Amazing Spider-Man 2 Review And Discussion(Be Warned of Probable Spoilers)

[TheSkeletonMan939]

I really didn't like this movie. The actors were all great, but the music was awful, the story was awful... it was as if they combined Spider-Man 3's ambitions with the story of The Amazing Spider-Man. My main issues:

- Why the hell did Electro and Rhino have to be shoehorned into the story? They didn't add anything at all.

- More nonsense about Peter's parents. I can't believe they spent ten minutes showing us exactly how they died. I don't care. No one does. Just say they died in a plane crash and leave it at that. And why all the stuff about Richard's secret train track lair? It went absolutely nowhere.

- If you're going to introduce the Black Cat, call her Felicia Hardy instead of just Felicia.

- So, I kind of thought Peter would confront his Ben's killer in this one... I guess that'll never get around to happening in any of the movies at this point.

- Damn. I cannot believe the writers were so amazingly lazy that they stole Electro's origin story from The Spectacular Spider-Man. In fact, Harry being the Goblin rather than Norman seems directly lifted out of the first season of TSSM too. Hmmmmm......

- Geez, Spidey, Max looked up to you and all you did was kill him without remorse in the end. And it was his birthday too.

- That stuff with the planes about to crash into each other was distracting and stupid.

- Why is there a clock tower right next to a power plant? Seriously, does anyone have any explanation to this?

- In The Amazing Spider-Man, Uncle Ben leaves a message on Peter's phone that he doesn't listen to. At the end of the movie, Peter lets someone he loves die and renounces his identity as Spider-Man. But he listens to that phone message during a montage and becomes Spidey again.

In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Gwen says a speech that Peter doesn't listen to. At the end of the movie, Peter lets someone he loves die and renounces his identity as... waitaminute, doesn't this sound familiar?

- That stupid kid at the end... Rhino shoulda trampled him.

- Where's my post-credits scene? The one with Norman's head being cryogenically frozen in a Mr. Freeze-esque fashion (look it up - it's true)? Don't tell me it was replaced with the Days of Future Past BS. #%*# you, Fox Studios.

- Remember when Harry was clueing Peter in to how he and his aunt were being followed by OsCorp? No? Well it was in the trailer (all of them, I think) and I guess they just removed that rather interesting and important subplot from the movie.

- Know what else they cut? Harry asks his dad "What about Peter?" to which Norman replies, "Not everyone has a happy ending." This implies that Harry originally KNEW THE WHOLE TIME that Peter was Spider-Man, if the placement of the scene never changed during editing. Which would have been great for the dynamic between them - it would be especially tense for the audience the first time Harry asks Peter for Spider-Man's blood.

- This whole movie was just a two-hour advertisement for the movie no one wants - The Sinister Six. Yuck!

Like I said, the actors were all great - even the one for the Rhino and his exaggerated accent. They make the crappy dialogue work, but that can't save the movie. The relentless CGI makes it all seem like a video game. There's no real plot, the music is lackluster (SO MUCH DUBSTEP), and holy **** was Electro rapping during his first appearance? I seriously think he was.

And they lifted so much out of The Spectacular Spider-Man. Electro's origin story, the Green Goblin's identity (though it was proven to be Norman in the show) and the idea that all evil comes directly from OsCorp.

That aspect works in the show because a lot of it isn't accidental, but when silly Curt Connors accidentally turns into Lizard using OsCorp technology, and bumbling Max Dillon accidentally turns into Electro due to OsCorp technology, and Gwen happens to work at OsCorp, and Richard happens to have been on the run from OsCorp... it gets so silly.

After the rather boring ASM movie, I was hoping this one would be an improvement... but it makes me despise this franchise even more. At least Spider-Man 3 was entertaining. This was mind-bogglingly boring. No wonder reviews are so mediocre, and it's set to be the lowest-grossing Spidey film of all time. I'm hoping they'll get their act together for the next one... but I doubt it.