The Amazing Spider-Man Is So Much Less Amazing than Italian Spider-Man
I’m certain almost all of you have seen one or more of the internet’s legendary Italian Spider-Man clips, but I assure you’ve never seen him like this — assembled into one 40-minute feature movie. Yes, the people who made the Italian Spider-Man shorts (who happen to be the people behind the equally amazing Danger 5, for the record) were given actual money to make an actual movie, and this is the result. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who has somehow missed these things, but let me assure you that Andrew Garfield’s “small knives” joke is significantly less entertaining than Italian Spider-Man summoning penguins to attack women in bikinis. I mean, it’s not even close. (Via Comics Alliance)
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