There's much I could say about the sequel for
The Amazing Spider-Man, but a lot would spoil the movie. Most of interesting things about this movie is heavy with spoilers. I can't talk about it without giving away the best parts of the movie. So this review is gonna be short and to the point. Which is if you should watch it or not. So
this review will be spoiler free.
The non-spoilery thing I can say is the general plot of this movie.
The second movie takes place a while after the first one, and for Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), life is busy – between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen (Emma Stone), high school graduation can’t come quickly enough. Peter hasn't forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away – but that’s a promise he just can’t keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro (Jamie Foxx), emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.
The movie as it self works great, and I don't even think you have to have seen the first one before this. I mean, it's probably the best thing to do, but I don't think you'll be too confused if you are just familiar with the original origin story of Spider-Man and how he came to be. But I can only recommend watching the first one, because that is a great movie.
One of the only flaws, so to speak, in this movie is that I think it has one too many villains? It was the same problem I had with Spider-Man 3 (also that movie was spectacularly bad), because we had New Goblin, Sandman and Venom (who was my favourite Spidy villain as a child), all at once. It was just too much, because they all had to have their origin story crammed into the movie and it was just all over the place and bad. Which I think they came close to doing again with this one. They have two villains in this one, (sort of three), when only one would have been enough. I think they could have waited with the Green Goblet until the next one, because this move would have provided a great set-up for that particular character.
And speaking of villains, I did not really enjoy Electro. Mainly because his character, Max, before the transforming accident, was just too creepy. He totally belonged in an episode of
Criminal Minds. He
had one conversation with Spider-Man, (who was just being his usual nice self), and then BAM, he starts to imagine this whole friendship between him and Spidy, and it just got
weird. It creeped me out. And his whole reason for doing evil was kinda weak too. I don't know, I didn't like him.
But now that I think about it, and what I remember from the 1994 cartoon tv-series, most of Spider-Man's enemies were pretty lame in their goals and driving force? They were basically normal people who got into a freak accident, and then went on a rampage. Or I am totally wrong, and I am sorry.
So other than that, I did enjoy the movie. Even though I was in a constant state of stress towards the end because I knew from the comic books what was going to happen at the end (one of the major spoilers). Oh, and also my heart was breaking for the character of Harry Osborn. Damn, did my love for him soar. I never really cared for him in the comics or the cartoon, or even the previous movies, where he was played by James Franco. He just seemed like a spoiled prick in those? But this movie gave his character heart and Dane DeHaan knocked it out of the park. I was insanely invested in his character and his story, that I almost forgot who the movie was about. And his chemistry with Andrew Garfield was amazing, really. They did seem like natural friends, and it seemed real.
god, and look how gorgeous they both are?
Did I say they review would be short? Ah, guess not. But yeah, to wrap up this thing, I would say that
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a great and enjoyable movie, with a top notch cast and crew, wonderful score (shout-out to Hans Zimmer), and just overall greatness.
Go see it if you like action, comedy, and a bit of heartbreak.
