Issue 14 of Stencil Mag

It’s fair to say that Spiderman 3 was far from spectacular, and Tobey Maguire was not the right choice to play the part spider, part human, superhero. Fear not though, Marvel’s Spiderman is righting his wrongs with some help from Andrew Garfield.

This film is purely a revamp of the previous Spiderman series, which it can be said focussed slightly too much on the love story between Peter Parker and Mary Jane. It still plays a part in the latest movie, which this time features actress Emma Stone.

Like all superhero movies, you don’t have to guess how the film is going to end, and the same goes with this film. Peter Parker is left an orphan at an early age and left in the care of his uncle who is later killed. He then goes on the search for his fathers former partner and establishes one of what will become many enemies.

But it’s Garfield who adds the edge to this one, his acting displaying a sense of maturity and wisdom which was never really seen in the previous arachnid superhero chronicles.

The Spiderman movies always include that element of fun, and this chapter is no different. Let’s just hope it doesn’t take a downward spiral much like the previous trilogy.

Jesse Eisenberg goes from owning Facebook to robbing banks in a matter of 12 months, but this has been no downward spiral. Eisenberg plays the part of Nick, who we assume has just recently graduated and found himself working in a downscaled version of pizza hut delivering pizzas in the rust bucket which is his car. Meanwhile Dwayne (Danny Mcbride) and his sidekick and part-time punch bag Travis (Nick Swarsdon) come up with a plan to exterminate McBride’s millionaire father. Of course they don’t want to get their hands dirty so the pair decide they need $100,000 dollars to hire a hitman, and this is where Eisenberg comes back into the picture.

They kidnap Nick and with the use of explosives strapped to his chest, convince him to rob a bank in order to fund the hitman. Nick manages to talk his school teacher friend Chet (Aziz Ansari) into giving him an extra hand with robbing the bank.

30 Minutes or Less received quite a low key cinema release, and it’s hard to understand why. Sure, the plot is beyond ridiculous, but it beats the likes of the Hollywood structured movies which we are faced with on a day to day basis. Although Eisenberg and McBride play their parts equally as humorously, it’s Ansari who generates the most laughs in this one with his, at times, light hearted approach on the crimes the pair commit.