Do not watch this movie. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone definitely make a cute couple. They should just produce a romance with them. Wait for that movie instead of watching this now.
The characters seem to loose dimension. The plot between Peter and Gwen is basically:
"I am going to go." - "No don't go." - "Yes, I will go." - "Don't go away", etc. Who wrote that?
And then there are the two villains... Electro is a laughably 1 dimensional character that is simply ridiculous when he is still a human. As other form, he can atleast fight, kind of. The action scenes were actually so bad that I wanted to watch the whole "I will go to somewhere else" thingy Peter and Gwen got going on.
The green goblin is not too bad, however there are so many enemies in the Spider-Man universe, I don't think they should've brought one of the few back there were in the original trilogy. However, I already should've stopped watching when Electro first appeared, so what does it really matter anyways.
In conclusion:
- Weak characters development from the first movie "simplified", terrible dialog, missed potential, laughably terrible villain
+ Cute couple, 1 villain that is not complete %$§&
Do not watch this movie.
Terribly underrated movie.
A lot of people seem to think the story isn't very focused, or has too many villains. I understand where that complaint is coming from, but I disagree. The main story is about the failures of Spider-man/Peter, and how that ultimately leads to the events that happen at the climax.
People also have a problem with Jamie Foxx's character, and I think that simply comes from a misunderstanding of that character. At first glance you might think this is just a goofy/campy character that doesn't make a lot of sense in the things that he does, but if you pay attention, Jamie Foxx is actually playing this character with a mental disability. The actions he takes make perfect sense from that perspective. Also, people complain about the Rhino, but I think that should be obvious that character was only used for a fun beginning and end set piece moment, and was never really part of the story.
Despite what some people may not like about the movie, it was clearly the movie that came closest to bringing the look and feel of comic book Spider-man to screen. I haven't seen anything of Homecoming yet, so who knows, maybe that will go a step further, but this movie was pretty spot on with the suit, the action, and the writing. It just felt exactly the way a Spider-man movie should feel. Oh, and the 3D is amazing. A few of those scenes bring the same feeling a roller coaster does when it's about to go down the first drop, just some of the best 3D I've seen. As for the score, it's solid, but I don't think it quite matches what any of the other movies have done. Although I do like the idea they used of basically hearing Electro's thoughts through the music playing in the background. The orchestral theme used for Spidey is quite good, almost sounding like a Superman theme in spots, but it just doesn't quite hit the same emotional impact as the other Spider-man movie themes.
The biggest problem I have with this movie is not with the movie itself, but with the fact that we'll never get to see the consequences of what happens at the end of the story. There was so much potential being built up for sequels, with the green goblin almost certainly being the main villain for the next film, as well as possibly exploring a darker side of spider-man properly (likely with the symbiote, as they were leading to an eventual venom movie). Also, I would have loved to see Felicity Jones as Black Cat, especially if she was paired up with Black Suit Spidey. And then obviously you have the whole Sinister Six storyline that was being developed.
I hope perhaps Sony and Marvel can maybe do a "Spiderverse" storyline, including Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire if possible. There's already some basis for doing such a thing in the comics, and with Doctor Strange in the MCU, they could certainly pull it off, but who knows.
logically I know that there are many things wrong with this movie (and the series as a whole). emotionally, however, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are the only things keeping me afloat. I don’t think a superhero movie has ever made me cry more than this one.
therefore, my brain says no but my heart says yes
I really don't understand why people hate this movie. It's basically the perfect comic book representation of Spider-man in movie form. The suit, the action, the quips and dialogue all are just so pitch perfect to who spider-man is and is supposed to be, in a way that no other movie has gotten right. As for the story, I think when you look at the Electro character through the lens of mental illness, I think it adds another dimension to his character that makes him interesting, and I think the development of the green goblin was a tease for the next movie that we ultimately never got to see. For example, imagine if Peter got the black suit in ASM3, and then wanted to take revenge on Harry for what he did. They could have potentially handled the black suit story better, and maybe Felicia / Black Cat could have been there during those dark times to sort of help Peter move on from Gwen, which would free him up to be ready for when MJ showed up. I think there was some cool potential with what they were building that could have been cool, but even without that, I think the movie I just watched is just too dang fun. I really don't understand the hate it gets.
when she dies it’s broke my heart
[4.9/10] What frustrates me the most about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is that there’s a strong core story here. Peter and Gwen have tremendous chemistry. You want them to be together. But as is inevitably the case, Peter’s moonlighting creates problems for his ability to be in a relationship. So too does his promise to Captain Stacey, who glowers at him from beyond the grave. So you play the forbidden romance angle. You play Peter and Gwen pushing things to the limit, making their own choices, until suddenly there’s a cost to it. A villain senses Spider-Man’s attachment. Gwen has to pay the cost. And Peter has to live with the guilt.
