One revelatory exchange between Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker and Sally Field as Peter’s Aunt May is so poignant, it made me want to cry. There’s a lot going on here but very little that’s truly compelling.Ĭonversely, though, "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" is strongest when it’s at its quietest and most intimate. The whole endeavor just drags on and on, and any momentary thrills you may have experienced have long since passed. Just when you think it’s over, there’s another fight and another villain, another climax and another conclusion. It’s sufficiently giddy at first but eventually grows repetitive and wearying, especially as more and more stuff gets blown up real good. Spidey swings and swoops through the sky, gliding between tall buildings and around steep towers. Instead, working with veteran screenwriters Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci (" Star Trek," " Transformers") and Jeff Pinkner (TV’s "Alias," "Lost"), Webb gives us a film that’s densely plotted-sometimes confusingly so-with set pieces so big and glossy, they’re depleted almost entirely of any connecting sensation.
I want Webb’s " (500) Days of Summer" version of teenage superhero angst-and it exists here, but only in glimmers. The sporadic moments of recognizable human contact and emotion are the only ones in this latest episode of the soaring web slinger that truly take flight. Director Marc Webb’s follow-up to his entirely adequate " The Amazing Spider-Man" from 2012 feels even more like it’s just been unloaded from the assembly line.
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