In his civilian identity he’s played for creepy comedy, and his character arc (an obsessional hero worship of Spider-Man) owes far too much to Jim Carrey’s forgettable, irritating turn as the Riddler in Batman Forever. It just doesn’t work.Įlectro is particularly difficult to take, and like most of this movie’s villains, he feels like a holdover from an earlier era of superhero films. When one of those villains is the single greatest villain in Spider-Man history, one whose entire conflict is based on his and his family’s long relationship with the character, it’s extraordinarily difficult to make that work in the context of a single film, especially when he has to share screen time with other, less interesting characters.
But the presence of three baddies, even when one is a throwaway (the less said about Paul Giamatti’s painfully broad Rhino the better), often makes for difficult storytelling. A hero is only as good as his villains, and Spider-Man has a rogues’ gallery as memorable and grotesque as Batman’s. The problems, however, manifest early and plague the film right up until the closing credits. There are issues held over from the previous film, particularly the mysterious fate of Peter Parker’s parents, and the film kicks off with a nearly identical flashback that promptly turns into a strangely out of place action sequence on a private jet before launching into villain origins, easter egg hunts for future Spider-Man films, and more.
#AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 REVIEW MOVIE#
Picking up with Peter and Gwen Stacy’s high school graduation, the movie follows the expected ups and downs of any Spider-Man screen romance, before introducing not one, not two, but THREE villains (four or more if you count various Oscorp heavies) who serve (or don’t serve) the story in assorted capacities. On the other hand, the movie is often in danger of collapsing under its own weight, and might have done better trying to tell one story rather than approximately four. On the one hand, this results in what is a more complete Spider-Man/Peter Parker performance from Andrew Garfield (if not the most complete by any actor to wear the webs), and some unabashedly fun action sequences set on the streets of New York City. There’s an awful lot of Marvel mythology that The Amazing Spider-Man 2wants to address, and it often feels like the screenplay by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner, and James Vanderbilt is trying to simply hit as many Spidey beats as possible, for fear that they may not get another chance. While the results are (at best) uneven, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is anchored by great performances from Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, shines in its more lighthearted moments, and does its very best to establish a wider Spider-Man universe for future films. In fact, Sony’s rebooted Spider-Man franchise finally takes that much-needed step out of Sam Raimi’s long shadow this time around. One thing is certain about The Amazing Spider-Man 2…it isn’t boring or unambitious.
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