“The Amazing Spiderman” is astonishing! [MOVIE REVIEW]
Andrew Garfield stars as Spider-Man in Columbia Pictures’ “The Amazing Spider-man,” also starring Emma Stone. Photo by Jaime Trueblood/Columbia Pictures Industries “The Amazing Spiderman,” the rebooted franchise action film is so much more than the sum of its very adept and tantalizing parts. Miss Ritter, Peter Parker’s English teacher, states at the end of the film that although scholars have claimed that there are only a limited number of original stories in literature, she maintains that there is really only one. She may be right but oh, what a story director Marc Webb and writers Steve Kloves and James Vanderbilt have told! The base of the story, known to fans of the comic book and the previous franchise, is simple. High school student, Peter Parker, entrusted to the care of his aunt and uncle, is bitten by a spider and transformed into some kind of transgenic or perhaps bionic human with the flexibility of a Cirque du Soleil performer spinning webs of a graphene-like thread, an essentially imperceptible material of other worldly strength. Peter has a crush on the unobtainable, ultra cool Gwen, and a formidable nemesis in Dr. Curt Connors, his father’s former scientific…
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