penguinopolipitese

If I could I'd give this something in the high 6's. It's entertaining but I sort of felt like I walked in half way through the movie and had missed something... we just jumped straight in with little explanation of why things were happening. Because of this I'm still not 100% on if spiderman actually has powers anymore but it seems not. From what I could see, this movie is sort of like Iron Man goes to high school. There's a suit, there's a non-threatening ai who helps the user of the suit. But what makes spiderman special exactly? Tony Stark may not have super powers but at least he has the intelligence to make the damn iron man suit. I guess it brings up another avenue of story telling when he's given his power by another person but it just doesn't have the same gravity to me because this is something that can be easily taken away and then you're left asking why couldn't it be anyone in that suit. Maybe they were just sick of telling the same story for the 3rd time. I had a similar feeling when the newest hulk showed up in avengers. It's just like: we need a warm body to play this role so lets just slip him in and hope people accept it and we can make some more movies. It's great to have the fuller embodiment of that universe but at the same time I feel like I've been to this puppet show and it was better done before. This movie felt like it shouldn't have been a full fledged movie.

This movie I would probably give a score in the low to mid 70s. It's actually one of my favourites but it isn't some extraordinary masterpiece. It's one of those movies, however, that stands alone and is unique. I would describe it as a story book on film. All of the actors play their parts quite beautifully. The hanks/ryan pairing started out with this film and it is obvious why the formula continued successfully in later films. You've got for example Nathan Lane, Abe Vigoda, and Lloyd Bridges in just ridiculous and unexpected roles and the whole cast makes it fun. The whole absurd story manages to be work I think because like most good fiction it has a grounding in reality and then dramatizes it for effect. In the case of this film the dramatization is outlandish and crazy but it also makes it a lot of fun. I'd recommend this for a boring night where you just want to have some fun and aren't looking for something particularly mind blowing.