Fucking 100% right on!!!... I don't know why they even pretend anymore... like you said, just cut to the chase.
throw in a cheesy.. cool gasoline explosion every 4.5 minutes and you have a blockbuster
gasoline exlplosions will scare the 9-12 year old girls, Hollywood's major audience today.
We need more firendship, love and so on.
Maybe Doc Oc could be a metrosexual nice guy who's sister got kidnapped, and in the end they find out she wasn't kidnapped but just got on the wrong bus and her cell phone batteries had benn low, then he is friends with Spidey/Justin Bieber and they go together to the Hannah Montana concert.
The girls will like that much more than Spidey and Oc kicking the living shit out of each other.