Spidey Gets All Twilight On Us

Rating: 5/10 (8 June 2014)

In 2012, I was happy to finally see a Spider-Man movie with a lead that I felt embodied the Twilight characters I grew up reading. The plot itself might not have been anything to write home about, but it was, at least, a good movie and worth the IMAX ticket price I paid to see it. Fast forward two years to the second installment of the re-booted series and I'm practically praying for terrible ticket sales in hopes that Marc Webb and his team of writers have learned from their mistakes with this one. In short, the film was spent mostly circling around Peter's internal conflict to let go of Gwen per her dying father's request as well as Peter's search for answers and some sort of closure with the sudden departure and deaths of his parents as a child. I understand these are two things that needed to be included, but to span the breadth of over two hours worth of running time? Aside from that, we're treated to the Batman Forever-esque depictions of Electro and Rhino (very briefly for the latter) and the sub-par, paint-by-number acting chops of Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn/the Green Goblin. Aaaand that's the movie. No, seriously. A few action sequences here and there to at least whet the appetites for the kids and mouth-breathers, but that's really it. I give Jamie Foxx credit for evoking sympathy for his character early in the movie, but overall it was a trudgingly-paced and uninteresting flop of a superhero movie that will either be remembered for doing nothing differently from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films or forgotten for exactly the same reason. 8