ATTENTION – SPOILER FREE!

The best thing I saw last week was Amazing Spider-Man 2! Yes Amazing Spider-Man 2 was a spectacularly good time. Now as I am going spoiler free on this one it will be kind of short as that really limits what I can talk about, but I can talk about what made it great. Quick side note, there are actually articles already up on various sites talking about “franchise fatigue” and the “not quite amazing spider-man”, these are absolutely ridiculous. Boxofficemojo.com has ASM2 estimated to have pulled in $92 million domestic and an additional $277 million foreign and people are writing about it like it’s a failure. I don’t understand, it’s like no one on the internet ever wants to write anything these days that isn’t negative. Well except me I guess.

First the super easy part; Garfield, Stone, and Field once again all turn in great performances. It’s so easy to fall in love with Emma Stone anytime she turns on that smile. Both Garfield and Field brought out the big guns and laid some feels on the crowd, there were some tears in the theater I saw it in. Paul Giamatti was a breath of fresh air as Aleksei Sytsevich, I liked seeing him play a badass, no wine sipping for the Rhino. Dane DeHaan gave a talented and interesting performance as the Harry Osborn of this new franchise, some of you might know him as the sad kid turned bad guy from Chronicle, and his take on the Green Goblin was as creepy as it was different. And whether you like his choices as an actor or not you got to love the fact that he was on a flying snowboard. But the big gun of the flick is Jamie Foxx.

In all honesty I was vocal when I saw the first images of Foxx in the blue makeup; he just looked so smurfish that it had me a bit scared. But there is a huge difference between the first publicity stills released and the final cgi’d product, in the flick he looks great, the electricy coursing through his body makes the blue look superb, though the looks take a back seat to the character. Foxx makes us care about Max Dillon which in turn makes us care about Electro as you see him almost being shoved down the path of a villain. Unlike the Green Goblin, it’s a path not of Max’s choosing and it does have dire results.

So yeah, great acting, amazing special effects (except for one shot of Giamatti’s face), and some frenetic fight scenes make for a really entertaining film. I gave it the same rating on IMDB I did the first Amazing Spider-Man, 9/10 stars. It’s fun, it’s a superhero movie, it’s shocking! Leave all your bull shit and baggage at the door, unlike all these whiny ass movie critics, and just go and enjoy it, on the big screen, it is well worth your price of admission. And if you want to converse about it after you see it go hit me up on Twitter at @anthonybachman, I’m always willing to talk Spider-Man.