Directed By: Marc Webb
Written By: Steve Ditko, Stan Lee, James Vanderbilt
With the Amazing Spiderman on lease in the big screen, many have different opinions about the renovation on the existing blueprint.
10 years ago, when Tobey Maguire starring as the arachnid hero and Kristen Dunst as his love interest, Mary Jane, opened to rave reviews. Earning an unheard of $114 million its first weekend alone, the first film in director Sam Raimi's trilogy shattered box office reviews. The response of the general audience was hyper, hence uplifting the character and popularity of the super hero. Critics thought it would be hard to compete. But The Amazing Spider-Man, with The Social Network's Andrew Garfield in the lead and Emma Stone as girlfriend Gwen Stacy, is garnering as good reviews as the first. Some writers and critics, but not all, even like it better than the original.
The story starts off with child Peter and his parents, who, after a break-in at their house endangering Dad's scientific secrets, rush Peter over to Uncle Ben and Aunt May's house for safekeeping. As he became a teenager, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father in uncle Ben’s basement which leads him to a quest to understand his parents' disappearance - leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
The scenes to look out for in the movie is the transformation. Having been bitten by a genetically evolved spider, Parker goes into a delirious, feverish state, pop-eyed with anxiety and over-excitement as his body assumes new strength and the ability to hang upside down. Without knowing what he is doing, Parker semi-accidentally beats up around half a dozen menacing guys in a subway carriage while stammering and apologizing like a New York Hugh Grant. At home, he virtually destroys his bathroom before learning his own strength. He invents a watch which shots out web like fibre which holds him up in the sky. The first person view of the spidey is being shown, which gives the audience a thrill. The terrible fate of Uncle Ben, and Peter's own concomitant guilt, is sharply sketched out.
“It is a very good movie to watch until and unless you expect too much from it” says Vivek, a student in Lambton College, Toronto. Roger also commented “It’s a more serious Spiderman movie”. The crowd has different things to say about the movie, it's time you check it out yourselves.
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