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Thursday, 19 June 2014

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 [2014]

The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb returns for the second part in what is proposed to be a quadrilogy.
Joined by Fringe & LOST writers Alex Kurtzman, Robert Orci & Jeff Pinkner, Webb expands the relationship between Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy into something much more flourishing and even more heartfelt than the original film.  With the heart of the story in place, comic book films need some worthy villains and that's where things get a little jumbled up.  Jamie Foxx and Dane DeHaan do a fine job at portraying the main baddies, Electro and Green Goblin, but it's the gaggle of other villains slipping in through the cracks that confuse things a bit, some are slapped right in your face, while others might only go noticed by comic book nerds.  It's a little unfocused plotwise but carries a heavier emotional weight that many felt was void from the first film.

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