The Amazing Spiderman 2 | *SPOILERS*

Andrew Garfield returns as Spiderman in the follow up to The Amazing Spiderman reboot along with Emma Stone who reappears as Gwen Stacy. I believe the film is set two years after the events of the first film and Spiderman still continues as always to help protect the people of the city by catching wanted criminals before they start to do some real damage. Though these acts of heroism come with some negative side effects, such as the reappearance of Gwen Stacy's dad, Captain Stacy, haunting Peter when he's in dangers way, foreshadowing the events that are about to come. With Peter's vivid visions of the late Captain Stacy, he decides to end his relationship with Gwen because of the guilt thats weighing him down, a promise he made Captain Stacy can never keep. In the mix of things we have three new villains coming into play, the beginnings of the Green Goblin, Electro and Rhino and with Peter's conflicting emotions he tries his best to defeat his arising enemies.

The back and forth between Peter and Gwen's relationship was exhausting, they were either together or apart, unsure of where they stand Gwen tries to enjoy life without being in the presence of Peter even though both of them wanted the same thing they simply do whats best for each other.

Dane Dehaan as always gave a spectacular performance of the troublesome Harry Osbourne, a wealthy heir who suddenly becomes the boss of Oscorp. As the previous Spiderman movies go Harry and Peter have been friends since childhood, though for the reboot Harry doesn't appear until the sequel so the audience is given a quick recap of the pairs childhood relationship. Harry's downfall escalates quite quickly, no longer a happy go lucky guy, he's now become obsessed to find the cure for his longevity since we discover he is slowly dying, something he's had first hand experience with and certainly does not want to repeat it onto himself.

I very much liked the combination of the dub step with every beat of Electro's destruction and especially the hum of Electro's vocal chords, another thing that was impressive was the whispering music that coincides with Electro's paranoia. Very recently it seems films are finally taking into account how the importance of adding music or scores into a film can really intensify the scenes thus building up the suspense for the audience.

Then obviously towards the end we have the build up to a super villain army, founded by none other than Harry Osbourne, as he so desperately wants to take revenge on Spiderman.

As most followers of this film would know that Mary-Jane's scenes got cut from the entire movie, I'm guessing they did this because they didn't want the audience thinking that they were replacing Gwen, and maybe her scenes would of been irrelevant to the plot. But I am looking forward to watching them in the deleted scene section of the DVD. Seeing as they are most likely adding Mary-Jane to the cast in the next film I wonder who they'll cast, considering Shailene Woodley who was originally cast is also starring in her own film franchise, Divergent, it might be hard to film in-between films. Though you never know the studios may come to agreement now that Shailene Woodley has the Jennifer Lawrence effect in the film industry.

I was quite surprised to see that they weren't any extra scenes during the end credits something that is very rare among Marvel films, though we were giving a very edited down clip of X-Men: Days Of Future Past, something that I've never seen happen before during the end credits. I was actually confused about this part because I thought they were planning a Spiderman and X-Men crossover, something that I have not heard any news about, but not to worry because it was confirmed that it was just an advertising segment and nothing more.

Definitely go check this film out if your a Spiderman fan, though I'm hoping you already have because of my very spoilery review!

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I saw The Amazing Spiderman 2 on the UK release day, April 16th 2014.

As always this is an honest review.