There’s so much there! Most movies would kill to have a romance that works as well as the one that Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone paint on the screen. The fact that they clearly love one another but think the relationship is bad for both of them adds complication and passion to it. And there being a consequence for them giving in despite the risks, with Captain Stacey’s worst fear coming to pass, adds tragic weight to it. You could do so much with the ideas, the character work, the engrossing energy on screen, with those elements in play.
Instead, TASM2 squanders it all by cramming in umpteen other storylines, a pair of terrible central performances, and a morass of ugly CGI nonsense that effectively killed this series of films. Why in god’s name the powers that be at Sony decided that what the movie needed was more more more is beyond me. It’s a trap so many cape flicks fall into, and that the studio itself had already stepped in with the abominable Spider-Man 3 just seven years earlier.
Suffice it to say, it’s not enough to focus on Peter Parker’s relationship to your other major character and have it threatened by a single villain who threatens or otherwise reflects it in some way. No, we need an opener and closer with Rhino. And we need Max Dillon going from spider-fan to superpowered spider-hater as Electro. And we need Harry Osborn coming back to town, demanding Spider-Man’s blood, and turning into the Goblin. And we need Aunt May becoming a nurse. And for some godforsaken reason, we need to continue the storyline of a hush-hush corporate conspiracy to take out and frame Peter’s father.
Even if all of these plots were good, which they’re definitely not, it would just be too much for a two hour and change movie. The generous phrase to use here is, “It’s rather cluttered.” The less charitable one is, “This is a sloppy, ill-considered mess.” None of these pieces fit together, None of them feed into one another. The attempts to merge and meld them lead to a janky, ungainly movie where stories simply crash into one another rather than bound gracefully like the web-head himself.
Somehow, the worst part is the villains, which is always an awful sign. It’s okay for villains to be boring if the real meat of your story is in the hero’s personal growth. It’s also okay for the villains to steal the show, since they typically get to go wilder and have more fun than the good guy does. But it’s not okay for the villains to be laughably bad, in their appearances, character arcs, and performances.
What in God’s name were Jamie Foxx and Dane DeHaan thinking? Foxx does the cartooniest, most screw-loose nerd character for Max Dillon, and then turns into a self-possessed cold-blooded killer when he becomes Electro. The two guises are bad on their own terms but also have nothing to do with one another regardless. Some of that’s on the writing, which succumbs to the same “science-y thing happened and now I’m evil and CRAZY!” villain story the previous four Spider-Man films had used. But some of it’s on Foxx, who plays Dillon and Electro as two entirely different people.
Plus good lord, what sort of weird, affected voice is DeHaan putting on for Harry Osborn. I guess you can say that he’s making choices as an actor, but the effort to play the spoiled, patently evil son of wealth is embarrassingly bad. It presages Jesse Eisenberg’s strange, tic-filled take on Lex Luthor in Batman v. Superman, and saps any power of the character’s relationship with and betrayal of Peter Parker.
The shame to this is that while the writing of the characters sucks on a scene-to-scene basis, there’s decent ideas behind each of them. Max Dillon feels invisible until Spider-Man saves him; he feels betrayed when Spidey doesn't remember him, and his new powers and ill-deeds make him feel literally and figuratively seen. Harry is desperate to avoid his father’s fate, is legitimately screwed over by the same corrupt corporate execs who screw Max, and believes he has a cure for both their problems. You can see how parts of it could succeed, at least on paper, if the execution of the ideas were not so clunky and downright baffling at times.
