Slightly better than the first but still disappointing!!,

Rating: 2/10 (18 September 2014)

I didn't enjoy the first Amazing Spiderman movie, I thought it was just a lame attempt at trying to revive the series and starting back to the origins story but then they added the story of Peter's parents into it which made it all the more confusing. Despite this I was willing to give the second movie a chance as Spiderman has always been my favourite superhero.
Firstly I am so happy that they changed the costume this time as the first film's suit looked horrendous. Secondly I like the way Spiderman swings through the city as these scenes look far more realistic than the scenes in the Sam Raimi series. However none of that can save the rest of the movie which like Spiderman 3, goes overboard with more than 2 villains with not nearly enough screen time to develop their characters.
A good example is Electro played by Jamie Foxx, he does a decent job with what he's given, however you don't connect with the character because he doesn't really have any motivation for going after Spiderman, in fact Spiderman saves his life early in the film and an unfortunate accident at work (Oscorp of course where else) turns him into Electro and while at first you feel sorry for the guy, his motivation for suddenly wanting to kill Spiderman is not explored very well.
Unfortunately Harry Osborne played by Dane Dehaan is not any better, we learn that he is suffering from some sort of disease which has been passed on to him by his dying father Norman Osborne and somehow through some exploring through the Oscorp computer learns that a spider gene could cure his disease which not surprisingly then requests Spiderman's blood which he refuses and he becomes the evil Green Goblin. Again there is not much motivation for Harry to suddenly turn evil let alone being able to work the glider and become the green goblin.
The less we talk about Rhino the better. A lot of the scenes with Peter and Gwen seem to go on forever; yes they do have chemistry and all but we don't really need to keep seeing the two deciding if they want to be together or not. Andrew Garfield's take on Spiderman is decent and he brings all the wisecracks that are common with the character however he makes a horrible Peter Parker, you don't feel sorry for him and he doesn't seem to be going through difficulties in life (with the exception of wondering what happened with his deceased parents).
In contrast to Sam Raimi's Spiderman movies, Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker was far more likable; you wanted him to succeed both at work and his life, and while on the subject where the heck is J Jonah Jameson!!! He was only mentioned briefly in this movie when Peter says that he sent the pictures via E-mail, please how low can you get. Everyone knows that Jameson is very vital in the Spiderman stories as he is the character that makes life complicated for both Spiderman and Parker, but we don't get any of that in Garfield's Spiderman.
Overall it's decent enough, certainly an improvement from the first film but it doesn't touch the greatness of the Raimi Spiderman movies which are far superior, even the much maligned Spiderman 3.