Mike's Review: This is a must see movie. I loved how the story line progressed as well as stays true to the Peter-Parker / Spider-Man story lines I grew up reading. I actually saw this movie on opening day and have been thinking about how I was going to write the review this whole time.
I knew before I even saw this movie they were going to kill off Gwen Stacy. You could say my spider-sense was tingling. It just had to happen if the movie was going to stay true to the comic books. I was just hoping they wouldn't to give the story a little twist in the end.
I think because I was wishing they wouldn't kill her off, and then the fact that they do, kind of deflated the movie for me. But on the other hand I was happy they did kill her off, because I knew then, they were staying true to the story line, and also paving the way for the next movie, and the introduction of Mary Jane into Peter's life.
The special effects were incredible for Electro, the way they made him all most translucent in some scenes and then when he turned into just pure electrical energy was awesome. On the other hand the Rhino suit at the end was a joke. In the comics the Rhino had an actual rhino type of hide...not some kind of robot suit. They could have put a little more effort into that one.
Best Scene: There was great spider-man humor through out, and I enjoyed watching him tinker with his web shooters just as he did in the comics but the final battle scene in the electrical field was amazing.
Mike's Rating: Of course its a must see! And I will be going again to see it as well.
Bean's Review: Good movie. Kept my attention. I really like Andrew Garfield as Spider-man. The inclusion of humor in the storyline is well done. Having never been a follower of the Spider-man comics, I am not familiar with all of the “evil” characters Spider-man battles. I also was not aware of 2 love interests for Spider-man. Knowing that Gwen was going to die, I was not that upset when she did die in the movie.
The part that was most moving for me was the scene with Aunt May and Peter in his bedroom, when Aunt May was telling him what she knew about Peter’s father and that she always thought of Peter as her son.
The Jamie Foxx character was different and I
thought he did a good job in portraying an electrified goon. Paul
Giamanti was not even recognizable as the Rhino character, which
character I thought was just silly. Over all very entertaining movie. I also liked the elusion to X-Men. Very cute.
Best scene: besides the one with Aunt May and
Peter mentioned above, the scene in which the original Spider-man music
was playing.
Bean’s Rating: Full price ticket
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A.C.'s Review: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 is the follow up in the perhaps too soon rebooted SPIDER-MAN series from SONY pictures.
A quick bullet list of what the movie did right.
*Continued
to develop the Gwen/Peter storyline instead of rushing straight to Mary
Jane like the previous Sam Raimi/Toby McGuire series.
*
Made Gwen’s death much more visually stunning than simply throwing her
off the Brooklyn Bridge like the Green Goblin did in The Amazing
Spider-man issue #121 (in
a nice touch the time of Gwen’s death in the clock tower is shown to be
1:21 and they nicely recreated the panel of Spidy holding Gwen’s body
right out of the comic down to her exact outfit.
*Electro was a sympathetic villain with a nice story arc on how he got to be the way he was.
Now for what it did wrong:
*The
Harry/Peter friendship was so rushed that it was laughable when Peter
called Harry his ”Best Pal”. It needed at least another movie to
develop.
*A
lot of time was spent setting up SONY’s planned spin off movie THE
SINISTER SIX with glimpses of Doc Ock arms, Vulture’s Wings, The RHINO
armour and an introduction
to a Felicia who could only be Felicia Hardy the Black Cat of the
comics.
*Peter’s
father was a working class scientist who could afford a secret
underground lab complete with hydraulics lift the lab in a train car
from out of the ground.
(Though the film did make me curious as to if these abandoned subway
stations really exist)
Overall
it was a decent movie and entertaining enough but it suffers from not
being in the MARVEL/DISNEY cinematic universe because those movies are
so rich with
their shared history and interconnected heroes; It feels like an
alternate universe straight out of the comics when you don’t have any
references to the AVENGERS or Stark Tower being seen in New York. Not
the movies fault but it is what it is.
Best Scene: Peter trying to rescue Gwen as she is falling.
A.C.'s Rating: Matinee
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