The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Director Marc Webb proves himself adept at drama and romance in this sequel (Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy are kind of adorable). But he botches the action elements and tries to juggle too many villains—among them, the goofy Electro (Jamie Foxx), the Green Goblin (Dane Dehaan) and the robotic Rhino (Paul Giamatti). Electro starts off as Max Dillon, a geeky electrical engineer at Oscorp Industries who gets transformed into some sort of bluish, see-through monstrosity after electrocuting himself and falling into a tank of electric eels. He has the ability to move and stop things with electricity, which makes no sense, and disappear into wires and sockets, which also makes no sense. Yes, this is a comic book movie, but this stuff is just stupid. There’s a big, dramatic occurrence deep in this film, and that sequence is the best thing in the movie, and it should’ve ended directly after it. Instead, Webb and his writers force a terrible finale that feels tacked on, and destroys any dramatic tension. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13