Of course, it must be noted that both of them look terrible. Electro’s Dr. Manhattan-esque azure hue looks like a cartoon plastered into live action. Harry’s Gollum-esque look makes him seem like a cast-off from a toothpaste commercial after unconvincingly playing plaque. And the events in the movie’s climactic third act bore rather than wow because they look like an unreal, video game cutscene the whole time. Nothing has weight or visual plausibility, just an ugly mess of implausible nonsense that makes you tune out from the emotional gut punch of the film.
While not quite as bad, all the material involving Peter’s parents, and the conspiracy plot to slander him, and Spidey’s byzantine mystery-solving to uncover the truth is just so uninvolving. There’s no reason why Spider-Man couldn’t uncover a vast corporate conspiracy, but it’s tonally distinct from all the other supernatural and more personal business going down here, so it feels like something shoehorned in from another movie entirely. You can sense director Marc Webb and company not only wanting to build to some payoff in the third movie, but also trying to connect everything here to launch a broader “cinematic universe” at a time when the MCU was soaring and Sony wanted to yell “Us too!” without the time to properly set it up or, indeed, evidently the know-how.
There’s no edit or cut that could fix these things. There is so much detritus in the soul of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, so many ill-conceived choices slapped together, all of which seem inextricable from one another. Every bad decision is cinematic gum in your hair; every attempt to remove it just seems to get more tangled in the mess.
But for all those missteps, what works about the movie is the same thing that worked about the last one: Peter and Gwen. Spider-Man himself is much improved here, quipping and joking and seeming far more whimsical and relatable than the generic cool misfit spit out in the last one. Plenty of his interludes and exchanges here are downright fun, a marked contrast from the first TASM outing.
Yet, while the banter between Peter and Gwen is frequently also fun, as the two have a great comic rapport with lines that ably mimic the inside jokes and ribbing tone affectionate couples take, it also comes with an undercurrent of pain. Peter doesn’t want Gwen to become collateral damage. Gwen doesn’t want Peter to keep jerking her around like this. They’re pulled together by their love but pushed apart by the star-crossed nature of their relationship. It feels real and meaningful, even in the shadow of the stupid, oft-convoluted events happening around them.
It’s just not enough to save a bad movie. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ends this unfortunate duology on a low note. It wastes a great story in a mess of awful ones. It loses the clarity of Spider-Man’s love and loss in a wash of other less-interesting cinematic and superheroic bric-a-brac. It loses any goodwill by going overlong and overstuffed. There was so much promise here, in two stellar central performances and enough good ideas to keep fueling them.
But after an outing this rough, the TASM franchise deserved to be laid to rest like Gwen Stacey. and the only thing worth mourning is what might have been had the powers that be capitalized on their good fortune in casting and chemistry instead of squandering it.
I for one have nothing negative to say about this movie. Is it perfect ? No, but what movie is ? Was it entertaining ? Hell , Yeah ! I love the soundtrack that together with the visuals creates a great atmosphere.
In my opinion, of all the Marvel superhero movies, this is one of the better ones.
TASM2 is one of the few movies which I actually need 2 kinds of ratings for: how much I enjoyed the movie / how good the movie actually is, and I feel that its a 9/5.
it sure didn't do Spiderman justice, both as a superhero and a legacy, BUT it's confusing because Andrew/Emma/Dehaan 's performances made me love watching them and their characters, so much so that it made me forget the lazy writing and underwhelming portray of Spiderman's growth. I treated it like a rom-com and didn't even realized it until it ended :( I loved every bit of Peter, Gwen and Harry. it's conflicting and they shouldn't have put us through this, ugh.
the whole production was smart in the sense that, they used a formula which could trick people into thinking that it was a perfect movie, and it actually worked because of the cast and impressive graphics. but Spiderman the superhero deserved much more than relationship problems or daddy issues... and the most glaring problem becomes clear, when
1) I think about the lack of things Spiderman learned as a person by the end of movie.
2) What exactly did Electro do for the story?
sighpie.
movie has practically no plot until 1h 30m into the movie but the last 30 minutes r so eventful. also has anyone noticed that harry looks like young leonardo dicaprio in some scenes?
gwennnnnn :(
I know people dislike this movie, and I've always delayed watching it because of that (and because none of the two reboots, so far, have successfully convinced me). How silly of me... I actually thought it wasn't that bad, quite the contrary. I was more entertained by this than by Homecoming or Far From Home. I was pleasantly surprised, I most certainly had more fun watching this sequel than I had with the first The Amazing Spider-Man!
