The Amazing Catastrophe!

Rating: 3/10 (20 May 2020)

I could tell I wouldn't like this movie from the fact that it opened up with a bad plane fight scene invloning Peter's parents. Other than that however, the movie starts out strong! The opening montage is probably the best stuff this movie has to offer, we get introduced to our villain and we see spidey in his best with his new (gorgeous) suit. Annd then it all goes downhill.
Where to start with this! One of the main problems this movie has is it's got waaay too many plot points! Electro becomes a villain and attacks the city, Spiderman needs to work out his relationship, Harry wants to cure himself, Peter wants to find out about his parents, Captain Stacey haunts Peter, Aunt May wants to be a nurse and Uncle Bens killer is still on the loose! Though you wont have to worry about that last part cause THEY DON'T ADRESS IT. The reason Peter put on the mask initially in the first movie was to find his unlces killer. And he never does! In either movie! Did they flat out forget about it?
Other than that Electro is laughable. He falls into a tank of eels, ofcource that fixes his tooth gap and gives him powers aaand now he doesn't view Spiderman as a friend anymore and he suddenly decides that *yeah I'm gonna be a god*. Seriously? Plus his design is awful. Rhyno is a joke it's best to pretend he's not even in this. And Harry... where to begin with Harry? First of all, the performances here are fine, and the cast is great but Harry is so badly acted for some reason. It's hard to watch at times. Also his whole arc makes zero sense. His father tells him he must find a cure for the plot diseas.. oh excuse me the Osborn disease or he'll die like him. Ok.. doesn't he have like at least 30 years? The guy is in his early 20s and his father is like in his 50s if not 60s. Why is he in such a rush? Also when he asks for Spidermans blood, why would Spiderman decline? He's supposedly gonna die very soon anyways! Yes your blood might kill him, but not giving him your blood WILL MOST CERTAINLY kill him! Also I love how Harry approaches Peter cause *he takes pictures of Spiderman so he must know him*. Harry that's not how photography works!
On another note, we have Peter making fun of every situation. I know he makes jokes in the comics, but he doesn't sacrifice human lives so that he can make the jokes! And don't get me started on his parents! When I saw Peter accidentally breaking a calculator only for it to reveal coins that he used on an abandoned subway station that revealed a secret wagon-lab where his father had arranged some expository dialogue for him... I think I lost a few IQ points that I will never take back. The romance is also incredibly annoying. And even worse than Electro is the Goblin who looks like a crack addict and who Spiderman doesn't even take seriously. The ONLY reason he's in this is so they can remake Gwens death for cheap fan service.
But what bothers me THE MOST is that Peter being Spiderman has almost NO impact on his life. Yes Gwen dies because he's not willing to let her go in order to protect her, but it's not like he didn't have a thing with her. Other than that he's great! No money problems, no not being able to pay the rent, no failing classes, no impact whatsoever! The conflict between Peter and Spiderman is pivotal to every Spiderman story, and here it's almost non existent!
The ok things about this movie are some nice fight scenes, some ok acting and some decent cinematography. Also not gonna lie the cgi is spot on. On every other department it fails, miserably! It's like the looked at everything that made Spiderman 3 bad and said *let's do that but even worse this time round!*. Worst Spiderman movie and it's not even close. 2.5/10.