Very entertaining, but not compelling.

Rating: 6/10 (30 April 2014)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 manages to give a nice and entertaining 2 hours and 22 minutes, but don't expect this movie to be on par with recent comic adaptions like Avengers, or Captain America: The Winter Soldier on a pure "movie enjoyment" level.
While The Amazing Spider-Man 2 does deliver on the entertainment part, it fails to deliver on the same level in character development and generally speaking anything besides the pure entertainment part.
The one thing that Amazing Spiderman 2 suffers the most from is sadly similar to Spiderman 3 of the former trilogy. It is too packed with villains, plots and story lines that on their own would have made for a very nice story if developed correctly, but due to the amount of them in one movie, all of them fall short of being really "compelling".
Some people tend to argue exactly the opposite, that the amount of story lines and plots were delivered well and it wasn't too packed, but fail to mention the downside of it. Almost all interactions between Spider Man and the villains in this movie and even some characters that are supposed to have a deep impact on his feelings and decisions, are limited to 2-3 encounters over the whole course of the movie. Of course this makes it easier to build in several plots and story lines, but it doesn't manage to deliver them compelling enough, that you actually have the feeling this is a fundamental story part at all, and then it's already over before you really had the feeling it began.
SPOILER AHEAD! For example they try to build a pre relationship between Electro and Spider-Man that is actually meant to describe the reasoning behind Electro wanting to fight Spider-Man later on. This is done through one encounter scene between Spider-Man and Max months before he becomes Electro which lasts for around 45seconds. Their relationship is put to the test on their first encounter fighting and ends with their 2nd encounter fighting. There literally are no more than those 3 scenes I just mentioned between Spider Man and Electro. The very same thing goes for Peter and Harry. They meet once to give the audience the sense of "they are best friends". Then they briefly meet another 2 times before Harry is out to kill Spider Man.
SPOILER END! While I do get that they managed to implement several plots w/o the movie feeling overcrowded with information, that's also the biggest flaw in the whole movie. There is not enough information to make the whole characters and their actions reasonable but if they had done that, the movie would have had the problem of being overcrowded with information. So either way...they were out to lose that one.
Besides this I only had a problem with the very very many logical errors in some basic things happening during the movie, especially towards the end.
But odds are, if you liked Amazing Spider Man, you will also like Amazing Spider Man 2. It does deliver on entertainment, but fails to deliver on compelling story, so just be prepared for that and you're good.