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Malena

Why did they do a remake? I wonder............

8 years 4 months ago

Amazing Spider-Man 2 feels a lot like reading a pile of Spider-Man comics, complete with ongoing subplots that will only get resolved later. It's a weak structure that can test one's patience, though I imagine it'll play better as a trilogy to marathon on DVD. Ultimately, it means there are too many climaxes. Spider-Man defeats Electro and then has to deal with the Green Goblin, and then we're into the epilogues, and back to the Rhino, and it all gets so LOUD. (Ok, I should admit right now that I was fighting off a fever, but I think even objectively, the last act is all explosions and Electro's dubstep powers. I wish I'd have had a remote.) Which isn't to say I didn't enjoy it. As with the first Amazing, it's the human moments that shine. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Sally Field are all incredibly affecting actors, and Field in particular made me tear up in almost every scene. I really liked the Peter-Harry relationship, and the action usually looked great (Electro's CG puppet was a bit jerky) and had good banter. Gwen Stacy is more than the damsel in distress, but Spider-Man's insistent partner in crime-fighting (Emma Stone is the best thing to happen to a character that was only ever a pretty drawing). I would have taken the Rhino sans suit, just as a crazy trucker, and as for Electro, he's actually made into a potent and varied threat (and somewhat sympathetic one), which is about as far from the Max Dillon of the comics as he can get. But heavy, real heavy. It's not without humor, but oof, they got Spider-Man's angst all right. By the way, the mid-credits scene being an X-Men: Days of Future Past tease? Complete bull.

8 years 10 months ago

Jordan95

Despite the decidedly mixed reaction to 2012's reboot, I appreciated the film although I still very much preferred Sam Raimi's debut film. However, it's an entirely different matter when it comes to my opinion on this film. Besides the obvious argument that a sequel to an already unnecessary reboot is even more unnecessary, this film still had an unlimited amount of potential in terms of character development and exploring intersecting story lines. And to be honest, it does try to do this, maybe too much on the intersecting story lines aspect, but it never manages a balance between an individual story and the overarching storyline already slated for the upcoming Sinister Six spin-offs.

The result is a mess of a plot, an utterly waste of over-the-top in a bad way cliché villains with even more cliché motivations, numerous jarring tonal shifts which already affect the film when it's started barely ten minutes ago. For instance, the opening chase sequence featuring an throwaway cameo by the great Paul Giamatti, here utterly wasted as an constantly screaming villain with a terrible Russian accent, shifts constantly between trying to be suspenseful, funny, dramatic and violent all at once. Certainly the fault lies in Marc Webb's inconsistent direction throughout the entire film and his inability to decently and creatively stage an action sequence and Pietro Scalia's choppy editing, which takes out the entire momentum of this 142 minute long film, trying to make an epic superhero film out of one that really didn't need to be all that big.

On the positive side, most of the acting performances are still solid, particularly Garfield, Stone and Field, even though they can't make miracles with the cliché-ridden script they've being handed to. DeHaan's performance suffers from being provided with a whiny and underdeveloped character, and Jamie Foxx, another great character actor, is also terribly wasted here as the one dimensional Electro.

But most importantly, because of trying to be so many films at once, forgets the most important element the previous Spider-Man films had, even Spider-Man 3, despite its undeniable flaws; the human aspect. The only scenes that really touch this are any between Garfield and Stone, but despite their undeniable chemistry, they also end up becoming nothing more than a tiresome on and off couple, which undermines the proceedings since we already know the ending of it.

9 years 2 months ago

Earring72

Very disappointing!!!! Overlong, messy story and weak villain. Great special effects though

9 years 4 months ago

dorkusmalorkus

As my little sister would say, cheesy A.F.

9 years 5 months ago

amir147

Much better from the first one but still its kind of joke! :/

9 years 9 months ago

Christian Andersson

Quite possibly one of the worst movies ever created.

9 years 9 months ago

nawi

A lot worse than I expected, and I wasn't expecting much. The first one was decent from what I remember, but this was didn't really offer anything. The humour was non-existing (the "jokes" were awful). The action sequences were boring and didn't have any tension. Jamie Foxx wasn't given an opportunity to have any interesting scenes.

None of the characters had any depth and whole movie was just plain boring. And the movie was full of boring Hollywood cliches, for example a German cliche doctor.

9 years 9 months ago

MrDoog

For so much action this film was incredibly dull.

At least half of it felt as though I was watching a computer game instead of movie.

9 years 10 months ago

jerry warton

"amazing" my foot! I don't give two hoots about this pandemonium! Blockbuster = so-so to crap.

9 years 11 months ago

DisneyStitch

If one word could describe the movie as a whole it would be "overstuffed." There are way too many villains and things happening that even the nearly 140 minute runtime seems like not enough. You've got villains being created, villains showing up into the series for the first time, and even characters being written off entirely all within one film. The movie tries to juggle 7 balls at once and ends up dropping almost all of them, but the dropped balls overshadow the remaining ones that managed to be kept in the air.

10 years ago

Joker of Gotham

This film is basically a set up for the third movie or a possible spin off.

I have to be honest and admit that I liked the movie, I actually liked this movie more than the first.

Garfield was better this time, I liked the comic side of the hero, and the special effects used in the end that was visually fantastic.
Love Emma Stone, Love Gwen Stacy.

The villains , I did not care about Electro , I didn´t like his character, but Dane DeHaan was a lovely surprise, he is a good actor ( Lawless / The Place Beyond the Pines ) the work that he did with his character was one of the highlights of the film .

I do not like to see trailers of movies because I feel they show too much information about the film, and in this case showed several important scenes.

Overall I liked the movie, of course it has its flaws, could be much better, I was waiting for a Spider-Man movie as good as the first two of the original trilogy, but this was not that, yet.

3.5/5

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10 years ago

jtvanbuskirk

This is the Spider-Man film I've been waiting for my entire life. I couldn't have loved it more.

10 years ago

KuroSawWhat

From the opening that involves silly-billy Spider-Man juggling 20 canisters in goofy poses, I knew something was off. By the time they trotted out the German-accented scientist to... be a German-accented scientist(?), I knew this was a purely comic-book affair. That is to say, it feels like the script is 20 pages long and filled with "BIFF!" & "KA-POW!" pictures.

If all you're looking for is Spider-Man swinging from buildings, a few explosions, muddy CGI, and a bit of teenage necking, then I'm sure you'll enjoy The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

If you're looking for a compelling story, sub-plots that are tied up by the end, competent direction, or a good musical score... The Amazing Spider-Man 1 is on store shelves now.

Even the color-scheme of this movie seems reminiscent of Batman & Robin. Was that on purpose? And why is there a commercial for a different movie in the end credits? I'll give them credit, I've never seen that before! Good grief....

10 years ago

Francesco Leoni

They tried to make Peter Parker's character seems like the stereotypical idea of a nowadays teenager, resulting the film to be a boring non-sense spiral of incomprehensible dialogues and situations.
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10 years ago