He’s a man in the suit, but a boy in high school. The exciting thing about Spider-Man has always been that it’s a coming-of-age tale. One is mildly shocked to find oneself experiencing real feelings in an actual drama, despite being in the middle of a cartoon. Their young love is quite moving, actually.Īlso surprisingly moving are the scenes with Peter’s Aunt May (Sally Field). Put Stone in any scene, any time, any place, and its value will go up. Now, the love story between Peter and Gwen is lovely. Throw in lots of web-slinging, explosions, and Osborn’s bloodshot eyes glaring at everything, and you pretty much have the synopsis. Add to that the fact that Parker’s girlfriend, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), is graduating high school and going off to England to study. So, so far we’ve got Harry’s Spidey bloodlust, Electro’s need for recognition, and then there’s Paul Giamatti’s mechanized “Rhino” villain. Harry’s convinced that the cure for his disease is Spider-Man’s spider-blood. The other main Spidey villain is Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), an old school-buddy with a toxic smirk and a toxic disease brought on by dad’s (Chris Cooper) meddling with science. He claims he’ll suck the whole city’s power so people can see what it’s like to be in his nobody world-a world of bad comb-overs and no ability to charm the ladies. All blue-faced and electricity-sucking and sparkly and bass-voiced. Later, back on the job, Max falls in a tank of bad CGI demonic electric eels. Max is techie-geek-nerd for the Oscorp Company, which, unbeknown to Max, begets all of Spider-Man’s many nemeses. So there goes The Amazing Spider-Man, web-slinging around Manhattan, and he runs into his self-avowed “No. The prevailing question is, should you see “The Amazing Spider-Man 2?” Yes, if you’re 14.
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But we’ll discuss the proper Spidey makeover later. This new whippersnapper Andrew Garfield has the Peter Parker hair-a massive bouffant of it. He was not your average teenage dude by any means he was a superhero. Everyone knew Spidey wasn’t the Hulk, but he did have impressive delts, traps, and quads. The comic-book Spider-Man of the 1960s and ’70s had a distinct thing that happened when he suited up: He shifted from suburban to urban.