It’s weird to think that just five years after the last spiderman film, that we should get or need a reboot. But that’s what we have in this film with Andrew Garfield taking over from Toby Maguire in the lead role. I must admit that I prefer Garfield to Maguire because I think that Garfield did the vulnerable and wimpy person thing much better than Maguire ever did. I also thought that the main problem with Spiderman 3 was that there were too many baddies which just got in the way. In this film all we have is the lizard guy played by Rhys Ifans. It was good how somethings that were in the first Spiderman in 2002 were used in this film but in a slightly different way. I thought that the way that Parker’s uncle (played brilliantly by Martin Sheen) was far more believeable. It was a shame when Sheen was written out as I am a huge fan of his and thought that he brought something to the story. Sally Field surprised me as the only other thing I saw her in was in Mrs Doubtfire (1993). She was...
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