When Batman Begins came out back in 2005 I thought that it made Tim Burton's Batman of 1989 look silly in comparison. Now with only 10 years separating Sam Raimi's Spider-Man and this film the same can be said. Yes, this is pretty much the same story told 10 years ago, but it is amazingly (pun!) different in the best possible way.
This film really wants to seperate itself from the others by looking at Peter Parkers origin. We are treated with some very brief but powerful images of his youth that frame who he has become. In fact I would say that this is much more a character piece than it is an action movie, and that only hurts the "popcorn" factor a little. With the Lizard we get the same kind of origin as many other Spidey bad guys; in that they are actually pretty decent people who get turned crazy with power only to come around at the very end.
The film looks much sharper, and like that the "Orange Filter" was no longer used like it was in the first 3. Not to measure the previous trilogy by the 3rd film, but the finale in Amazing makes Spider-Man 3 look like Bamtan and Robin. Amazing really is what the title suggests and I really want to see them take on more core characters in the years to come.
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