The first hour of the movie is pretty much the same as the first Spider Man (2002), the second hour isn't very different too. They just replace Mary Jane with Gwen and Norman with Dr Conner. Sure the relationships between charcaters were a LITTLE different, but that's it

I'm a big fan of the Spider Man trilogy, which I have seen time and time again, and so it was weird to see a different cast in this movie. Old cast was way better in my opinion.

Overal it's an entertaining movie, but the ones who have seen the other Spider Man movies will not enjoy this movie very much.

Andrew Garfield is hot hot hot.

Andrew Garfield is the best Spider-Man. Fight me.

Better Spiderman than the last time...better girl. Awsome effects, and a better story. All in all a great comic book adaption :D

It's been less then 24h I came out of the cinema & I'm still stunned by it.
That was the best 3D experience I had after "Avatar" - just awesome.

I pretty much loved every mismatch to the old one and I am surprised how the writers pulled out this great new perspective on quite the same story.
I was very sceptic about Andrew Garfield when I heared he was casted but I think he did an amazing job. Was he a better spidy then Maguire - hmmm it depends... each one has his advantages, so it really up to you.
But as @MajorMercyFlush already wrote (great review by the way) the new Spider-Man is more dark, also he is more direct, more offensive & less sensible.
I was blown away by the movements and the incredible CGI of the Lizard also the humor was a great combination and I think it fits the original Spider-Man animated series very well.

Oh yeah and I loved Emma Stone - she is just one of the reasons I love the new Spider-Man more ;)

Light years better than the Tobey Maguire era.

As much as Spidey isn't a superhero I particularly like, this is the wise cracking geeky genius teenager personified.

This is a very enjoyable film with spot on casting (minus Emma Stone not being MJ, what's that all about?) and a very zippy pacing that works well. Sally Field and Martin Sheen are excellent, as is Dennis Leary.

What lets this down from being great is - motivation.

He gets bit and develops powers but doesn't even blink before he sets about using them. The villain turns evil straight away despite seemingly not being a bad guy.


So it's little things like that which bear down on the enjoyment of the second half. But the first half is excellent. The last quarter owes a lot to the Batman Begins school of character growth. It's just that section there that robs us of any real emotional attachment to the motivations.

But this is a proper film and needs a proper watch. Not the cheap, poorly cast, Disneyland missteps of the Maguire era.


7.75/10

Gwen Stacy and Emma Stone <3

It was even better after watching it a second time!

Good enough. Emma Stone is love.

Kinda like the green lantern with CG that was just as good, story slightly better, and i didn't leave totally disappointing but I still felt like saying "meh". The tone was a little disjointed for what it was and the character development surprisingly lacked for a movie that was just about as long as gladiator...

the special effects are great

If you haven't already seen the Raimi movie from 2002, go watch it instead. If you have seen it, then this probably won't live up to it and you will be left feeling a little underwhelmed. It's fair to say that for anyone over the age of eighteen, this movie will seem rather half-hearted and senseless; for those under eighteen, this movie will probably be the greatest super hero flick ever. Yes, it's a movie that will divide opinions, primarily on the sole reason for its existence. Not a bad, or a badly made flick, by any means… just a pointless one.

In the sake of diversity Homecoming made too many changes in my opinion. In this film there may be a lot of dei-ja vu from the 2002 movie. But it’s also as entertaining.
The good is the cast, Flash Thompson more like he was written in comics. The action is fine and I love the musical score by the late great James Horner.
Homecoming to me has less exciting action as Spider-Man 1-2 and yes Amazing Spider-Man 1. It also made MJ homeless looking and Flash Thompson a twerp. That this Flash Thompson would have beat up.

I am a huge fan of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy, although I think Spider-Man 3 was bad I especially like the first film, which is one of my favorite superhero films. Since I saw the trailer of The Amazing Spider Man it didn't caught my attention, I just didn't care. Spider Man is one of my favorite superheros and I didn't care? Well, maybe it was a sign... I saw it now and as I thought I would, I am disappointed.

One of the most important parts of Spider Man's story is when he gets bitten, he learn his skills and makes his suit. In this film all of that is so rushed! Other scenes with no relevance are longer than what's really the important key in Peter Parker's life.

We spent most of the film trying to figure it out what happened to Peter's parents and we never saw that. Uncle Ben died I didn't felt the emotion required for that kind of scene and Peter seemed to overcome his uncle's death so quickly. More emotinal depth was needed in the story.

I am not the biggest Tobey Maguire fan but I think he got what was required for being Spider Man and I liked him! Andrew Garfield is not bad in the role he is cool and stuff but is not as good as Maguire. He is a super confident Peter Parker, I would like to have seen a much more nerdy and awkward guy, so unfortunately he didn't convinced me much. I love Emma Stone and for much that I love her I didn't like to see her as Gwen. I must be the one of the few people that didn't felt the chemistry between Garfield and Stone. The romance between Peter and Gwen seemed so forced and lame.

Everything that is presented to us in this film was already seen before, this was in some way retelling the story that we already saw in Raimi's 2002 Spider Man with just a few new elements. In my opinion there was not point of retelling this story again. If Marvel wanted to do a new Spider Man film, why they didn't do a Spider Man 4 but without Tobey Maguire in Spider's role?

Overall, as I thought, it was a disappointment. The film has some good scenes but the bad overcomes the good and I don't know if I wanna see this year's new film, the trailer looks like a videogame and if it's going to continue like this I prefer not to... I'll wait for the reviews first.