This Spider-man is amazing and electrifying

Rating: 9/10 (14 May 2014)

I went and saw this movie last week and enjoyed it immensely. I also enjoyed the previous Amazing Spider-man film, and quite frankly I liked all three of the previous trilogy as well. Okay, I am a huge Spider-man fan so almost anything with him in it is going to be something that in all likelihood I am going to enjoy. Heck, I even liked that live action series they did back in the 1970's featuring our favorite wall crawler in Los Angeles where he essentially shot huge ropes and fought criminal types. So yeah, I am probably not the most unbiased reviewer when it comes to our friendly neighborhood Spider-man. Still, I really like where this particular series is going, though surprisingly, this series seems like it is you either really love it or hate it. Kind of like last year's Man of Steel film. Still, to me, this film and the last one kind of capture the essence of Spidey a bit more than the previous three, in that when Spider-man is doing his thing, it just seems more like out of a comic book. Then again, the previous films were well done too and were first, so often times first trumps for no other reason than they were our first experience.
The story has Peter Parker/Spider-man fighting crime and having an on again and off again relationship with Gwen as his strong love for her and his need to keep her father's promise keep colliding. A man who for the most part has gone unnoticed takes an extreme liking to the wall crawler and then there is also an extreme shakeup at Oscorp as Norman Osborn's son has returned into the picture. All are linked by Oscorp as an accident will soon spawn a new deadly Spider-man foe as well as a father's gift to his son.
The villains were done very well. I liked Jamie Foxx's Electro whom many complain did not look like the Electro from the comics they read. He most certainly did not look like the Electro from the main series, but he does look a lot like the one from the ultimate series. There is also the Green Goblin and the Rhino for Spider-man to contend with as well, but Electro is by far the main one this time. All looked cool, but the best part were the fights, where James Garfield just does a better job at trash talking the enemies. Tobey made a good Peter Parker, but he never exhibited Spider-man's constant prattle that in the comics at times unhinged the enemies and lead to many a victory for Spidey, or made the enemy explode in a rage that made his trash talking backfire big time!
I am enjoying this new series of Spider-man films; though, even I admit they came a bit too soon on the heels of the first trilogy. I also hate it that the first set of films never had any closure, and I hope that will not be the case here. I find this series is doing a better job of establishing super villains, as there is a source and reason for them that is tied together, while the first one it was all pretty random and the coincidences just a bit too far fetched. However, I enjoyed those Spider-man films a lot and I am enjoying these a lot. Would it be cool if Spider-man could be in the universe of Marvel characters Disney and Marvel is establishing, absolutely. With that said though, I think Sony is doing a pretty good job. The main thing I disliked about this film is the strange inclusion of an X-men clip in the credits. I saw no point to this as it had no ties to the film I had just viewed, I read what was originally supposed to be included and it was a lot better than the very random clip I got. Overall, though, Spider-man made for another fun, summer film; however, once again I am a Spider-man fan so they really did not have to do much to impress me admittedly.