What a disappointment... Squeezed between the awesomeness of The Avengers & the anticipation of The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spiderman looked to be bringing us a grittier, more character driven take on our hero with Mark Webb (500 Days of Summer) in the directors chair, and Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone in tow. Unfortunately we instead have to suffer through nearly 2 & a half hours of pouting & gesturing from Garfield (It's like he's imitating Edward from Twilight I swear...) & a whole bunch of action scenes that are nothing you haven't seen done better before (& in better movies). And why does everyone seem to know Peter Parker is Spiderman? Isn't his identity meant to be secret?!? Spidey seems to spend more time in this film with his mask off, than he does with his mask on. I'm sure given his last name Webb thought he was born to make this film, but seriously, I preferred Spiderman 3... & that's really saying something! Stay home, pull that copy of Spiderman 2 off your shelf, and save your money for Batman in a few weeks. You'll be glad you did.