Good, just good

Rating: 7/10 (11 May 2014)

As a Fan boy, I thought this was the best comic book movie ever. Because it really felt like I was watching a comic book. From all the Spidey poses to the new costume and the amount of villains just making cameos. The story in itself felt like it was written by everyone's favorite cameo actor, Stan Lee.
Andrew Garfield is a great Spider-Man. The right built, the right banter, he even talked like a kid from queens, it was great. By far the best part of the movie.
The music was pretty good as well. I saw Pharell Williams straight from the Despicable Me soundtrack had a lot to do with it. The music decides to make Spider-man a little more heroic which was interesting.
As a Fan boy, I did kind of feel that Spider-Man's origins are getting to big and complex. I know this is a block buster but some things in the movie seem to be leaning away from the basic concept that Spider-Man is a local vigilante. He's not a globe trotting super hero like Iron man. The movie is similar to Man of Steel in which his origins drive the story and the villains he faces.
It's funny that some people felt that the original Spider-Man trilogy was campy and yet in this movie they made Electro very campy. I like Jamie Foxx just fine as Electro, in fact I think he does the combo of dangerous and campy very well, but like Spider-Man, they changed Electro's origin to be bigger than just a crook as if this would make him better. That's why the Rhino was my fav villain in the movie as he was just a simple criminal given awesome powers.
As a regular movie goer, none of this might matter to you, but that's why Amazing Spider-Man 2 is not ideal. If you are not familiar with the comic book, the large amount of villains in it and the top notch story that reflects the full on relationship of Gwen and Peter might not be worth the extra 23mins this 2hours and 23 minute movie gives.
I got to be honest, I like Spider-Man 2 better than Amazing Spider-Man 2 as a Fan boy it was amazing, but as a film Geek my mind has not changed about it being too soon for a reboot.