Amazing Spider-Man 2 Unfortunately, director Mark Webb can’t keep up with the dullest and dullest storyline with Peter Parker’s parents, even more meticulously than the great Sam Raimi could not break away from the death of Uncle Ben. And although the studio hands managed to make the second “Spider” a real spectacular blockbuster with a bunch of action and special effects, melodrama-maker Webb is trying, out of his skin, just to stuff the film with snotty scenes and tearful moments.
I must admit that in this sympathies (and who now in their right mind would dare to scold emo-Toby in “Spider 3” Raimi after this?) Aunt May’s hysteria (still not canonically gray...) looks good, and Dane DeHaan plays out for a strong five, both the terminally ill Harry Osborn and his alter-ego – the supervillain Green Goblin. Yes, the transformation in fact fit into 1 film, the motivation is a little strained, while Raimi already three pictures developed this persona, but DeHaan still surpasses Franco in at least one facial expression of the Goblin game - how he laughs, makes faces, licks rotten sharp teeth, and of course the main canonical moment in the history of Spider-Man comics and spelled out, and played here incredibly worthy!
It is necessary in general to be incredibly happy and jump with delight that Sonya had the courage to do this. Yes, they removed the best joke about web design, leaving a bunch of stupid Spider humores, cut out a lot of what we saw in the videos, but retained all the comics and color. The second “Amazing Spider-Man” shines with colors, shines with neon lights, drowns in the juiciness of the picture and brilliant action scenes! Webb, as it were, listened to the dissatisfied with the first part of the fans: little action - now almost continuous drive, few villains - now as many as three + cameo "Smart" - Alistair Smythe, + Felicia Hardy (albeit not a canonical blonde, but played by incredibly beautiful Felicity Jones), + Dr. Kaffka performed by Chokasha in general the most important plus picture and the coolest character!
Of the villains, most attention is paid to Electro - schizophrenic Max Dillon, who fell into a pool of electric eels and gained the ability to control electricity. Despite the fact that both the Rhinoceros and the Goblin are many times better and cooler, the electric supervillain is presented, unfortunately, as a central antagonist. Fortunately, he is a continuous walking / flying spectacle, so it is a pleasure to watch his fights with Spider-Man. Alexei Sitsevich, aka Rhinoceros, perfectly played by Paul Giamatti, appears at the beginning and at the end of the film, spurring Spider to be a symbol of hope for New Yorkers and beyond.
By its tonality, the film came out very uneven, it throws it into the melodrama with Gwen Stacy, then in search of the truth about his parents, and even the return of his best friend, who turned out to be terminally ill, knocks Parker off the rut. I want to note the beautiful letter with photos to John Jameson in the Daily Bugle and his answer, and there are many similar Easter eggs and references, ranging from the tentacles of Doctor Octopus and the wings of the Vulture in Ozcorp, ending with the mandatory cameo of Stan Lee, with whom, it seems, for the first time, they do not delay, but launch at the very beginning of the film. Gwen's ghost father also has at least three cameos per movie plus a flashback about the promise, but the promised Uncle Ben and Flash Thompson, it seems, just cut in the editing room from the picture. But we have finally been told who this mysterious “character in the shadows” wearing a hat is.
Spider-Man has the most colorful palette of villains of all Marvel superheroes. It is not for nothing that Sony has already announced separate films about Venom and the Sinister Six, I would like to also about Black Cat solo, Jones is very good in this role. And Spiders have always essentially made villains, in the sense that it was the interesting and cool antagonists who created the entire main fan. In the sequel film, it certainly succeeded. Goblin and Rhinoceros are now very much looking forward to the triquel.
Action has become very inventive. Spiders have come up with a variety of uses for the web. And at the expense of the electric villain, we were also shown all sorts of experiments Parker on adaptation to the enemy and brainstorming Peter and Gwen on how to make a suit and web shooters electrically resistant, and in general how to defeat Electro. Mark Webb even made canonically huge white eyes on the Spider-Man costume instead of the idiotic yellow small glasses from the first film. However, for some reason, the very change in the design of the costume and mask in the film was not explained. I guess I didn’t have time.
It is considered to be the longest Spider-Man film in terms of time. However, it looks, perhaps, the fastest and shortest set, in which another 30-40, or at least twenty minutes of different scenes are missing. The film is incredibly dynamic and cheerful, but from this uneven and a little confused. However, along with Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2, this sequel from Webb can deserve to be considered one of the best. It turned out really comic and visually effective! A real entertainment spectacle, which should be a quality superhero movie!
8.5 IS 10
(After watching the deleted scenes on DVD, I hope to raise the score to 9/10 in the future)
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