Entertaining but not amazing

Rating: 7/10 (18 April 2014)

My biggest gripe of the first film was that it felt too much as a rehash of the original Raimi spiderman film so I assumed the second one would be much better because it had the chance to form it's own story and universe, instead of closely following the storyline of previous films. And yes it was better than the first film but was it " amazing"? No, not yet.
The biggest fear I had was that it would had too many villains and story lines and I was partly right ( however it was not as bad as I thought it would be). Sony just wants to build its universe as quick as possible and set up as many story lines as possible but it's going too fast in my opinion. To build an natural superhero universe it takes time and effort. Don't try to cram too much into one film.
The best thing about the film are the performances of the leads. I adore the chemistry between Garfield and Stone. Stone shines as Gwen Stacy and she is one of my favourite parts of the new films. Jamie Foxx and Dane Dehaan were also great in their roles. Giamatti was a bit too much over the top but he was fun too watch.
The pace and tone felt a bit uneven. At times was the film even a bit corny ( but I guess that's the tone of the comics so I can live with that). The film was a bit too long and I would have like to seen more Electro ( his powers were awesome) and to take a little more time to develop the story of the green goblin ( perhaps span it over a couple of films). I personally would have cut Goblin out of the film ( not Osborn, just his transformation), added more Electro and cut a few scenes.
( Another note I would like to make is the weird use of the music: the music was really well done and sometimes even creepy,like during the appearances of Electro. Almost every time there was some dubstep along with Electro so that was really weird but it had an epic feel. Oh yeah , the music during the end credits didn't fit with the tone of the film)
7.5/10