Andrew and Emma have definitely solidified their chemistry on this one (they didn't convince me that much as a couple in the first movie). Andrew also portraits a better Peter Parker/Spider-Man here, since he dropped that obnoxious immature, arrogant and careless attitude of the previous movie.
There were quite a few dumb scenes and the main villain itself was simply dumb and a badly written character. The way Max goes from loving Spider-Man to hating him is just appalling, as is the fact that he was such an awkward and clearly not very sociable person and as soon as he gets powers he also instantly gets a new personality — zero character development. These things obviously dragged the movie down a bit.
The forever controversial death of Gwen Stacy was actually very well done and an emotional highlight of the whole franchise. There was just something so special and moving in the way they made Spider-Man's web string seem like it was forming a hand at the tip, desperately trying to grab and pull Gwen away from her impending doom.
But where the movie truly excelled, for me, was in the Spider-Man scenes! Stunning camera work, choreography and special effects! Best Spider-Man scenes up to (and including) Far From Home!
After watching it a feeling remains that there's something wrong with the movie, but there's also the feeling that this was one hell of an entertaining Spider-Man adventure!
An underrated and misunderstood (broken) gem!
It's a real mess.
The plot seems an afterthought. There is an immediate u-turn at the beginning that reduces everything to a cliche. A new character is introduced just to give us a villain. Another is introduced just to give us a nemesis.
And the last 20 minutes tries to set up a 3rd instalment when there is little appetite to even see how this film ends...
I'd put it as worse than Maguire's 3rd as it is just so patchy. But Garfield's Spiderman is a far superior version than Maguire's.
Had this not been a mess, a 3rd Garfield would have been interesting.
5.75/10
Part 5 (of 8) of my Spider-Man movie re-watch marathon in preparation for No Way Home. Once again, I'm not going to update my original score for this movie (7/10) based on this viewing.
THE BAD: The backstory of Peter's dad and his connection to the spider that created Spider-Man continues to be overly convoluted and not particularly engaging. In particular, the cliché conspiracy wall scene, the short-lived false condemnation of Peter's parents, and the ultimate vindicating discovery of the secret subway tunnel all feel forced both narratively and emotionally. The attempt to establish Peter's childhood friendship with Harry Osborn is awkward. I think they either needed an alternative connection/introduction or he should have been included in the first film. While the film has some fresh ideas about the Harry/Norman Osborn relationship and the origin of the Green Goblin, ultimately the portrayal doesn't live up to Willem Dafoe's original. While I don't necessarily have a problem with including multiple villains, the movie did feel needlessly overstuffed in other ways. The biggest example would be the strange air traffic control/plane collision disaster that felt completely unnecessary and was just there to artificially add stakes (even though literally none of the characters in the movie were aware that it was happening).
THE GOOD: I actually rather liked Jamie Foxx's portrayal of the strange Max Dillon character. It was different from what we've seen before and it should get points for that. While the ultimate motivation for him to turn villain, and more specifically his anti-Spider-Man motivation doesn't feel earned, it still gets the job done. The Peter/Gwen relationship continues to provide the best character moments in the film. They're cute and funny together and the back and forth of their. relationship still feels much more natural than what we saw of Peter/MJ in the Sam Raimi trilogy.
Gooooooood
Love this movie, best Spider-Man movie
Very amazing
No filming the comic book was not as balanced, where all are in perfect proportions. Perfect comic book movie. Gettin on tight!
Amazing effects at the Times Square scenes
Dane DeHaan was fucking perfect.
every time i watch these movies i go in thinking i’ll develop the ability to be critical and objective and then every single time i just wind up crying and wanting andrew garfield’s spidey back
all of spider-man movies, this one is the worst.
Not much better than the previous, but at least Parker became a likable character. On the other hand, the writing got significantly worse; it’s so all over the place that it felt like the setup of four films in one. I am not entirely against the campier tone though, at least we are not asked to take this too much seriously.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The movie turns out to be the classic superhero movie, nothing less nothing more. An Emma Stone that I preferred in the previous chapter that gave that extra touch of quality, but still with a good performance on this one. The ending was very nice and surprised me, I definitely didn't expect the death of a character as important as Gwen.
