It just came out today in Japan, and I was one of the first to see it since midnight releases apparently don't exist in Kumamoto.
Either way. I was pretty optimistic from the start, especially after seeing the first trailer where Spidey was in the back of a car talking smack to a carjacker.
I just got back from seeing it... Holy crap was that the fastest two hours of my life! I didn't think the movie was long enough because I was having a blast the whole way through it! Anybody who said it was too early to reboot spiderman...
It kicked all three of Raimi's films so hard they should be halfway to Jupiter by now. I don't even want to remember them anymore.
And I'm not being biased because of the Lizard. Honestly, Curt Connors is better when he's not a giant green human with a tail.
What really shines here is the new Peter Parker and his relationship with Gwen Stacey. This movie is packed with so much quick-paced emotional tension that I almost cried during the infamous scene involving a certain burglar. And in the Raimi film, that part came off as really forced and awkward to me.
Almost everything in the movie is streamlined and cut together perfectly. In all honesty, I wouldn't put this above the Avengers though. That will still be the best comic book movie in my opinion for a long, long time. But the Amazing Spider Man is a brilliant runner up for the summer movie season.