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About the best thing one can say about this fiasco is that Webb has taken only two films to reach the same exhausted, exhausting endpoint that Raimi required three to achieve. It's progress, of a sort.
As a former trainer, the reviewer feels the spider-bod should be rockclimber-ish. All that pulling and hauling should result in some truly epic lats, and Popeye forearms.
'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' will certainly make a bazillion dollars, but after you sit through it - all 142 minutes of it - it's very hard to work up a compelling reason that it needed to exist, aside from the aforementioned bazillion dollars.
If she could just get away from him she would be safe. She would be free. She wouldn't be falling, falling, falling, needing him to catch her just one last time, and failing.
The studios and the producers have to split the difference -- between excellence and adequacy, between darkness and light, between seriousness and fun. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 might have been split too far. It doesn't taste like anything.
Even the twist feels like it comes up short of its intended emotional weight, and it's hard to think fans will remember this installment as anything special 10 years from now.
Over-stuffed with plot and consequently struggles to invest the audience in any of it, since there's so much to get through and so many future films and spinoffs to set up.
