Unpredictable and great

Rating: 8/10 (3 May 2014)

The standard keeps getting higher and higher for this type of movie because so many have been made. Its getting very hard to show the audience something new they haven't seen already. I think most of the negative reviews here are a result of that.
One thing I liked about TASM2 is how it doesn't follow the typical "safe" and very predictable story arc formula from start to finish. The movie is very unpredictable and you really don't know whats going to happen from one scene to the next. The movie plays like a real comic from start to finish with no formal beginning or ending. It just flows. When it starts you feel like you are right in the middle of the movie and when it ends it feels the same way. Like an episode of Breaking Bad. This is unusual, but refreshing. It really plays like a comic book.
Now the problems:
1. Electro was kind of a lame villain. But this is just my personal opinion of him overall. He isn't worthy of being a movie villain. I would of left him in the comics and found someone more interesting. To follow the Lizard with Electro is weak.
2. A different world. In some ways this movie didn't feel like the same world as the first one. Kind of the feeling you get when a franchise changes directors, but we still have Marc Webb so that's clearly not the reason.
In the first movie there were more practical effects and Spider-Man was more frail. He got injured more easily and was held back easier. In this movie he is back to the level of the Raimi movies where his is almost invincible. WTF? He doesn't get injured throughout the entire movie. This is a first for a Spider-Man movie. It seemed Marc Web wanted to focus more on his emotional pain.. so he didn't give him much physical pain.
3. A bridge movie. This movie felt more like a bridge from the first movie to the third movie than its own stand alone. It spends the first half tying up or continuing story lines from the first movie and the second half setting up for the 3rd movie.
BUT.. maybe Marc Webb is doing this to avoid another Spider-Man 3. Third installments have a reputation for sucking and a big reason they usually suck is because by the time you get to the third movie, there isn't anymore story to tell or character development to do.
Like I said earlier.. the movie starts and ends very abruptly as if its just part of a bigger story. Maybe Marc Webb is trying to make the series one long movie instead of the usual connected stand alones we usually see in franchises.
4. Too much slow motion. It was done too often and got annoying by the 100th time.
But I enjoyed the movie overall. Still better than the Raimi films. Andrew Garfield is light-years ahead of Toby Maguire.