bodrock wrote:O RLY? Tell me more about the new Spidey, Shaj....!
Simply put, fantastic, and what a Spider-Man movie should have been the whole time.
One of the greatest runs of Spider-Man, is the Ultimate Universe', and this borrows heavily from it. Teenage Peter is a pure joy to watch. He's hilarious, awkward, and still learning. Watching characters grow can't be beat.
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*edit.... I'm just say here, the movie, in general, is hilarious. Halfway through writing I found I was saying that virtually everyone and everything was funny. Because it is. So sorry if it get repetitive.
Happy Hogan makes his return
basically as his chaperone adding many lawl's. Aunt May is not 107 years old, which I greatly appreciate. I think maybe they almost went too young and too hot by casting Marisa Tomei, but that seems like a ridiculous thing to complain about. She was funny and cute. And her
last words in the movie steal the show. Peter's BFF Ned was a great sidekick, and had some really great moments. There were two ladies they focused on, Liz and Michelle. The one Peter fawns over is
Liz, who I found kind of one dimensional, and Michelle who was quite a bit ore interesting even if she was just playing the stereotypical weird girl.
Michael Keaton's Vulture. Am I the only one who liked the Robocop reboot? Keaton plays an amazing villain. He's intimidating, strong, unpredictable, and just all around badass. Not to mention the Vulture design was pretty scary. Bomber jacket with the feather'ish collar, green glowing eyes, giant robot wings (which do some crazy damage), and the robotic talons on his feet. They really give a good impression of the damage he can inflict.
It was a good story. In a nutshell:
Peter tries hard, gets a slightly inflated ego, gets slapped down, and straightens up. The action is enthralling, and the stuff in between is well paced. He has the same suit he was given in Civil War, which is
promptly taken away from him after a pretty bad dust-up with the Vulture on a sail barge which was only saved due to Ironmans intervention. I assumed the "Liz" of the movie was
Liz Allen, but as a strange twist she's actually Liz Toomes. As in, the Vulture's daughter. Once confronted with Peter in his civies taking his daughter to homecoming, the Vulture puts things together pretty quickly. He tells Peter to let it all go and leave him alone, or else. And sadly for Peter, he ditches his date to peruse the daddy-baddy. Naturally he ends up saving the day and proving himself to Stark, and nearly made a full Avenger. But he turns it down because he feels he's not as ready as he thought.
However there were some odd things too. Not bad per say, just odd.
There must have been a conscious decision made by the makers, to not cover his origin or powers. There wasn't ONE mention of Uncle Ben, specifically why he is costuming as Spider-Man, and the spider bite was only briefly mentioned. Also, no "Power/Responsibility" quotes. I assume because people are probably bored to death of re-watching said things and they wanted to avoid beating this certain dead horse. Everybody should just know by now.I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention the
Captain America PSA's. Sweet primus, they were hilarious. And the post credits moment is literally the best one of the entire Avengers franchise. That, and the entirety of the movie left me in stitches. I was actually sore from laughing so much.
I also find it very convenient that that figure started showing up on shelves the day after the BoGo deal ended.
