The Amazing Spiderman II Music

Rating: 7/10 (24 August 2014)

A modern film score is a mechanical puzzle. The Amazing Spiderman II music team exercises an eclectic mix of talent with modern music production and styles and orchestral themes. While the pieces are each awesome, the selections loose consistency to one another. Maybe that's the point because the story is brilliant and as the characters experience victory and defeat, so does the music.
The opening piece is fantastic where the modern meets the "trad" world and both work together resulting in artistry on the output channel. Then here come the trendy club sounds, glitches and other effects that over saturate the current market for video gamers and midnight dancers.
A beautiful sound design could have joined these styles together, but this is what is missing in this film as the score simply goes from one piece to the next. Maybe that's what the director wanted but it misses the consistency mark in sound design. Still awesome though.