1 Line Review: Average. Delivers the expected.
Yet another Spiderman movie. Yet another super hero movie. Or so I thought but after watching Captain America 2 I had changed my opinion about any superhero movie being yet another boring sequel since Cap Amrika 2 was good. But alas, this came out an average entertainer. Captain America 2 was still much better (as a sequel).
To be frank, with a run time of nearly two and half hours I was very exhausted by the end. Another frank confession is that I liked the Spiderman cast more than the Amazing Spider-man’s. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dofoe looked more into the grove. Peter Parker’s love for Mary Jane Watson seemed full of chemistry. In comparison, Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spiderman, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy and Done Dehaan as Harry Osborn did not really fit their respective roles. I personally felt all of them were not into the role 100%.
Over Amazing Spider-man series I would watch the Spiderman (any 4) movie. Anytime.
Having said that, the Amazing Spider-man 2 had its good parts too. Like the many funny scenes involving Perter Parker and her aunt and Spider-man’s talking over phone which stuck on front of a truck. On the emotional scale also it did click at a few places but over-all the story did not feel so convincing to me. The villein (Electro) became a villein of Spider-man out of nowhere or shall I say just because of a small miscommunication. Was not convincing enough to build a full movie with a weak villein.
This movie has come out in 3D as well as 2D. Unlike earlier times I will not ask you to refrain form watching it in 3D. It has its 3D moments, especially when Spider-man jumps around from one building to another. The effects were awesome. But then unlike a movie like Avatar where there is so much to show in 3D, these movies will not aways have incredible scenes to show in 3D for the entire duration. At times I even took off the glasses to ensure I don’t get a headache from watching a 3D movie (which makes the print darker).
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Another interesting part about this Spider-man movie was that it has a lot of revelations about the past and what really happened to his parents and why really they had to leave a young Peter and moved out for good.
I would recommend you watch this movie without any comparison in mind and you will like it. Don’t forget to take the younger generation with you.
Bonus: Watch the cast dance into the Ellen Show.