The Movie: The Amazing Spider-Man

        

           Hey everyone! On Saturday, I watched the new movie, The Amazing Spider-Man, which is based on the Marvel comic hero. This film was directed by Marc Webb and Spider-Man/Peter Parker is portrayed by actor Andrew Garfield. The movie starts off with a young Peter Parker with his family, but when his father's office is broken into, he is taken to his aunt and uncle's house. He still lives with them during his high school years, but Peter wants to learn more about his mother and father and what happened to them. He finds out that a close colleague to his father was a man named Dr. Curt Connors and tries to visit him by acting as an intern. While he is exploring the area, he comes across a lab with thousands of genetically modified spiders and accidentally gets bit. He gets turned into Spider-Man and has the powers of shooting webs and sticking to walls. Peter uses these new powers to try to stop crimes, but eventually gets into trouble. Once, when he was sent to the principals office for destroying a basketball backboard, his Uncle Ben has to change work shifts and Peter is ordered to pick up his Aunt May. Peter forgets and later storms off when he receives a scolding from his uncle. His uncle follows him but then accidentally gets shot by  a robber with a gun and dies in Peter's arms. Meanwhile, Dr. Connors uses the drug formula on himself to recreate his arm. The formula, which had lizard DNA in it turns Connors into a full grown human-lizard. Connors uses the drug on himself many more times and thinks the drug was the solution to human problems. He plans to turn everyone in the city into lizards, but Spider-man tries to stop him. If you want to watch the whole thrilling tale, you should definitely watch the movie. The film was very well made and the animation parts fit well into the parts. All the climbing, webs, and fighting was very realistic and the actors played their parts well. Even the human-lizard somehow made the film come alive. The set the actors acted on was well made and especially the  sewer scene. I really liked how Spider-Man shot the webs into each hole and how the web bounced every time something moved on it. It was a well created scene and it was used scientifically. The storyline also fit together well and detailedly described the important scenes. In the end, there weren't many questions that I thought should have been answered besides "What happens next?", the usual one (there is a sequel). Also, this film was rated PG-13, but I think younger kids can also watch this movie. The little fighting they have towards the end is not at all gory or brutal. There is a little blood and killing but it isn't gruesome. Over all, this movie is great and I strongly recommend it to all. 

-Rajee