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Friday, 27 July 2012

The Amazing Spider-Man



Release Date: 03 July 2012
Age Certificate: 12A
Running Time: 136 mins
Director: Marc Webb
Writers: James Vanderbilt
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans 

Spidey returns. Some say it was too soon, but others say thank God! They needed someone to come and reboot Spiderman and wipe away the horrible thoughts which still loom large in our heads from ‘Spiderman 3’. God that film was bad. In ‘The Amazing Spiderman’, Andrew Garfield plays the shy role of Peter Parker. He does this wonderfully; he shows the shyness, geekeness and the spideness well. Andrew had big shoes to fill; Tony Miguire was a great Spiderman. But Andrew Garfield was amazing; he exceeded every expectation that I had as well as everybody else. Emma Stone played Gwen Stacey (Peter’s girlfriend), their relationship was believable, unlike Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson’s love story in The Hunger Games. In my eyes it was unbelievable and didn't seem real.


I like this film because it tries to show who Peter Parkers dad really was, Richard Parker, and how he has contributed to his life. The film does this surprisingly well. I thought it would be a short part in the story but no it wasn't  Parker found little clues of what his dad really did for a living. The story doesn't take any huge risks; you will not be surprised by what happens in the first 50 minutes if you've seen the first film, some people could say it was a drama at the start rather than a family film. For sure, it takes a darker role of Spider-Man, especially if you look at the previous Sam Raimi’s Spidey films. You could say that it is trying to take the feel of the Batman trilogy. I would deny that; as it still takes a light hearted side of the Spider-Man story, like what all Marvel films do. I believe that The Amazing-Spider-Man is a slight improvement of Sam Raimi’s first Spidey, even though that was a good Marvel film.


The director’s name of The Amazing Spider-Man is Marc Webb; it was bound to be good.

7.5/10

Spidey's trailer is right here:


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