[-] There is no innovation, and I'm not a lover of films of this genre, so it turns out to be a classic superhero movie, with the usual clichés, but...
[+] ..the ending was very unexpected and I appreciated it very much; good soundtrack
5/10
The movie script moved too fast and didn't let the characters develop to the fullest. The first TASM movie was better.
I feel sad because the TASM series had really good potantial if the writers and Sony really cared about it. The Sinister Six build-up was promesing along with Black Cat's origin.
Once again, great performance by Andrew Garfield.
This is such a significant improvement over 'The Amazing Spider-Man' and how this reboot should have started. It's also better than Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man 3' as it doesn't feel so forced or incoherent in its selection of antagonists. This is also far more colourful and fun than the previous film and Gwen is an actual asset with her own agency instead of some damsel in distress like we constantly got with Raimi's Mary Jane. The stakes feel much higher and the action is seriously brutal in comparison to any of the previous Spider-Man films. Too bad this is where the series ended for this version of Spider-Man.
I hate more the new childish spider man when I watch this series and the previous great trilogy
This Spider Man who we love !
Not as good as the first one... Visually it's pretty impressive though, it resembles a video game at times.
It's too bad they didn't complete the trilogy
É um filme ok. Não achei a história muito extraordinária, o Duende Verde está decepcionante. A cena da torre do relógio é maravilhosa, forte e ao mesmo tempo sutil, é a melhor cena do filme.
Awesome
Love this movie
Best movie:c
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Even the romance, which is a bit excessive, was still believable. I give it a 9 out of ten.
This was better than the first movie, a very good one. In the end I also cried because of those damn moving scenes... If you're going to watch this movie I think you should choose the 3D vision
Networks and Studios not agreeing with contracts with actors making the story take a different side... Not cool
A huge improvement on the first, better casting and as others have pointed out, great performances from Dane DeHaan and Jamie Foxx.
Fave movie of the year thus far.
Ehhh, okay. The story was pretty rubbish and the first movie was definitely a lot better. Also what a terribly obnoxious soundtrack.
Everything happens in this movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Totally nice movie to watch, being a fan or not.
A few hiccups make you think "hey, that's not how physics work" but to that I'll say HEY! It's a movie about superpowered heroes, let it be, I totally enjoyed it and I hope the next part will be at least as good!
Visually stunning, might even be worth watching in 3D.
In this movie, Spider-man, with great malice and forethought, deliberately murders Electro, despite knowing he was a decent person with a compromised mental state by way of his powers. He kills a redeemable guy. On purpose.
Fuck this movie.
This was probably better than the first film; just as entertaining, but even more heartbreaking. Also, Dane DeHaan was brilliant as Harry Osborn!!
After all the setup in this movie, it’s a damn shame that their was not a sequel to this
Batman vs Superman wasn't spectacular but it was better made than this movie which has better reviews...Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone have great chemistry. Jamie Foxx was pretty miscast though as Electro and was just cast to avoid white washing.
While the pacing made the pacing in Batman vs Superman look good. Peter goes from a fight with Electro to suddenly just investigating what happened to his father again.
The deleted scene of Peter's dad being alive and them having a heart to heart talk should have been left in. Otherwise all the scenes about his parents go nowhere. Then again; a lot of the ideas this movie had went nowhere.
i found it alot funnier and story with harry was a quick one i kinda hoped will last to maybe third movie and what the hell with killing Gwen character -_- just fffff but nonetheless was great except Gwen!
very good :)
I confess I was not the greatest admirer of the The Amazing Spider Man reboot in 2012. Many things did not please me in the film, perhaps derived from the fact that Sam Raimi's trilogy is still very present in my memory. When the trailer of the second film came out, raised a little more enthusiasm in me, but what is certain is that I have been delaying is viewing until now.
Unfortunately, The Amazing Spider Man 2 returned to disappoint me. I was able to enjoy more of it, perhaps because although there is a mess to the mix, it can be a bit more dynamic and have some good action scenes but I still find some problems that do not please me.
