The Amazing Spiderman

…shouldn’t be called “Amazing”. Maybe “The Usual Spiderman.” This feels like a TV movie version of a Spiderman movie, with none of the gravitas of the Sam Raimi movies. (I still maintain that Spiderman 2 is one of the best superhero movies ever made.) Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are appealing leads, but they’re both WAY too old and sophisticated. It’s like watching John Travolta and Olivia Newton John in Grease all over again. They could be teachers! It’s not so much that it’s a “bad” movie. There’s nothing wrong with it, per se. I’m sure the kids will like it. But it’s just a shame that Spiderman is no longer Jesus.