Anyway. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are probably my two favourite up and comers in Hollywood, so I was looking forward to seeing them together. By the way, is it concerning anyone else how most of Hollywood's main movie stars, who have dominated everything for the past 15 years, are now heading into their 50s? And there doesn't seem to be enough established younger actors in the generation below to replace them? And we might have to keep watching Cameron Diaz be the main star in a rom com till she is 60, because Emma Stone and Mila Kunis can't be in all of them? It certainly worries me.
I am going to review the characters, because we all know the plot from the first film, except there is no James Franco and the Green Goblin is substituted for a giant lizard, and Mary Jane is blonde with a different name.
Spider Man
Garfield plays the new spider man. I LOVE HIM. He is so adorable. I'm not sure he is a better spider man, because I thought Maguire's doe eyed bambi-spider (how creepy would a bambi-spider hybrid be? eurgh, like one of those weird toys off Toy Story) was perfect. Garfield plays a different spider man; slightly harder, slightly edgier, seems a lot more capable athletically and mentally. He is kind of like Maguire's spider man when he goes all dark and edgy in that black spider man suit. Spider man on acid (the drug, not actually acid) / lots of Red Bull. There is a scene where he is teasing a robber, and at first it's funny, but then you realise that asserting your power over someone else in a mean and humiliating way is probably how most dictators started off. He is also not very considerate to his aunt when she has just been widowed, and mean to Gwen Stacy when her dad dies.
Or: Spider man suit vs New spider man suit
They make the new spider man cleverer; his suit is better, he is a computer / maths nerd instead of faffing around with cameras, and he makes the web shooters. Nice bit of detail. Plus, nerds are in at the moment, apparently.
Gwen Stacy
Emma Stone is as doe-eyed as Tobey Maguire, so it was a good job they weren't cast in the same film together. It would have been a cinematic experience full of giant, shining, emotive orbs.
I don't think they used Emma Stone to her full husky-voiced potential in this film, but she was good anyway. I didn't quite feel the chemistry with her and Andrew Garfield as much as Maguire and Dunst, which is odd, because they are my favourite celebrity real-life couple in the entire world. I find the character of Gwen Stacy a bit blah,to be honest, but Emma Stone made her as fun as she could. Although what was up with the thigh high socks she wore under her lab coat? You are working in a lab with dangerous chemicals, not going to an audition for St Trinians 3.
Lizard Man
I am always surprised by how good an actor Rhys Ifans is, because I only remember him as Spike from Notting Hill. He plays a scientist with one arm, and boy, does he talk about only having one arm a lot. In an attempt to cure the fact he only has ONE ARM, he has experiments with cross species genetics. Spider man solves the algorithm for him, because he is a nerd. Rhys Ifans injects himself with the cure too early, and becomes a giant lizard with a ridiculous human face. He looks like a love child between a lizard and Voldermort:
Uncle Ben
Looks EXACTLY THE SAME as the last Uncle Ben. Only this Uncle Ben has glasses. They probably made him wear them so people wouldn't think the studio had cast the same actor twice out of sheer laziness.
I am always surprised by how good an actor Rhys Ifans is, because I only remember him as Spike from Notting Hill. He plays a scientist with one arm, and boy, does he talk about only having one arm a lot. In an attempt to cure the fact he only has ONE ARM, he has experiments with cross species genetics. Spider man solves the algorithm for him, because he is a nerd. Rhys Ifans injects himself with the cure too early, and becomes a giant lizard with a ridiculous human face. He looks like a love child between a lizard and Voldermort:
The Voldizard causes chaos by trying to turn everyone else into Voldizards. People are screaming, people are fleeing, people are turning into Voldizards left right and central.
I didn't find the lizard villain very scary to be honest. It was quite a sad story though, and I did feel for Rhys Ifans. HE ONLY HAD ONE ARM. He rescues spider man from falling at the end. REDEMPTION.
Uncle Ben
Looks EXACTLY THE SAME as the last Uncle Ben. Only this Uncle Ben has glasses. They probably made him wear them so people wouldn't think the studio had cast the same actor twice out of sheer laziness.
Apart from the glasses, the only difference is that this Uncle Ben fathered Charlie Sheen, so that's a bonus. WINNING!
Overall, a good superhero film. I'll be interested to see where they take the plot in the next one. Will Gwen Stacy die? Will spider man turn into an actual dictator? Will Gwen Stacy lose her interest in thigh high socks and start wearing something else just as inappropriate in a lab, like a flammable mini dress? Will the next villain be a Voldinasour? Will there be a VOLDIMAN? (Voldermort Spider man). Or maybe a SPIDERMORT? (Spider man Voldermort)These never ending questions are keeping me up all night! Ciao for now.
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