The Amazing Spider-Man 2 also beautifully sets up future films in the series, which at this point includes two confirmed sequels and a proposed Sinister Six movie. But it's the chemistry between Stone and Garfield – crackling with a very different kind of electricity – that gives the sequel its emotional weight. New villain Electro (Jamie Foxx) lends the new film most of its thrills and spills. She comes into her own in the sequel Star Trek screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman give her hopes and dreams beyond being Parker's girlfriend, as well as her own crucial part to play in Spider-Man's continuing development as a superhero. One particular scene at the film's denouement is so perfectly and soulfully underplayed that one cannot imagine anyone else but Garfield pulling it off.Įmma Stone's slightly insipid Gwen Stacy seemed to pale in comparison to Kirsten Dunst's fiery Mary Jane Watson in the earlier instalments. While predecessor Tobey Maguire is a fine comedic actor with self-effacing googly eyed charm, there are moments in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 that require a starkness and delicacy that might have been beyond him. Without giving away too much of the plot, these new developments also retrospectively explain and endorse Andrew Garfield's appointment to the role of Peter Parker. With required Spidey origins story segues such as the death of Uncle Ben and that fight with Flash Thompson out of the way, it dives headlong into new territory with an audible cry of relief. Webb's sequel has careered to the rescue of on of Hollywood's most controversial of revisited superhero sagas by finally delivering a story audiences have not seen before. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 currently has a rating of 83% "fresh" on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, while the Guardian's Xan Brooks reports that Webb has delivered a "savvy, punchy and dashing" sequel.
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But the studio has turned round matters with its $200m (£120m) sequel: all those greenbacks are now firmly trapped in Spidey's web, waiting for Hollywood to collect them as the movie drives all before it at the box office. Two years ago, Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man failed to come up with anything remotely fresh in its perfectly adequate retelling of the wallcrawler's origin story. I was one of those who saw Sony's move to revive Spider-Man on the big screen just five years after the failure of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 as a wholly commercially driven decision. They say if you throw enough money at a movie, it is bound to stick.
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