I have to put it out there that the reboot of this franchise is way too soon. When they rebooted Batman - more than enough time had gone by and they were doing it in a VERY different and darker way. This reboot is coming out ten years after the original one with two sequels to the original one having been made in the last decade. Granted, I thought Spider-Man 3 was very disappointing and would ultimately lead to them rebooting as opposed to just throwing Spider-Man 4 out there but not this soon. And they only made minor tweaks to the story. Just needed to state that for the record before going on about the movie.
The movie was awesome. The cast was great. Andrew Garfield was great for Spidey. I liked him a million times more than Tobey Maguire. And Emma Stone is just awesome. She might be my favorite actress at this point. She's just entertaining no matter what she does. The effects were pretty cool and the story developed well. Unfortunately, due to the closeness to the original Spider-Man I can't help but compare the two. I feel that the development story and tightness of it was better with the original but the cast of this one was a thousand times better. It's not that the story wasn't good in this one. It just wasn't as good as the original.
All of this ranting aside - I still absolutely loved this movie. It's a great "alternate" telling/reboot even if it was too soon. And in a year overly crowded by subpar movies or ones that are just there, this movie is easily second only to The Avengers in 2012 so far.
