They practically remade Spider Man 3

Rating: 3/10 (6 October 2014)

They ended the original series after the 3rd movie went down as one of the worst sequels of all time and was greatly disliked and realized they had to start over. They did that in 2012 with The Amazing Spider-Man which wasn't amazing but it was still a decent movie with a superior cast then the original series but an inferior storyline generating mixed reviews amongst the public. Every superhero movie has an ending that will set up a sequel and for two years there has been a lot of hype about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and talk about what would happen knowing the storyline of the comic book series.
Marc Webb directed this one as he directed the first and he did a decent job as a director but however his writers did him a disservice and wrote him what is probably the equivalent of Spider Man 3 for the new series. A terrible sequel with too many story lines that felt completely unbalanced. Like Spider Man 3 there was too much attention on the romance and the fact that there was multiple villains in it that didn't get enough attention in the story and the villains were mostly bad. They had three villains in it just like Spider Man 3.
The story of Max Dillon (Jamie Foxx) becoming Electro was completely unnecessary as it added nothing good to the film and in the end was pointless as it also even looked bad when he became Electro. So this guy named Max who works at Oscorp gets saved by Spider Man and then idolizes him for it then wants to kill Spider Man after a misunderstanding that occurred after the accident that turned him into Electro. Very lousy idea and it's surprising that Jamie Foxx who is an academy award winning actor would agree to play that part. If they took that part out of the story and just left all the focus to Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) that would have been way better. That story had potential but it wasn't given the amount of attention it needed. The story of how he is developing his father's illness and needs to save himself could have been really good if it hadn't been shadowed over the really terrible parts of the movie. They had to move through it too fast and they couldn't develop it more due to the fact that there were so many stories. He could have been a good villain if he were the only one. I also think the fact that Paul Giamiti is playing the Rhino is a little weird and I thought he looked cheesy. Knowing now that he will be in the next one doesn't give me high hopes for that one either.
This is a series that had so much potential considering the cast and how well Marvel has been doing but they are taking it in the wrong directions. These two have almost been like kids movies. They have been much cheesier then the last series. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone together are way better then Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst but if only they had been given good things to work with around them. The new series just isn't worth it and they can't perfect Spider man it seems. When they have good stories they get a bad cast but once they have a good cast they don't have good stories. Spider Man is also such a cool superhero and it's sad they haven't perfected it yet. It doesn't look like it will as this series has the potential to get worse as it goes along.