THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2: Overdressed Dish

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2014)

Last one was 6/10 and this one's a 4 so Mark Webb has notched up a total score which Raimi did in Spider-man 2 alone. I have seen worse superhero movies but in an era where these are a rare sight, this one's a first. The untold story which was to be told in the first movie is not at all earth shattering until it has some major implications in the future movies. So many cheesy one-liners that for once I thought it was 1997 & I was watching Batman and Robin though there were some scenes which were genuinely funny. With this movie, Mark Webb has proved that superhero movies can be all about love and that is not a compliment. He has ruined my favorite Marvel Superhero. He should stick to 500 Days of Summer material. I, for one, am very happy that he's leaving after the third movie but I'm also afraid that he has run this one so far into the ground that it kind of makes me skeptical about the third. What I do know is that there will be a long mourning period in it. Coming to the villains which were wasted, all three of them. A villain should be purpose driven and I failed to find any in Electro. What surprised me was how he took no time to take control over his powers including flight. Dane DeHaan's acting was ridiculous initially but later he got his grips on the role. The Green Goblin was very good but it was too little and too late. Andrew Garfield and Sally Field's performances were good and that's about the only thing good about this movie. Now the CGI - What else do you expect in an age where almost everything is being produced graphically and looks life like. To put it in a way - Michael Bay's movies have some of the finest detailed CGIs but does that make him a good director? The slow motion 360-degree panorama Spider-Sense is good but if you do that with every fast-actioned sequence then Mr. Webb you are just increasing the runtime of your movie like we used to fill up pages with irrelevant materials in our reports just so that looks nice and fat. If anyone has noticed it, the power grids were having sound equalizer effects on them for the background music when Spidey and Electro were facing off at the grid - Lame and stupid. The Runtime - Characteristic of a good movie is that you don't realize how quickly time flies by but here I was constantly looking over my watch waiting for the movie to end. The Dark Knight Rises was 165 minutes and I didn't want it to end but this 142 minutes felt like eons because Mark Webb has given such unnecessary attention to finer things that the big picture was completely forgotten. Peter's web shooter getting fried and him toying with different batteries and then Gwen and Peter fighting over who did their 8th standard studies better and Peter and Gwen breaking and making up n times and on and on. All this time wasted could have been focused on character building. And yet again some critical looking scenes from the trailers are not in the movie. What goes on in Mark Webb's mind? I bet he has shot 2 completely entire movies.