A great peter parker movie

Rating: 10/10 (27 April 2014)

This movie was great, but does have it's faults. Everything you loved about the previous movie is here. The action is exciting but doesn't outstay it's welcome, the humor is fresh, the romance is very heartfelt, Andy Garfield absolutely kills it as Spidey and Emma Stone is a great Gwen Stacey. Another great thing is that almost every character has a redeeming quality, even those that you're supposed to hate. Although the villains are evil, you feel sympathy for them in some way or another. For instance, Harry Osborn despite being evil, just wants to cure himself of his disease and Electro simply wants to be loved and notice. It's great to see villains that don't wanna take over the world for the sake of taking it over or just take over the world period. That being said, the villains are surprisingly scary for a goofy spider man flick. You can definitely tell that Electro is damaged and was even psychotic before he got his powers, giving him quite a gollum-like feel and Harry is portrayed as the conniving, calculating and methodical villain that he should be.
As I mentioned before, this film seems to let Spider-man take a backseat for a story that is mainly about Peter Parker. the film mainly concentrates on Peter's demons and his desperate longing to know who is father really was along with trying keep Gwen safe, which is fantastic to see. Not many superhero movies do this, opting to focus on the man behind the suit and ultimately giving him more depth. I don't know about any of you, but when I go and see a spider-man movie, I usually like to see a little more than just people beating the sh*t out of each other, so this film definitely delivered on that. After all, would the superhero be there without the man that embodies them. As I said, Andrew Garfield is a fantastic Spider-man, and I think he might very well become the actor with which the character is most identified. He is the Spider-man that the world needs to see: wisecracking, confident, cocky but vulnerable, caring and with a deep love for those around him. Not to demean Tobey Maguire's performance, but I always thought that his portrayal was always a little bit bland and at some times, dislike-able.
However, the film does have some faults which were a little bit of a disappointment. For instance, sometimes the fight scenes are a bit stale and don't flow as well as they did in the Sam Raimi trilogy, the film does focus a little too much on the romance side of it and I wish that Spidey was in the film a little bit more. But all these faults aside, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a great film, a great sequel and does what ultimately all superhero movies should do: Show what the man behind the mask is really made of.