As Peter, he does endless variations on moody. If I had to pinpoint where this epic goes south, I’d start with the tonal shifts.
Amazing spiderman 2 movies movie#
Am I the only one who hates the word Amazing to describe a movie that isn’t? Just asking. And 3D scenes of Spidey swooping around the steel canyons of the Big Apple are, well, wow. And his Aunt May, played by the wondrous Sally Field, still resists telling him. Peter is still obsessed with finding out who offed his parents. All thanks to director Marc Webb, whose 2009 romance, (500) Days of Summer, is a model of the form. The script, by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Je Pinkner, has them speak impossibly cute dialogue about breaking up to make up, but Garfield and Stone (lovers onscreen and off) make you believe they mean it. Garfield, 30, and Stone, 25, are a little old to be playing high schoolers. And that’s Emma Stone staring those saucer eyes up at him as Gwen Stacy, the daughter of a police chief (Denis Leary) who died begging Spidey to leave his daughter the hell alone. That’s Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker, the nerd-turned-crime-fighter in spandex. To start on a high note, the two young stars who sucked us in two years ago are back. And the team responsible for dressing up the corpse is just gifted enough to fool us maybe one more time. Despite the law of averages, audiences still think there may be life left in the Marvel hero with the web thingies.
You say this: The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the fifth Spidey movie in 12 years, is overlong, underwhelming, unnecessary and sure to be a hot ticket. What do you say about a torpid, top-heavy sequel to a 2012 reboot for which there was really no crying need in the first place?
It’s a clear case of diminishing returns.
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