The plot is a little confusing. Everything happens at the same time without having any character development. Things just happen and it's all very rushed and stop at the same point, the romance between Peter and Gwen. It seems to me that the main focus of this film was exactly their relationship between Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy. We already know that they love each other, why focus constantly throughout the film that?! However this time, I enjoyed the chemistry between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone more.
The villains are poor explored. And after all how a superhero film can work well without good villains? Jamie Foxx as Electro and Dane DeHaan as Green Goblin could have had much more screen time and they should have been explored in more detail. Contrary to this, their scenes always seem to be a bit rushed. Paul Giamatti, an actor I admire, has an absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary role in this film.
I'll just not give the same negative note I gave the first film because I can not deny that this time I could enjoy more of this new "Spidey".
A disappointing sequal. Everything started out good when being thrown right into the action combined with some beautiful visual effects and a few good laughs, but after introducing Electro everything went downhill. Not only was his overall looks terribly executed, but his motives for wanting to kill Spider-Man and taking the power away from the entire city felt weak and forced for the story to make sense.
We also have the complicated relationship between Peter and Gwen. After leaving Gwen after her father's death in the previous movie, just to take her back five minutes beore the credits we once again have to listen to Peter explaining why they can't be together, which kinda makes you feel like they haven't evoveld one bit since the last movie. It's thanks to the incredible acting of Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone that I feel like I really care about them and I guess that's why I was so bummed out.
Though alot of things were great with this movie, such as visual effects and acting, including Dane DeHaan who did a great job portraying Harry Osborn, I can't help that feel that my overall problem with this film is the script. They mixed in too many villains and the script got to suffer. I never felt like we got to explore neither Harry nor Max enough to make their stories feel real.
Overall an okay movie that couldn't live up to the greatness of its predecessor.
The best spiderman movie, in my opinion. Jamie Foxx outdid himself as Electro, Andrew and Emma and especially Dane. The cgi was stunning, the sound effects and songs were perfect, the story was so heartfelt, the action was so raw, Sally's monologue was so surprisingly saddening. Why didn't he get to make his 3rd. Ugh.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone get my Spidey senses tingling.
Best spider man ever *2
Andrew Garfield doesn't work for me but apart from that one of the most watchable movie in the franchise
Could have been a lot better, screenwriting let it down. Too many unnecessary narratives and scenes imo.
Quite a weird shift from TASM1, it’s a lot cartoonier and less gritty, but it doesn’t feel a lot like the Raimi trilogy either.
Its biggest problem is the lack of a narrative focus, it’s a bunch of subplots meshed together, some of which are desperately trying to set up future stories, and it doesn’t really work.
A lot of the dialogue sucks, the villains are just plain bad and poorly acted, and it’s a little too dumb, especially when it comes to character motivations and conveniences (even given how cartoony it is).
But, the central 2 characters and their chemistry work, the directing and cinematography are good, the action is well handled for the most part (besides that power plant scene, which looks like a cartoon) and it does have some great emotional beats that you don’t always get in blockbuster films.
There’s a scene between Sally Field and Andrew Garfield in this which features some actual great acting that you’re not likely to get in an MCU or DC film.
So it’s a film with some highlights and some great scenes, but it never was going to be a good film given its script.
But I will say that this whole narrative of it being even worse than Spider-man 3 is nonsense, simply because the acting alone is much better here, and the action isn’t a visual mess.
5/10
Swinging into action, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 delivers an exciting, adrenaline-packed adventure. When an industrial accident at Oscorp transforms a mild-mannered electrician named Max Dillon into the supervillain Electro, he sets his sights on destroying Spider-Man. And there are also some complicated subplots involving Peter Parker’s parents and Harry Osborn that don’t factor much into the main story arc. Jamie Foxx hams it up as Electro and Dane DeHaan doesn’t do much better as Harry Osborn. However, the special effects are incredible, and make for dynamic and thrilling fight sequences. Though the storytelling is weak, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a solid popcorn flick with electrifying action.
Lots of effects straight out of the Matrix, a little better written story. Not bad. ps. And good old Xperia in the background. ;)
Horrible.. Just horrible. And how exactly did Gwen die??? I mean she already fell through a building with Spidey and survived, but dies when she actually gets rescued?? Terrible ending, just terrible. Plot was weak with a cheesy villain that wasn't scary at all. Don't waste your time.
