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REVIEW: THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2: RISE OF ELECTRO

Genre: Action/ Fiction/ Comic Book/ Super Hero

Running Time: 142 minutes

Rating: 4.6/5

When the first of Marvel’s The Amazing Spiderman came out in 2013, I decided that this would be the best version of the Spiderman story told over the decades since its conception. If I had any doubts about that then, the second installment in the series has surely wiped them away. I’m sure few, maybe even none will agree with me when I say that this is Marvel’s best film release since The Avengers.

During his day-to-day superhero activities, Spiderman saves the life of Oscorp employee named Max, who ends up idolizing him. When a freak accident at the workplace grants Max the superhuman ability to transform into and control electrical currents, he unintentionally places the lives of civilians in danger and is immediately banded a villain. Spiderman, in an attempt to save the day, is pitted against Max. Battle ensues and Max is captured and kept in Oscorp’s secret Special Projects labs for research.

Meanwhile, Peter Parker’s childhood friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan, famous for his lead role in the movie: Chronicle) returns to New York upon his dying father’s summons. His father explains to him the truth about the fatal genetic disease he has inherited along with the family wealth and the research at Oscorp for a cure. Harry takes over as C.E.O. of Oscorp and through various discoveries revolving the lab research, he becomes convinced that the only thing that can save him is Spiderman’s blood. However, Spiderman refuses to give Harry his blood and Harry, enraged, forms an allegiance with max to seek revenge.

Look, I won’t go any further with that synopsis because it would only involve giving a shitload of spoilers…and I hate giving spoilers.

The thing that impressed me the most about this film, the reason I found it better than several other comic book/super hero films was the use of not one, but three villains of different origins in one film, all with remarkable presence. Sure, Spiderman 2 had two and a half villains (Harry as played by James Franco only counted as half in my books :-/) but only one truly stood out. Here there seemed to be no end in sight. Just as we think we’re done with one monster, another, worse than the last crawls right out of the woodwork.

Spiderman Vs Electro

Spiderman Vs the Green Goblin

Rhino: The last of three villains in The Amazing Spiderman 2

I also really like that The Amazing Spiderman works with the same themes from the previous Spiderman movie series but gives the story a whole new twist. It’s like hearing a story from someone who heard it from someone who read about it on the internet from someone whose friend saw it all, except all these people are really good story tellers albeit inventive. If you think you know just how thgis is going to go, understand right now that you are wrong. The Amazing Spiderman has a slightly darker appeal that its predecessor but with the original 20th century quirky fun “Spidey” version of Spiderman. There’s a lot more focus on the daily life of the superhero than just Peter Parker. This is a story about Spiderman, not about Peter Parker’s adventures as Spiderman…if I can put it that way.

I don’t know if anyone notice, or if anyone will care at all: There was an uncanny resemblance between Electro and Dr. Manhattan from The Watchmen, not just in their creation stories but also in physical appearance and abilities. Who came first? I haven’t read any of the comics. Both have blue hairless humanoid forms, can materialize and dematerialize in and out of thin air, can fly and have high IQs. Probably just sheer coincidence.

Dr. Manhattan

When the first film came out, I was a bit disappointed about Emma Stone playing Peter Parker’s love interest. I felt that while Andrew Garfield was a step up from Toby Maguire at least because of his boyish good looks (I can’t help my fan-girl ways), Emma Stone was no fair replacement for Kate Hudson who played Mary Jane in the Spiderman Trilogy. She’s cuter, I think, but she’s much less va-va-voom and a little too cutesy. But now I know I had it all wrong. This version of Peter Parker’s love interest is much more believable. There seems to be a more natural real-life relationship between the two, so much that I’d compare them to Tony Stark and Pepper in Marvel’s Iron Man films. We don’t just see that they’re in love because we’re told they are, Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield do a mighty fine job of convincing us of it. Well, I suppose it helps that they have (or had, at this point, who knows) an off screen romance going on.

Favorite scene? Frankly, I had a hard time choosing. Not because they were so many but because the film maintained a consistent level of awesomeness scene after scene. There were literally only a few seconds or minutes of plain old conversation and because of this I must say that Marc Webb knows how to keep the audience thrilled. Reminds me of how during the entire first forty minutes of Man of Steel, there was really nothing going on and I’d even began to consider walking out to buy a hot dog.

I can never get enough of watching Spidey swinging through New York City, tumbling up in the air, dangling on nothing but strings of web. There’s a good amount of it in this film, and the viewer gets to experience it for a while as if on Spiderman’s back. Do not underestimate the effect of perfect angling because it creates the kind of impact that enhances the viewer’s perception. I kind of understood why Spiderman’s always shouting “woo-hoo!” as he’s swinging through the concrete jungle of NYC; it looked truly exhilarating. In those angles, it feels like we are really in there and we wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Yeah, fan service. Thank you, Webb and crew.

I have to comment on Spiderman kissing scenes. Remember in Spiderman: Edge of Time, when Mary Jane kisses Spiderman? They’re out in the pouring rain. He’s just saved her life again…or something. There he is hanging upside-down in front of her, mere inches away. She closes in and asks to see his face but he refuses. So she reaches up with her fingers and gently peels of his mask but only enough to reveal the lower part of his face. He doesn’t resist. Then she kisses him; slowly, sensually. Of course you remember! It looked mind blowing! It definitely goes down in history as one of the most iconic lip lock scenes. I want to kiss Captain America (Chris Evans) in 69 like that. *Winks at Chris Evans* Email me Chris! The kiss that comes closest for me is in The Matrix: Reloaded when Persephone asks Neo for a kiss in exchange for the Key Maker. When he’s done and he pulls away, she makes this face and bites her lower lip…like nothing in the world would ever feel as good as his kiss.

Mary Jane kisses her masked hero in Spiderman: Edge of Time

Now, I was hoping that The Amazing Spiderman would have had something just as spectacular for us by now albeit not necessarily exact. Surely, it’s not too much to ask. If they could come up with all that, what’s one little kissing scene? Looks to me like kissing scenes everywhere are completely neglected and just washed over really quick. Maybe they could get some ideas from the fan fiction world. There was a (slightly, very slightly) memorable kissing scene in The Amazing Spiderman 2, but only because the view of the New York City lights at sunset from thousands of feet up in the air was beautiful. That’s about it.

There’s a major, game changing, unexpected character death towards the end of the film and I would have been completely blindsided by it if I hadn’t already ran into all the internet posts about it. This was certainly the highlight of the film (Not sure that’s the word I should use). I’ll say no more; spoilers and all.

The ending unveils a whole new set of villains we should expect to see in the sequel(s). There’s so much to look forward to in the next Amazing Spiderman film.