Film Review #33 - The Amazing Spider-Man 2

     Spider-Man, Spider-Man, radioactive Spider-Man... The Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes two years after a reboot that received mixed reception. The sequel goes for a bigger and better approach, and mostly succeeds at it: Andrew Garfield's performance as Peter Parker/Spider-Man is great and closely resembles the web crawler from the comics, and his chemistry with Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy are the highlights of the film. I thought they managed the time distribution for the three villains fairly well, though I felt that the Green Goblin was shoehorned in for the climax of the film (an incredible, and emotional climax that was probably one of the best scenes in the film franchise so far). The movie was obviously trying to cram in a lot of different plot lines to set up future movies, especially  the Sinister Six movie coming up soon, but overall it made good use of it's near 3 hour runtime. I'm really excited to see what Sony has next for the future of this franchise.