Great music, awesome action and costumes, with a bit of comedy. But that's really all this movie offers as everything else is a mess and storylines are just shoved in to build up for the Sinister Six.
DeHaan makes a pretty cool Goblin though... if he didn't look like moldy cheese.
A confused, overstuffed follow-up effort that's strangely empty, given the classic stories inside. ASM2 plays like a very good, well-intentioned script that was watered down and padded by too many cooks in the producers' kitchen. That leads to a rough, inconsistent tone, which often parades directly from one plucky bit of light banter straight into a dark, brooding, heavy plot development, then back again. Imagine if Adam West's Batman had rounded a corner in the 1960s and stumbled into Jack Nicholson's Joker parade from the first Tim Burton movie.
It's a wasted effort from Andrew Garfield, who's as close as we've had to a perfect rendition of the wisecracking Spidey everyone knows from the comics. His rendition of Peter Parker could still use some work, feeling a bit too "bro" for me, but a strong, essential bond with Emma Stone - his Gwen Stacy - smooths over most of those ruffles. Jamie Foxx is a puzzling choice as his main foil, too, in a limp-wristed role that's more pitiable than fearsome. Still, they march him out to a climactic fight scene, which rings as hollow and meaningless as the rest of his arc. More wasted acting chops.
The film can be a visual treat, especially when we're sailing through the skies on a zipline and Spidey's contorting his body into all manner of inhuman poses, ripped straight from the glossy covers. During the heat of battle, though, heavy doses of strobe, shakycam and jump-cuts can make it downright painful to keep up. I wanted to like this much more than I actually did. In all sorts of ways, it feels so much more authentic and grounded than the four efforts that came before, but it tries to do too much, drastically changing speeds and moods far too often. Let's start over again, I guess.
While there are a few things I enjoyed about The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the spectacle can't distract from the glaring story and pacing issues, as well as the poorly written dialogue and characters. But hey, it certainly is quite a wild ride.
This is more of a mess than Spider-Man 3. I still like Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone but they aren't enough to save the movie.
Watching this much younger on a bus back from dc I sorta liked it now revisiting I think this movie is terrible. It still has the Peter and Gwen thing which is strong and the villain is just awful then u throw in rhino for like 45 secs ugh. If it weren't for Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone this movie would be sooo bad.
More like THE UNAMAZING SPIDER-MAN.
I enjoyed the first one, but this one is a total mess. It offers nothing but a bunch of scenes full of CGI. And the villains? Couldn't they have made more complex villains with better motivations? The only thing I liked was how the relationship of Gwen and Peter was treated and the soundtrack.
I actually really enjoyed the first film despite some goofy moments and repetitivness. This movie has a scattered plot though and is very uneven. While Jamie Foxx was miscast as Max Dillion/Electro just for diversity reasons. His scenes as Dillion in the beginning are too comedic to take hs villain seriously.
As Electro, he does look bad ass and fairs better though. Then Dane DeHaan's Harry Osbourne is suddenly thrown into the story. Where Norman Osbourne dies. Peter sees it on tv and decides he must visit his old friend.
That is added to a the plot that already has Peter dealing with relationship drama, researching his father and fighting Electro. Then you add Harry trying to have Peter have Spider-Man help him with a genetic disease.
Oh and you also can throw in Paul Giamatti as Rhino and a lab coming up with more super villain costumes. The film has it's moments but is a mess.
Sorry but I think Spider-Man 3 was more of a mess. Since at least you don't have Peter Parker dancing to jazz or an overly bitchy girlfriend. While Garfield and Stone have great chemistry.
Still Sony is annoying when they think one film was disappointing. So time to just start from scratch...again. At least Marvel took over with Spider-Man Homecoming.
Spider-Man faces a new foe, this time in the shape of an old friend.
They’ve flogged this horse so much it’s like Marvel are trying to open a glue factory. Not only was The Amazing Spider-Man surplus to requirements when it rebooted a barely decade-old franchise, then they decided to make a sequel.
