I wish they'd give us something other than origin stories. Spider-Man has been running for fifty some years. Surely there are some other stories worth telling in there. It also seems incredibly stupid to reboot the franchise with the same villains who starred in the last reboot.

@1 Toby movies had: Green Goblin, Doc Oc, New Goblin (son), Sandman, and Venom.

Garfield movies have: 1) Lizard, 2) Green Goblin, Electro, Rhino.

That's only one repeat villain.

I'm sure this is an utter crap movie. But it's not because they are repeating villains.

Saw it...
Stinks
Stank
Stunk

I thought it was cool. It reminded me of the comics.

@2 I think @1 was talking about in the overall arc that's mapped out for the reboots. From what they have now, there will be 3 more repeat villains - Doc Oc and Sandman from the Sinister Six, and Venom. It's a dilemma that the X-Men prequel/faux-reboot faced too - reuse characters or draw from the pool of the totally obscure.

Anyway, the first Amazing Spider-Man was a dud, and I didn't have high hopes for this either.

More interested in the local film SharkNado 3: Orca's Revenge, and the SIFF presentation of How To Train Your Dragon 2 (in 3D).

Oh, btw, Nia Vardolous (sp?) is comin to Seattle for the SIFF Gay-la film

@2 They probably are doing better with villains than I give them credit.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2: You Have to Actively Try to Fuck Up a Movie Review This Bad

“Parker's parents, making them secret agents and genius inventors and otherwise Very Special People. This is a dumb idea.” – Agreed

“By making him a Luke Skywalker-style child of destiny, you're robbing the character of everything that makes him special.” – Agreed

“Characters either have simplistic motivations, or no motivation at all.” – Based on this quote I am concerned you don’t read comics.

“Another character transforms from a gloomy young adult to a raving lunatic with absolutely no gear-shifts [sic] in between.” – This is the second quote that leads me to believe that you are attempting to say the movie is a bad translation of the comic, with no knowledge of comic books, let alone this series.

“The central love affair in the film, between Peter Parker and Gwen is improbable at best” – Yes, that was the point. Not sure where you were trying to go with this. Also, fans never just call her “Gwen”

“There are no people in this movie, only action figures being moved about from set to set, with a very specific endgame in mind.” -- Honestly, have you ever read a comic book?

For a movie based on a comic your article is long. Long, boring and a cliché of a poor review of a comic book movie. It lacks creative zeal, a point, or any intellectual value. Based on the content of the review and the aimless structure, it seems fair to question if the writer saw the movie or just based their assumptions on other existing critical reviews and promotional materials. The editor of this online publication might want demand to see the this critic’s ticket stub to validate whether they saw the movie.

The movie is almost exactly like “Amazing Spider-Man” the comic. A comic known for six of the hokiest over the top villains in comic book history. There is a continuous bombardment of deus ex machine and wit. Just like in the comic. Amazing Spider-Man is not serious. He fights guys in cheesy power armor based on animals.

Batman and The Avengers have found good outlets in a pseudo-believable fantasy reality. However, that is not the world of “Amazing Spider-Man.” If you read Amazing Spider-Man, you realize that the villains in that series are just silly. If you are going to make a movie based on that series, turning it into “The Dark Knight” or “Man of Steel” is just blasphemy.

For people telling people to ’ leave your brain behind,’ that’s foolish. If you brought your brain to a movie about a man who dresses up in a spandex spider outfit to face enemies like “Hobgoblin and Electro” then you were a fool to waste your money. If you don’t like comic books, you shouldn't be going to see comic book movies and you damn well shouldn't complain when the comic book movie is too comic book.

The movie is fine. It does the silly series justice for the fans of that particular Spider-Man series. To the writer of this review, I would suggest you actually go see the movie now and come back to write a review. After all, it’s better than the new Superman, X-Men: Last Stand, Origins Wolverine or the third Spider-Man movie.

@9

Lol, fanboy created an account just to post about The Terrible Spooderman films.

The quality of the film doesn't really matter. It's far more lucrative for Columbia Pictures to continue making garbage than to sell back the rights to Marvel. Though I really do hope you are wrong about the Clone Saga thing. I happened to read up about that earlier today, and it convinced me that DC does not have a monopoly on horrible villain ideas, clumsy retcons, or wince-inducing writing.

@9: TL;DR: "yur wrong cuz im rite and you don agree."

I don't think you've read enough of Paul Constant's (that's "the writer" whose name you couldn't be bothered to scroll up to check) reviews or posts here on Slog to know that he absolutely does read comics, and doesn't shit on comic book movies simply for what they are.

@10
Actually, this review was just shit. I get annoyed when I read reviews that read like the writer just based their work on other reviews and what they "think a movie" is going to be like. If you're going to be published for writing movie reviews you should go see the movie. If this writer has seen the film, then they needs to do some research on how to write a review and possibly buy a book. A cruel review of a bad film you genuinely don't like is one thing; a cruel review that is as poorly written, boring and long as the film your panning is another. But, faking a review that is poor and critical of a movie is bullshit. This writer needs to go see the movie and come back and write the review they were paid for. Even if it's bad.

@4 Musta been really good weed because thats the only way that movie could have been made tolerable.

Who ever green lit this piece of shit (yeah, full on pure 100 percent shit) should be drug out in the town square and shot. They didn't even try to make a decent movie. They spent so much time trying to make "dark and gritty" spiderman in the last one (which sucked but was tolerable) and TOTALLY turned it into a combination camp/shlock fest worthy of Joel Shumacher. And what the fucking hell was up with that NY "I'm walkin' here!" meets white suburban kid trying to be street accent?

Paul is often over critical of summer blockbusters, but he is spot on here. Save your money.

Get a life you fucking losers. The fact that you all spent so much time ripping this film is a joke.
Stop going to Comic films any whining so much afterward.
Just sit at home jerking off to the original Star Wars films.

Assholes