JBang Reviews present: The Amazing Spider-Man 2. This movie had so much hype going into it. This “what I considered to be an unnecessary reboot by Sony” was continuing its attempt to make a perfect Spider-Man universe by releasing the Amazing Spider-Man 2, with more villains, more storylines and more cheesy one-liners. Hmmm…Sounds familiar. Didn’t Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 promise the same thing, as well as Joel Schumacher’s 1997 train-wreck, Batman and Robin movie? Well, yeah. And as bad as those movies were, this movie is no different. The movie starts off pretty well, Peter Parker’s new and improved costumed Spider-Man chases one of three of the main villains, Aleksei Sytsevich a.k.a Rhino throughout the streets of New York. It’s a funny and face paced action scene that stays true to the culture of Spider-Man. Unfortunately after that, it’s just character introductions. In terms of “Pros” for this movie, I loved how they handled the relationship between Peter and Harry Osborn. It was complex and truly expressed the fact that Peter was Harry’s only friend, and Harry was Peter’s only friend (Gwen doesn’t count because she’s Peter’s girlfriend). This dynamic made it even more heart-breaking when Harry turned in the Green Goblin. As a matter of fact, Harry was the best villain in this movie. The producers said that Electro would be the main villain for the film but evidently, I was disappointed with his portrayal. This is where the “Cons” begin. Before his transformation, we are suppose to feel bad for Max Dillion, played by Jamie Foxx, but instead, just like his character, he disappears. It’s his birthday and nobody cares, not even OsCorp, which make him work through the night when a freak accident occurs making him Electro, a supervillian that can control and create electricity. The fight scenes he has with Spider-Man are impressive and are heavily dependent on CGI. What upsets me though is that after Spider-Man confronts Electro for the first time in Time Square, he completely forgets about him and the next 45 to 50 minutes is spent on Peter trying to find out what happened to his parents and trying to handle his relationship with Gwen Stacy. Another thing I didn’t like was that Electro motives toward trying to kill Spider-Man and control New York are “unbelievable,” and by that I mean it seems he’s getting mad over nothing. His reaction is an overreaction, and because he overacts over the smallest of things, it makes it harder for me to feel bad for him. Electro could have been made into something stellar and actually scary but in the end, he just becomes a wasted opportunity and a failure of a Spider-Man villain. Overall, after the Time Square scene, the movie actually becomes dull and boring until the grand finale, and even that feels rushed. Plus, in the first “Amazing Spider-Man” movie, I had a problem with it being too short. In this movie I have a problem with it being too long, and for a movie being too long, I wouldn’t have had a problem with that if it had more action sequences and a solid plot to focus on, but in the case of this movie, it has multiple plot lines to get lost in, 3 scenes that total up to maybe 20 minutes of action and endless character development. The best thing about this film is a more comedic Spider-Man and the inclusion of a more vengeful-insane like Green Goblin. Other than that, the movie fails to “amaze” me. “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” gets a 2 out of 5.