The Amazing Spider-Man 2

I loved the action and Spider-Man’s jokes were awesome! The fights were super cool, especially with Electro. But the ending made me really sad. Still, it was really fun to watch and I want to see it again!

ASM2 is a movie that can easily spilt people. On one hand it's disappointing and on the other it's beautiful. The first Amazing Spider-Man introduced a Peter Parker that had real likeability, a romance with genuine connection and a visually accurate Spider-Man. ASM2 had so much potential to build on and the trailers looked amazing. After my first viewing I loved it, but something was off about it, I spent to summer convinced it was a terrible movie. I gave it another chance and realised what the issue was. Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a great movie but a terrible Spider-Man movie. The plot has has too many subplots and the villains aren't fleshed out at all. The on again off again relationship spoils the chemistry created in the first movie. That said all the actors play the parts really well and Andrew Garfield is great as Spider-Man. The film feels a bit like an introduction into a Spider-Man movie universe (which is what it is). In trying to get so much story into one film they kind of fail in making a satisfying story arc and make a lot of the plot twist feel very forced. Visually a great film, with some amazing set pieces, action and great acting. Let down by the fact it tries to do too many things and doesn't do all of them very well. Hopefully with 4 years before part 3 they can write a tighter script.

Despite the complaining from certain critics and fans concerning another entry in the Spider-Man reboot, I was really looking toward to the sequel to the highly underrated The Amazing Spider-Man. Thankfully for me, it delivered.Andrew Garfield is once again on top form as Spider-Man/Peter Parker and his chemistry with Emma Stone is stronger than ever, who is absolutely perfect as love interest Gwen Stacey. Introduced to the franchise is Jamie Foxx as Max Dillion/Electro a scientist who idolises Spider-Man who finds himself turned into an electric-powered monster after a horrific accident. Also introduced is Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborne/Green Goblin, an old friend of Peter's who finds himself dying due to a supposed family curse.Some may complain about the characters of The Green Goblin and Rhino playing minor roles in this film, but since they were basically introduced to play bigger roles in future movies (unlike Spider-Man 3 where multiple villains were introduced and disappeared forever in the blink of an eye), it is perfectly set up to lead to the build up the group known as Sinister Six.So in conclusion, this is a highly worthy sequel, and makes me look forward to the future of the franchise.

I was stunned to see the blu-ray for this on sale for £1.60.I remember the criticism for this movie when it released. I saw the film back then and felt it was harshly criticised. I remember the criticism being that it was a bit complicated because there were two villains, and many characters.Anyway since I liked this movie I figured why-not for £1.60. Am glad I did buy it.I sat down to watch, and told myself "Right concentrate", because they said it's a bit tricky to follow. This was even though I remember liking when I saw it before. ... I need not have worried, as the movie flowed perfectly.There was a lot of good content, from Spidey action, to good relationship moments like with aunt May. It's paced very well, and was gripping from start to end.I think some of the early more negatively based reviews were after one viewing. Once seen twice is more than twice as easy to follow.If you're in doubt and want a top-notch action-hero movie, for this price, buy it.Damn shame they didn't make more Andrew Garfield, Spiderman movies. Damn shame.

Jaime Foxx is Electro, a man with serious energy supplier issues.After waiting in all Tuesday for an engineer who never showed up, he starts shouting at people in the street.Spider-Man arrives and tells him he wants to pack it in, and if it helps he has the address of a good comparison website.Electro says his computer is playing up and he's heard they are a rip off anyway.Spider-Man can see he's got one on him so sprays him with Silly String, Electro gives up after some goes in his eye, because as he says, that can be dangerous.Meanwhile this lad gets one of those hover boards for Christmas, not reading the instructions properly he gives his face such a bang he ends up in a different film altogether, as a kind of evil elf in Lord of the Rings.For some reason he says this is Spider-Man's fault, so arranges to meet him in the park for a fight.Spider-Man's Nan texts his ex that it's all kicking off, so she goes and says the pair of them want to grow up and I don't know what's going on.They leave it, Spider-Man says it's a good job I'm walking away from you and hover boy says yeah yeah and does the eyes and finger pointing thing.Or something, tbh I wasn't paying much attention.Anyway, like all Marvel films the subtext is daddy issues.There is also a bloke going round saying he's a rhinoceros, a sad indictment of the cuts to mental health services.