Again The Amazing Spiderman Isn't Deserving Of Its Own (Sub-)Title.

Rating: 5/10 (18 September 2017)

Amazing Spiderman 2 is Sony trying to do The-Avengers-Thing: shared universe building and setting up. Why do this for something that's as self-contained as Spiderman and why do this when the film rights to the character and his relatives were (initially) very limited to just the central character himself and rather limited villains to choose from. Well, they decided that The Amazing Spiderman 2 was going to be Spiderman: And The Set-Up Of The SpiderVerse Or Something. IT tries and succeeds at SOME good moments here and there, but the whole adds up to an uneven and overstuffed and not wholly satisfying experience.
Spiderman is one of the greatest characters to have ever been conceived in comics: and it took til Spiderman: Homecoming to bring the character back to his roots of being a high-schooler trying to juggle superhero life with his personal life and not worry about building a bajillion sequels to a start-up franchise. Unfortunately, all the stuff Homecoming DIDN'T have to worry about is exactly what ruined The Amazing Spiderman movies in the first place.