Where the first film was solid but futile this is just a bit of a stinker. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone work better on screen together than Tobey and Kirsten but aside from that there’s not much to write home about.
We’re in a time where superhero movies are half decent, so perhaps we’re spoiled; in this case the terrible writing, naff soundtrack and forgettable villains put Spidey on the lower end of the scale. It’s no Green Lantern but even a mere three years on this film is starting to feel like a distant memory.
Here’s hoping the second reboot (yes… it’s happening again) is a bit more exciting.
http://benoliver999.com/film/2017/06/27/theamazingspiderman2/
So. much. bad. CGI. Like come on, they couldn't spend a bit more of their budget for that?
Amazing Spider-Man 2 isn't as flawed as Spider-Man 3 but it's still pretty flawed. For one the movie is uneven and tried to balance having Peter go through too much at once. Plenty of scenes could have been cut out.
But I am not sure what would be left of a movie if unnecessary scenes were cut out.
Decent sequel with good performances bogged down by a messy.
I thoroughly enjoyed The Amazing Spider-man as my review indicates (http://trakt.tv/comment/movie/3718)
I couldn't even make it through this one! I'll try and give it another shot at some point because I think Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are perfectly cast in their respective roles and I love the Spider-man mythos.
@simonynwa hits a lot of the same notes that I was feeling particularly the rushed and disjointed nature.
I'm assuming by "the original Spider-man sequel" you mean Raimi's, then we diverge. I had so many issues with the absolutely terrible exposition in the script as to make me vocally annoyed. It's a pet peeve as it's just lazy and that one ranks up there for me. It suffered from the "Gentleman, as you already know..." syndrome. But I digress.
lol, wut, i watched about 20 minutes and only one thing to say - booooooooooooooooooooring
I like it...
I enjoyed it sucks Peter parker wasn't in it
I loved the first movie and gave it 9/10. This one was terrible. Everything about it was wrong. How could they make so many bad choices in this one, I don't know.
A few plotholes but still enjoyable...
I watched the movie and the first hour nothing happened, stupid action, trivial love story ("I can't be without you, so please leave me!") and wondering when the villain finally shows up.
This movie is so boring, I had a short electricy cut (hilarious, isn't it?) and I didn't start it up and I don't feel like I've missed something.
I gave a "Meh..."(5) because that's the sound I made during the playback.
There is little that isn't wrong with this. Part of the appeal of Spider-man, in most all of his incarnations save this one - be it Peter Parker or Miles Morales, is that he's the wise-cracking every adolescent who by chance has these abilities.
Through the decades, we've seen the clone saga, and the venom storylines, and part-time Avenger, but this, this is like having Superman indiscriminately killing people and not caring about the consequences of his actions.
The Spiderman cinematic universe, at least as envisioned by Sony, is dead to me. F'k them, and I hope their attempts to turn it into an ensemble affair with Sinister-Six and such, fail miserably.
it's lame, lazy, and shameful
The Amazing here is Electro, and Spider-Man is nothing but a drama queen.
A film that entertains in fits but is ultimately disappointing. The previous entry had the excuse of rebooting the series and having to reintroduce the origin story - this does not. Ultimately the overall story feels rushed and disjointed and more of an attempt to introduce more elements of a franchise like The Avengers than any effort to tell a coherent story. It appears that the lessons from the Raimi series have also not been learned - there are far too many plot elements fighting for screen time and two villains are unnecessary even if there is a greater focus on one. It is easy to understand why the filmmakers jettisoned the casting of Mary Jane Watson - here the focus is on the relationship between Peter and Gwen, and like in the previous film they are the highlight with both Stone and Garfield showing why they were perfectly cast. The problem is that the desire to create conflict between these two characters never convinces, rehashing elements that were already covered in the previous entry all in service of a payoff that is all too obvious to anyone who is paying attention. The special effects are beautifully realised and all the action sequences are visually stunning despite the overload on slow motion shots. But these can't make up for the disjointed storyline and the original Spiderman sequel is still the benchmark!!
I didn't like Andrew as Spider-Man to be honest, hopefully this movie is gonna make me change my mind about that.
Lucky for me, Emma Stone and Jamie Foxx (as the new villain Electro) will be in the cast!
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Spidey made me cry… real tears