Beginning After Sam Raimi’s wonderful trilogy, I don’t know why it was necessary to restart the franchise about Marvel’s most famous superhero, instead of simply entrusting the continuation to another director, even with a certain cast recast. Marak Webb really made a complete rebuke of history, radically changing all the details.
The new Peter Parker is no longer a loser and a nerd, but a bright skater photographer with a hipster camera. With him openly talking girls, he sympathizes with the loss of his uncle, even the main school bully, and with the advent of special abilities, the local Peter does not disdain to do inhuman numbers, while remaining kind of without suspicion of super-power.
It’s funny to hear the creators rely on realism and gloom in the concept, even trying to do tricks with real actors and stuntmen, avoiding computer models as much as possible. Because of the children's fairy tale music, suitable only for a family stupid comedy, a lot of episodes look ridiculous and inappropriate. Any hint of realism disappears with the appearance of mutating lizards and incomprehensible properties of the developed web, the holding machine, like on cables, is elementary and easily torn.
The main achievement of Raimi was the explanatory mutation of the protagonist, when we were clearly shown why he is kept on the walls, as well as the use of spider glands invented by James Cameron (thereby, yes) instead of the stupid inventions of Setemets (web shooters), which really related Parker to arachnids and allowed him to control his power and variants of the web. With Webb, Parker himself invents a web throwing device, making the character, albeit surprisingly canonical in this regard (given how everything else has changed), but making the eternal and most important epic fail, both comics and animated series about Spiderman.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone struggle to fit into the entourage of high school teenagers, and nothing works. The first wildly overplays all emotions and does not have the slightest chemistry with the heroine, and Stone does wooden portray a nerd girl, trying to compete with Parker brains. The very participation of Gwen instead of Mary Jane is already a huge minus, and although Stone looks better than Bryce Dallas Howard on the same part in the triquel, the entire abundance of empty and silent mise-en-scene, including the final stretched tearcrusher, looks hapless and completely unnecessary for the picture.
Uncle Ben and Aunt May have similar casting issues. Martin Sheen is painfully unconvincing in his revelations, never once mentioning Spider-Man’s main theme of power and responsibility! The whole movie is waiting for the final playback of the voice message, hoping to hear the main phrase in the original of the hero, and Webb does not even use this! Not to mention the lack of wrestling, costume design options, a completely ridiculous story with the murder of an uncle and the search for tattooed criminals, and Aunt May in the rebut not even graying, fitting more like Parker’s mother and completely does not fit into the proper canonical image.
The only actor in the whole movie was the great and gorgeous Rhys Ivans, the only serious reason to watch the movie. However, even the image of Connors was not worked out, he seems to have no wife and son in this universe to somehow develop the drama part of the character, but the Lizard is the boring villain of Spider, and the original, more humanized by facial features, looks funny and incomprehensible grimace taken instead of a long-faced lizard-like form.
In fact, the film was not even a reshoot of Spider-Man, but looks like a reworking of the film Batman: The Beginning, with the same boring long-term construction-becoming, the main character with gadgets and similarly an empty villain who decided to launch poison into urban neighborhoods from supposedly good intentions. And all under the same mask of supposedly "realism" and the plausibility of a harsh life, in no way fitting the film into what it so diligently tries to seem. At the same time, the plot of the villain-mentor was exploited in the previous parts, especially successfully unfolding in the second “Spider”, here looking like a tracing and a copier from there. And besides, the eyes irritate some ridiculous imitations of predecessors, in the spirit of the arrogant scene stolen from the "Wolverine" of the collapse of everything in a row at the sink.
A new costume design, a new story of becoming, a new spider bite (in the neck instead of the arm!), and everything in a new way, but everything is so inferior to its predecessor that you wonder why Webb is so deviating from the canon, striving just to differ much more than to strive to tell a story. And at the same time, the film repeats itself in ways that do not need to be repeated, makes the canon where it is just worth changing, and repeats previous film adaptations in places that could be adapted in a new way and better presented.
Raimi told the story of growing up and becoming, while Webb just tramples on the spot, dressing acrobat hipster in colorful spandex. However, this may be the problem of the script and the authors, and Mark is only trying to pull out immeasurably sagging and leaky plot on heroism and visual effects. That’s just the effects in Raimi’s paintings were much better, impressed many times stronger and even villains came across much more interesting.
However, for the most part, we still have a not-so-bad Spider-Man movie. Yes, in many ways unsuccessful cast, inappropriate music and indistinct script, but still an abundance of flights, superheroism (albeit on a small scale). The re-design of the costume is not as bad as it could be, Lizard, although with a flat face, but not rarely served in the style of a “horror movie”, as in the scene on the bridge or in the laboratory, when Gwen hides in the closet, watching the actions of the monster, a couple of times appears in a medical coat for the fans of the character, successfully made in terms of transformation and claws.
There are regular references to Norman Osborne and the Daily Bugle newspapers, Stan Lee cameos, get shot. The Spider-Man universe is trying to be worked out in detail, expanding as far as possible beyond the bounds of the Connors-Lizard story, and this is commendable. The action scenes are also not bad, but the spectacular and spectacular fight at school, in many ways surpasses the very weak final action on the tower. And although this is only the beginning of a new story, but it would be better to shoot a sequel, albeit with other actors, but without returning to school everyday life and the history of Parker becoming a superhero!
As a result, the reboot of “Spider-Man” is not as bad as you might expect, but still not necessary and inferior to even a weak triquel from Raimi, and certainly two beautiful first parts. The new caste is not organic, the music is worse than nowhere, the plot is extremely in vain remade, and the storylines are too superficial and conditional, including in technical terms. But Webb is still a good director, who managed to create a colorful and superhero blockbuster, which you can watch, at least for comparison or that would not be boring passing the evening. And let the sequels be much better, maybe even to interesting villains finally come.
6 out of 10
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