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A few weeks back, the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man came up ahead of a feature film I’d gone to see, and the couple next to me began muttering about whether the series needed a reboot so soon after the Sam Raimi trilogy. If two strangers in a movie theatre are thinking it, other people are probably thinking it too, and indeed, the box office for this film may well suffer due to a general sense of Spidey fatigue – and the perception that this movie is just a blatant attempt by Hollywood to cash in on a recognisable character. Hopefully this doesn’t happen, though. The Amazing Spider-Man is not a great film, but it’s a pretty darn good one. It’s an enjoyable popcorn flick with a top-notch cast and plot that cracks along, and unlike many recent blockbusters, it doesn’t feel the need to be dark and edgy in order to be taken seriously.

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