The Amazing Spider-Man(2012)
Run time : 136 min
Action - Adventure Fantasy
Director: Marc Webb
Writers: James Vanderbilt (screenplay), Alvin Sargent(screenplay), and 4 more credits »
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans
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Run time : 136 min
Action - Adventure Fantasy
Director: Marc Webb
Writers: James Vanderbilt (screenplay), Alvin Sargent(screenplay), and 4 more credits »
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans
The Amazing Spider-Man(2012) Release date: 3 July 2012
Peter Parker has it glued to his ear for much of the movie, even when he’s Spider-Man. Either that, or he’s playing games on it. It’s in those moments, when he’s lounging on a giant web passing time with a puzzle app, or crouched on a parapet thousands of feet above Manhattan, being told by Aunt May to remember to buy some eggs on the way home, that the 21st century big-screen Spidey resonates in harmony with the Spidey that Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created 50 years ago. Even when he’s hunting down villains, he’s still just a teenager, living in the real world, dealing with everyday problems, and the film captures that enduring Spidey spirit perfectly.
The Amazing Spider-Man(2012)
It just as rapidly quashes any doubts about the wisdom of telling the Spider-Man origin story again. This is no mere remake. Neither is it quite the “untold story” the pre-publicity promised. It is – to reclaim a phrase that’s far too overused these days, but is perfectly apt here – a reimagining. Admittedly, this could also be interpreted as “trampling all over canon”, but with the comics industry rebooting its universes in “52 Ultimate” ways (or whatever) with alarming regularity, you can hardly criticise it for that.
The Amazing Spider-Man(2012)
But where Webb really excels is in the character moments. He directs the romance with charm; he directs the scenes with Parker learning about his powers with a perfect mix of humour and paranoia; he directs cheesy moments (and there are a couple) with such brazen gusto that you feel like cheering.
The Amazing Spider-Man(2012)
Which, sadly, is where the film goes awry. The Amazing Spider-Man has a major flaw that also hampered the first Raimi Spidey film – its villain. Rhys Ifans is fine as Curt Connors, and does his best as The Lizard, but there‘s nothing special about him as an opponent. He’s the well-meaning scientist who overreaches himself, and becomes a ranting supervillain. His evil plot is a one-line pitch that’s been used by countless supervillains before and leads to a big climax that, while exciting, has the whiff of over-familiarity.
He’s not even a particularly well-visualised villain, blandly designed and often falling foul of some of the film’s less convincing CG. It’s a real shame that with so much invention going into the rest of this movie makeover the villain feels so off-the-shelf.
But as the film to kickstart the franchise afresh, The Amazing Spider-Man more than succeeds. It may not have the non-stop action and spectacle of Avengers Assemble, but it does have characters you can fall in love with, and bags of charm. You feel the series is in safe hands with Webb, Garfield and Stone. And in an extra scene in the end credits, it also delivers an enticing cliffhanger that should definitely leave you wanting more…Dave Golder
The film also tackles Parker's love story with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy, whose father is the very police captain tasked with catching Spider-Man.
Martin Sheen and Sally Field play Parker's well-meaning uncle and aunt, who do their best to keep him from going off the rails.
Garfield was keen to follow their guidance -- as actors and mentors.
"They're incredible, they're just fine actors, and people who live well and live purely and with love, and that's very inspiring `cause you know it's rare that you find someone who's not only a fantastic actor but a fantastically beautiful person," Garfield says, noting he took "more life advice than acting advice" from them.
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