Confession: I have had a massive crush on Andrew Garfield since I first saw him in an episode of Doctor Who (yes, I’m a Whovian, but that’s a whole other confession). So when I heard that he was playing Peter Parker in the new Spider-Man movie, it vastly lessened my disappointment that they are already rebooting a franchise that ended (admittedly lacklusterly) only 5 years ago. Film industry, are you freaking kidding me? I thought. Then I imagined kissing Andrew Garfield upside down and things got a little fuzzy after that…

Anyway, The Amazing Spider-Man starts from the very beginning, with Peter Parker as a little boy who gets left at his Aunt and Uncle’s house while his parents run off all mysteriously. Fast forward 10 years and now he is an awkward, sorta emo (but not as emo as Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 3) teenager with a crush on adorable Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone, whom I like enough that I can’t begrudge her real life romance with Andrew Garfield) and a lot of questions about his parents. He sneaks into Oscorp to meet Dr. Connors (Rhys Ifans…is it just me, or has he been in a lot of movies lately?), an old friend of his father’s, and accidentally gets bitten by a genetically mutated spider. You all know what happens after that, right?

This movie was a lot funnier than I expected, but it also had a lot of heart. I credit Sally Field and Martin Sheen with a lot of that heart, as both are excellent as Aunt May and Uncle Ben, respectively. In fact, the whole cast is quite good (although it was hard for me to adjust to Emma as a blonde…even if it is her natural hair color), although I still think they haven’t quite managed to capture the complete snarkiness of Spider-Man in any of his movies. Another thing that I liked was the return of the web shooters and the scene where Peter first gets his powers and beats up a train-load of people on accident. Like I said, funny.

I was worrying about what polish I would do for this movie and E was like, “Don’t you have an entire Spider-Man Collection?” Da-doy! I totally forgot about OPI’s The Amazing Spider-Man Collection sitting up in my nail polish drawers. Here is two coats of Just Spotted the Lizard, a metallic gold-green duochrome that is a little bit brush stroke-y, but not bad formula-wise. It’s no wonder that there are so many copycats of this color. It’s pretty awesome. Not the coolest thing I’ve ever seen…but still neat. ~K