The Amazing Spider-Man – A Second Opinion

By: Too many to list—check out the review, then check out IMDB afterward.

The Story: Boy meets girl.  Girl likes boy.  Boy saves girl from mutant lizard.  Classic.

The Review: I’ve never seen (500) Days of Summer, but believe me when I say I have friends who are so obsessed with that movie that I feel like I’ve seen it—multiple times.  I gather it’s a wistful tale of love found and lost, of a hapless guy trying to win the heart of his dream girl.  Just that tagline alone should explain to some extent the film’s success.  Every decent guy can empathize with the story, and every decent girl has a puppy-dog compassion for it.

In Amazing Spider-Man, director Marc Webb may be capturing the spirit of the film that brought him to mainstream prominence, and certainly the script has shades of (500) Days all over it.  Again, I never even saw the latter film, but the fact that it cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel as the leads already tells me volumes about the quirky, finely-tuned awkwardness that movie must have generated.