GREAT Superhero movie that thrives on Garfield-Stone chemistry

Rating: 9/10 (4 May 2014)

I said it after the first reboot and I'll say it again. Stone and Garfield blow McGuire and Dunst out of the water in terms of believability, acting, charm and just overall watch-ability. These movies are also more serious in tone and darker than the originals. After seeing this sequel, it just solidifies this as the better series by a mile IMO. I'm not sure how most people can still argue it. McGuire was such a mopey faced, pathetic spiderman, where as Garfield plays the role perfectly showing cockiness at times, emotion, struggle...
Elektro surprised me... I thought he would be horribly overdone and laughable from the previews. But, I thought his scenes were great and he was a pretty powerful adversary to Spiderman in the film. The Green Goblin was fleshed out much better in this film as compared to the originals also. No stupid metal Halloween costume this time around. It was legit, real, and very dark. Well done.
Stone and Garfield carry the movie with their amazing chemistry, though. I know they're dating in real life and I"m sure that really helps, but these 2 just really click every moment they share the screen. It really gives the movies heart... I've said it all along that the relationship in the movie is just so much better than Spidermans and Mary Janes in the first. In that movie, it was so clichéd with Mary Jane only taking an interest in Parker once he developed the Spiderman traits and humiliated her star QB boyfriend. This relationship is so much more believable and better acted.
There were a few things that kept this movie from being completely perfect. They needed to develop Max a little better before he became Elektro to make us care about the character a little more. He was great as Elektro, not so great as the pathetic Max. Paul Giamati (A great talent) was really bad as Rhino(although for a VERY small portion), they could have left him out of this movie.
I don't understand the harshness about too many villains?? Rhino was literally in the movie for 10 minutes maybe, and never perceived as a major villain... Green Goblin comes in at the very end and ties everything together IMO. He also brings some good emotion and surprise from his scene that really give this movie the emotional punch towards the end and even makes it better a whole.
Perfect? No, but pretty damn good!... Bad like some people are saying? Just crazy..
Hands down better than the originals, and one of the best Spidermans to date