A wonderful mess of a film - as lovably neurotic and unstable as the webslinger himself.

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2019)

The film may be too slick for its own good, overcorrecting the earnestness of Raimi's series, but it never poses as anything other than sensory overload. It's a confectionary creation that's likely to drive kids wild, and plenty of adults, too. As an adult, I've rarely fallen victim to my inner 10 year-old, but "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" consistently broke down the critical barriers that I've honed throughout the years. It's a sugar rush of a film and, quite simply, I liked what it did to my brain. It's often not able to see past its own nose, content to exist forever in the moment, but it's popcorn filmmaking in its purest form, and Marc Webb deserves all the credit in the world for making such a delectable cinematic cake from a line of incongruous ingredients. It's a wonderful mess of a film - as lovably neurotic and unstable as the webslinger himself.