Welcome back Spidey!!

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 2014)

Friendly Neighborhood Spoilers Ahead...
You thought The Amazing Spider-Man was good, you have not seen anything yet.
Andrew Garfield is back at Spider-Man and is in true from this time. It seems like hes having way too much fun playing the hero, not too bad if you have to have a day job. The role of Peter Parker seems tailor made for him. Emma Stone is back as his love interest Gwen Stacy, their chemistry (they are dating in real life) is plainly visible here. It almost seems like they are not acting towards each other. Again, if you have to have a day job, its not too bad.
But what this movie has in GREAT supply is FUN. What the franchise was missing after the ORIGINAL Spiderman way back in the day. Yes, unlike Toby Macguire, Spider-man is FUN again. Constantly wise cracking, lovable and trying to make his way in a world that doesn't know if it should love or have him, and making fans along the way.
This time Spiderman goes up against Electro, Rhino and The Green Goblin. Each is a newcomer to the franchise, but ones I'm sure we will see again, especially with the namedropping towards the end.
Spider-man I have no problem with at all, its the villains, they are the problem. Its what I call the 'Batman Syndrome' all over again. Let me explain better with my usual rant....
1-Has no one learned from the Batman franchises of old? Too Many villains bog down the story and eventually one gets stepped on by the other. This is the case with this movie also.
2-Rhino, hes in the first 5 minutes and the last 5. Thats it folks. We are not given any time to really care about him, or find him an evil criminal mastermind. Hes just Paul Giamatti doing a really stupid Russian accent. Thats it. Hes just there for comedy at the start and at the end you wonder 'How did he break out? How did he get the suit? Why does he hate Spider-man so much? There has to be a bigger and better reason for him being around in the next one'
3-Electro. First off, he felt like Mr.Freeze from Batman and Robin(Almost looked like him too)with the corny electric jokes. "It's shocking" "You'll get a charge out of this" "You called the thunder, heres the lightning" WE GET IT! ELECTRICITY! Calm down man!
4-Electro again, his mild mannered self Max Dillon seemed a whole lot like the mild mannered Edward Nygma (from Batman Forever, thus why I call it the 'Batman Syndrome') Works for company on an experimental project, stepped on by his bosses, no one pays him any attention, then Batman..er Spider-Man shows up and he becomes obsessed with him. Then a tragic 'accident' turns him into a bad guy hell bend on getting revenge on the hero that 'ignored him'. Nope, never been done before.
5-The Norman Osborne angle was a little strange. "Hey Pete, haven't seen you in years and years, but come on over, let me show you top secret projects my company is working on and tell you that I'm dying." Save it for Maury, huh.
6-Peters father, first in the plane before they died: Was he James Bond in a former life? For a scientist type hes got some Liam Neeson moves and keeps on going and going like the Energizer bunny. That and for a plane crashing, he sure had really good Wi-Fi to upload all those files.
7-Second with Peters father, he had this secret lab in the subway in a former presidential boxcar. IT'S ALL OVER THE INTERNET AND NO ONE ELSE KNEW ABOUT OR FOUND IT? But Peter does a 5 minute search (2 to find the answer and 3 to check FaceBook) and finds it like that? New York police must be the worst.
8-The Green Goblin at the power plant. He looks at Spidey and Gewn for one second and 'You're Peter Parker!'. Honestly, that could have been a coincidence, or if it was that easy how come no one else figured it out sooner. Hell, Harry had Spider-man in his house only a few inches from his face talking to him and STILL had no idea it was Peter.
9-Gwens death. I was glad to see this ACTUALLY happened like in the comics, but also it added realism to the movie. I don't care what super hero you are, you will not always get the bad guy and save everyone. Frist Captain Stacy in the first one and now Gwen. WHat keeps us coming back to Spider-Man over and over is the fact that hes us. Just a dude who wants to make a difference any way he ca and not always being able to live up to everyones expectations of him.
10-That kid at the end. Really? The kid gets under a barricade and no one runs after him? The crowd and police just stand there like 'Wait Billy don't go...Oh well'. Plus, the police are having this huge shoot out only a few feet from millions of innocent by standards and apparently a really crappy barricade?
Having said that, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was AWESOME! It is the reason we go to see movies and the reason Spider-man will always keep bringing us back to him. Good old fashioned super hero fun.