Scrambled Spidey Mess with Batman & Robin horror flashbacks

Rating: 4/10 (29 April 2014)

You know when you have great ingredients to cook a great meal but somehow manage to mess up your dish entirely? Well here we have great actors, great writers, incredibly talented C.G.I artists, an enormous budget and best of all one of the most iconic Marvel super hero of all time and yet somehow they managed to make an unstructured and unbalanced mess out of this movie.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 goes from comedy to intense drama to high speed super hero slow motion action scenes. It takes you on a mood swing trip as if you were a monkey on speed. At first you think: "Hell yes! Spider-Man! I am in for a ride! Bring it on!" But suddenly you realize that this movie is completely out of balance. The tone of the whole movie leaves you in a state of confusion. It doesn't seem to be a streamlined movie at all. Where does it go? Do we laugh now? Do we cry now? What is all this nonsense? Of course they have promoted this movie through the roof with showing off trailers and video clips of high tech 2014 ready C.G.I action scenes. It's safe to say that TASM2 looks stunning with crazy super slow motion micro detailed comic book flavored scenes. But at some point it was as if the different C.G.I scenes had to compete against each other to stand out, and therefore they became somewhat of a distraction of the whole flow of the movie. This is also the problem with basically all other scenes. The drama isn't bad, the acting isn't bad, it's good in fact. But they don't build up to it, they just magically appear. We suddenly get pulled out because of yet another deeply romantic love scene or yet another highly dramatic plot twist and I ask myself so many times during this movie: This doesn't make sense at all, and why am I seeing this now at this precise moment, please just carry on with the story! Didn't Marc Webb ever heard of the principle: "Less Is More?". It's more like "more is bigger and better equals more drama, more comedy and let's trow in another bad guy!" with this flick.
In all seriousness, it really felt as if there were too many people involved in making decisions in this movie. I imagine Marc Webb trying to do his own thing in his little working room and suddenly some big corporate Sony guy comes in and says: NO WE NEED MORE ACTION AND MORE SUPER BAD GUYS..! And... errr... EXPLOSIONS!!! And there, we have Marc Webb all teary eyed wanting to just make a 500 Days Of Summer Spider-Man remix. Well Marc, you can't just do your emotional thing and trying to mix and match this with big budget superhero movies. If there is one company that has it down (and I passionately share the opinion of many other true believers) it's Marvel. So Marc or Sony, if you guys are reading this, you have told your origin story of Spider-Man (again), but now is the time to give back the torch to Marvel so we can continue to see Spider-Man in a much greater light.
So my score is 4 out of 10: 3 points for great actors (1 for Garfield, 1 for Dehaan and 1 for that subway pigeon that took a giant dump on Emma Stone's head) and 1 point for that Asian guy who made the realistic Spidey fart effect during the swinging scene in daylight NY.