This movie is only based on the idea and the parts of Spiderman. The creators took Spiderman's concept and mixed it together to a new story, where everything of the Spiderman universe is completely mixed up, so far, that not much of the original idea remains. Almost every part of Spiderman's story and every character has been altered beyond recognition just to fit a new, unbelievable and lame story. Suddenly, you have a totally new background of Peters life, you have Peters mentor from high school as his opponent and Stacy father as chief of the NYPD. So, just everything mixed up to a new and not very tasteful Spiderman cocktail. The only character that improved compared to the old trilogy is Uncle Ben, Martin Sheen plays him very believable and not with that much pathos. But that's about it; after roughly half of playing time, when it comes to the showdown, it gets extremely boring. At least is has some enjoyable scenes in the first half. So, everybody who thinks that Reimi's Spiderman was too far away from the comic don't be surprised to get a shock when seeing this version, it has not much to do with the original. But apparently, today's movies are made for the new generation of movie-goers, which has no relation to the the origins of comics (or to any origin at all) and just look for some action. You see it every where, Star Trek e.g., and this is the same. Very simple popcorn cinema for the "new generation".