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Rating: 4/10 (6 March 2015)

Now, I am a huge fan of Spider-man, I have been in love with the character since I was kicking the inside of my mother's stomach, but my God, this is a sin against humanity. Not up there like fatal stabbings (unless you count mentally) or anything thing like that, but a sin nonetheless.
I watched the First Amazing Spider-Man and really liked it: It was a different take on the story and felt really refreshing, like a glade air freshener trying to mask the putrid Bullsh*t that was Spider-Man 3 (Which I personally believe is Lucifer's pick for any film night he hosts). This sequel however, was nothing more than a Sony product vomiting cash cow that seemed to only have one goal in mind, Advance the story regardless of value in order to spawn more sequels for this now, dare I say, dead as f*ck franchise that Sony willingly ravaged just to get that money shot.
I am all for a huge Spider-Man franchise, but Goddamn. You cannot hurry up and sh*t out this crap just to make room for the gold you're planning to pull out of you ass.
Now on to my "Disagreements" with the film.
1. Countless plot holes: Electro's only motivation against Spider-Man is that he forgot his name? How could he right? in a city inhabited by 8.3 million people? Electro gets his powers from eels that live in water, and thats somehow his weakness? Why didn't Rhino just murder that child in the street along with Spider-Man? WHY would there be a crowd of people willing to stand near this mechanic behemoth with missiles, risking their lives, if not to conveniently witness Spider-Mans return?
I swear to God, an archer with Parkinson's is more consistent than this film.
2. Overload of Characters and their own plots: As mentioned previously, Sony basically used this movie in order to advance the plot (if thats what you call what they did here) so we could have more movies. In doing this, this film has become over encumbered with too many characters with too many subplots for one movie to tell, what follows is 3 or 4 (probably more, it got hard to keep count) different rushed stories about hollow characters that we haven't gotten enough time to give a damn about.
And 3. I do not give a sh*t about Peter's parents: Remember when uncle Ben was murdered in cold blood in the first Amazing Spider-Man? Yeah, Peter must not, considering he does't even look into past the first 45 minutes of the first movie. Instead, he's obsessed with finding out more of his piece of sh*t dad who he didn't even give a rat's ass for in the first movie. Also good to know I could have gotten to the movies 15 minutes late and still not missed a damn thing.
I gave this film 4 stars. Even with all that's wrong with the film, I still honestly think the Actors did a great job, given the material. I don't even blame Jaime Fox for the God awful puns (which are very reminiscent of Batman and Robin, I just threw up a little on my keyboard). Honestly I loved the entire cast.
Garfield Is a great Spider-Man, witty and clever with his quips. A lot of people say he's not a good Peter Parker, especially in this movie. In my opinion his Peter in the first movie was insanely accurate and, since becoming Spider-Man, has gained a lot of confidence in himself. Parker was not always the socially awkward nerd you see in the Sam Raimi Trilogy. He grows out adapts socially, especially after meeting Gwen.
Emma Stone as Gwen is perfect. Maybe it's the way the character was written, or Stone herself (I like to think a perfect combination of both), But This character is amazing. Gwen Stacy is smart, beautiful, willing to understand and overcome the roadblocks that come with dating Spider-Man, all while actually being a benefit to him on and off the battle field. It's rare to see a movie nowadays where there's a couple and neither really turns out to be the damsel in distress (Grant it, she's killed in this one, but not because she's an idiot.)
Garfield and Stone have an amazing chemistry which shows beyond the film, their scenes together are always well done and feel natural. This is one of the things that I loved about these new Spidey flicks, Which is exactly why I cried like a b*tch at the Clock tower scene.
I also absolutely loved Dane Dehaan's Goblin. It was creepy, visually terrifying, and just seem to work really well to me, especially with that nasally cackle he does. The only issue there is HE'S ONLY GIVEN 6 MINUTES OF SCREEN TIME LIKE THAT. Thinking back, all the things I really liked about this movie was a tease.
If you haven't watched this movie yet, and are a Spidey fan, you'll love it, look back, start to realize it was a cinematic mistake, question your decision making skills, watch it again just to make sure, then go on to say it is in fact terrible, but you still kinda like it (At least that was my experience)
If you haven't watched this movie yet and aren't really a spider fan, Watch daredevil first, just so you're reminded that it could be worse.