This article is sound. Thumbs up. Good review. Gonna check this out this weekend.

To me the good parts of the film are when Spider-Man is swinging around New York and the fight scenes were pretty good. My biggest complaint is that there isn't a plot to the film there are 4 plots and how they are badly handled. You have the Electro plot, the Harry Osborn plot, the Gwen Stacy plot, and the missing parents plot and the film would kind of just be on one plot then drop it for another then drop that one for another and so on. Be it writers director or both to me they did a bad job handling all these plots. I felt I was watching 2 films crammed into one where say the Electro plot and the Gwen Stacy plot should have been this movie and the Harry Osborn plot and the missing parents plot should have been another movie. I feel this movie has the same issues that Iron Man 2 has that this movie wasn't made to be it's own movie it was made to be a vehicle to launch their own cinematic universe. Iron Man 2 had the same issues multiple loosely connected plots and to many villains with again to much stuff just there to set up for future movies.

More of a nitpick for me then anything I feel Garfield is a terrible Peter Parker way to cool and snarky for the nerd that is Peter Parker though he does a great Spider-Man. If they could somehow combine Tobey who got Peter Parker with Andrew's Spider-Man we would finally have the true rendition of Spider-Man on film.

I have other nitpicks like the dialogue wasn't that great, the score especially for Hans Zimmer was subpar the Spider-Man theme especially was bad because nothing about it said Spider-Man more of a techno Captain America theme with the rising trumpets. The scene in the plane was way to long and not really interesting I didn't need to see Richard Parker have a fist fight with a killer just have the plane blow up. Lastly Paul Giamatti was completely wasted in this film and the Rhino was just more crammed into this film and was terribly superfluous. I mean I don't think Giamatti was even given a script or he had no lines he was just told to act like a crazy Russian mobster a lot of his lines were gibberish. Rhino should have been cut from the film entirely.

@ pesmerga44

I agree I don't like his Peter Parker but I really like his Spider-Man. They need to fix his Peter.

Fun movie though.

I feel I'll actually enjoy #3 but the first two have been misses for me.

Good write up.
It's a shame this movie is getting the heat that it is.
The two main things riding against it are the inevitable comparisons to the Raimi franchise, and that it isn't a MCU movie.
you have to judge this film on it's own merits, and look at it objectively.
Spider-Man is my favorite Superhero hands down, and even I had criticisms about this flick. The thing is the stuff that's being complained about, is completely overshadowing the subtle stuff that's being overlooked.

A big one that no one is bringing up, is that it's DEAD OBVIOUS that Aunt May knows that Peter is Spider-Man. I personally thought it was a nice touch, and they don't throw it in your face every five minutes. You really have to pay attention to catch it.
It's when Aunt May is in Peter's room after seeing the big collage/jigsaw puzzle made concerning his parents and the whole emotional conversation she has with him. The way she looks up at him, and says
"...even when we keep secrets from the ones we love Peter"
She basically says in no uncertain terms that she knows, like any mother or aunt knows their child.

Also near the end after Gwen dies and months pass without Peter being
Spider-Man. He's in the kitchen watching the news reports about Rhino, and Spider-Man's absence. May looks over, and it's obvious he wants to be there and do something. She just casually says, "Wonder where that Spider-guy is? hope is okay wherever he is. they could really use him right now."

Subtle stuff like that is what won me over.
"Birthday candles" is birthday candles, but subtexually, there's alot more going on.

Other points to mention are, Peter could've saved Harry with his blood, and he realizes it when watching the video of his father concerning the Spider DNA. Again, he doesn't scream the exposition down the hallway, but it's there.

And Gwen made her own choice to be with Peter and help him beat Electro, after he tried to prevent her from being there.
Ultimately resulting in her demise by Goblin.
"Nobody makes my choices for me, I make my own choices Peter!"

It's worth a second watch for sure.
If anyone does, look out for those, it really lessened the skepticism, at least for me.

But it's amazing how good his Spider-Man is! I loved the scenes when Spider-Man is on screen. Truly.

I guess I'll take that for what's it worth.

@theThing

If they could combine Tobey McGuire's Peter Parker with Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man I think we would finally have a true blue rendition of Spider-Man on film.

It was an average film at best. The film was not amazing or spectacular and the amount of good things that happened with in the film did not even balance out the bad.

Also the fact that this film has so many plots does not help the film that much. I actually prefer TASM over TASM 2.

@ pesmerga44

Maguire's Parker was too lackluster and almost had no personality, but start with that and give him personality and a bright spunk but not an asshole and you have Peter.

I think we'll see a better Peter in the next film : )

@HankPymp

I am so glad someone else caught onto Aunt May lol. It was a theory the first time I watched it and on the second view it solidified it. As for helping Harry yeah they didn't do a really good job on explaining the consequences of not giving Harry his blood. Saying that, they didn't really need to I am smart enough to realize a bad company like Oscorp would just use it as a weapon. If they did explain the consequences people would have said "WOW THEY DIDN'T NEED TO EXPLAIN WHY PETER'S RADIOACTIVE IS DANGEROUS LOL WOW TALK ABOUT SPOON FEEDING THE AUDIENCE." This franchise is all about damned if you do and damned if you don't.