THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (2016)
Featuring: Andrew Garfield; Emma Stone; Jamie Foxx
Director: Marc Webb
This is the first and only sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man. Initial plans for numbers 3 and 4 were eventually scrapped in favor of the all new Spider-Man: Homecoming which I reviewed recently. Apparently the general consensus at Sony Films (who owns the franchise) was that Spider-Man is the Peter Pan of the superhero world and should therefor always be portrayed by a teenage(ish) actor. To put it blunt: Andrew Garfield simply grew too old too soon.
Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is quite content with his life as Spider-Man; happily swinging along between the skyscrapers of New York while saving people and apprehending criminals. But when Gwen (Emma Stone) starts to expect more from their relationship and a seemingly unwilling new villain by the name of Electro (Jamie Foxx) appears on the scene, life gets much to complicated to our young hero's liking. And this forces him to make some tough choices.
Not quite as good as the first one but still not bad at all. However, one does get the feeling that this particular outing of the Spider-Man character was aimed at a more mature audience. Maybe the bosses at Sony were right: Spider-Man should remain a young snot-nosed punk rather than becoming a responsible adult. After all, that is exactly how we know and like him since forever from the comics.
My rating? Still 3 out of 5 stars.
Trailer link:
Jamie Foxx as you have never seen him before...
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