Get past the cynicism behind Sony wanting to milk another movie from the “Spider-Man,” franchise and you might notice how much more real the web-slinging effects are. This feels less animated, a problem with the Sam Raimi “Spider-Man” pictures of the last decade. And “Amazing Spider-Man” gives us the best Stan “The Creator” Lee cameo ever.
But that’s about all the praise this feeble re-boot deserves. Character by character, scene by scene, actor by actor, this is strictly inferior product, a movie that never answers that one simple question anyone outside of a corporate boardroom will ask.
Why was this movie made?
