Contrary to a mini-blog review I read a few days ago, I found that this was a very good movie...not quite as good as the first movie in the previous series...but very good.
I guess what surprised me was the fact that it was not a remake in any sense of the word of the previous 2002 Spider Man which starred Tobey Maguire. Oh, many of the characters were the same but the origins of the web slinger were somewhat different from the first movie. And Andrew Garfield was a very different character. Thinner. Less of a baby face. Barely able to pass as a high school student. But, wait, I still like his characterization.
For me, after a while the computer generated graphics occasionally got in the way of the story. That's why the first half of the movie was a bit slow for many, I'm sure, but it was laced with a lot of character development. Gwen, Uncle Ben, Aunt May, Flash Thompson, and even Curt Connors (the Lizard) were well developed characters before the computer graphics captured the movie. But even that wasn't so bad. We didn't see the movie in 3D but that was OK. (I tend to dislike most of the 3D movies I saw. It's not worth the extra $2.00 or so and definitely not worth the discomfort of the glasses.)
This movie had Spidey struggling with identify issues and even the horrible promise that he has to make at the end. I'm all in favor of keeping promises but in this case the promise is just too demanding for life itself.
I was surprised at how many people knew Spiderman's secret identity. Well, perhaps it's difficult when you are starting out to get your secret identity in place. But, again, I forgive this as part of normal character development.
Well, I best not pick apart the movie anymore. It's worth seeing. It's enjoyable. It's certainly not dirty or suggestive. And if you don't learn a couple of moral lessons from the movie, what were you looking for?
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