![]() Life outside of the costume isn’t much easier for Peter. When Peter refuses to help and his power-hungry, morally dubious fellow board members kick him out of Oscorp, Harry turns to more villainous methods, ones that turn him into Green Goblin. ![]() ![]() He didn’t just inherit his father’s business, however he also inherited his fatal genetic disease, one that Harry believes can be cured by the same spiders that created Spider-Man. Meanwhile, Peter’s old childhood friend Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan, who will one day play a normal, well-balanced person, but today is not that day) arrives back in town, taking over Oscorp from his dead father (Chris Cooper, one of several actors – Felicity Jones as well – wasted with just a few scenes). When a Russian gangster (Paul Giamatti) isn’t blasting through downtown in a truck of stolen plutonium, the webbed warrior must face off against Max Dillon/Electro (Jamie Foxx), a dweeby former admirer who turns into a blue, electricity-fueled menace. Things haven’t exactly gotten easier for Spidey (the returning, effortlessly charming Andrew Garfield) since foiling the Lizard’s attempt to lizard-ize the city in the first film. The faces may be new this time around, but now even the mistakes all are the same. Now the desperate wannabe franchise has managed to blindly retrace the footsteps right into the same exact minefield. The first installment of director Marc Webb’s rebooted Spider-Man series was content to follow almost identically in its predecessor’s footsteps, taking in millions of dollars and handing out even more in cases of déjà vu. ![]() So, with the mistakes of the past franchise still fresh in everyone’s collective memory, here swings in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" with an excess of villains, misguided comedy, a stumbling tone and the kind of subplot overload that screams studio meddl … oh dear. I know doctor, we clearly need 50 ccs of reboot, stat! – with an excess of villains, misguided comedy, a stumbling tone and the kind of subplot overload that screams studio meddling. ![]() Just seven years ago, "Spider-Man 3" singlehandedly tanked Sam Raimi’s franchise – to the tune of a quaint $890 million worldwide. ![]()
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