Went to see this movie last night with my husband and son, L, who is a massive Marvel and superhero fan, so in honour of this, I am letting L write some of the review for this film.
IMDB says: Peter Parker runs the gauntlet as the mysterious company Oscorp sends up a slew of supervillains against him, impacting on his life.
Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, Never Let Me Go) reprises his role as Peter Parker, as does Emma Stone (The Help, Easy A) as Gwen Stacey. Jamie Foxx (Django, Ray) is Max Dillon a mild-mannered electrician for Oscorp who turns into a powerhouse after an accident at work. Thinking that he has died, the Oscorp management covers it up, but then Max comes back to life as a full-on candidate for anger management. When Spiderman fails to help him, even though he previously told him that he was 'his eyes and ears,' Electro believes he has betrayed him.
Daniel DeHaan (Chronicle, Kill Your Darlings) plays Peter's old friend Harry Osborne who returns following the death of his father. Learning that he is dying and the cure to his illness may be in Spiderman's blood, he asks Peter for his help. Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Lincoln) reprises her role as Aunt May, but sadly her plotline is too small.
Paul Giamatti (Sideways, Saving Private Ryan) also takes a turn as villain turned bad-buy Rhino and Marton Csokas (The Lord of the Rings, The Bourne Supremacy) appears somewhat briefly in a couple of scenes as Dr Kafka, but both actors are over-the-top, as is the film in general for me. I know a man who can behave like a spider is not realistic, but you can buy into that so long as all the other parameters seem possible, sadly most of the action (some is in matrix-esque slow-mo) just isn't believable. Nor does it help that the romance between Gwen and Peter seems to have been lifted straight out of the first Twilight movie.
It is not just the action and romance either, Spiderman's jokey asides seem to have grown into annoying one-liners that would turn off most Spidey fans, let alone Electro, but it seems that this is the characters from the comics. According to my son, the actors all play true to the comics and so I am thinking maybe Director Marc Webb was going for this in his vision.
L, my son, thinks that if you are a comic fan you will love this movie because it follows the original comic storylines for Spiderman very well. He feels it is quite obvious that they are setting up the plot lines for the sinister six in a future movie as most of the characters have a hint towards them in this one, for example the rhino, beetle and Dr octopus outfits seen in Oscorp armoury room.
As my son loved this movie, I can probably recommend it for comic fans and teenage boys, but for everyone else, not so much.
More cheese than a Stan Lee one-liner. 5/10
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ReplyDeleteA shame you didn't enjoy the film - I haven't seen it yet but hope to when pot off as well as Godzilla - although wasn't too keen on first one(too slow) - should have left it with Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire!