It's fun. It's still 142 minutes long, which it doesn't need to be.

| Sep 9, 2024

While it doesn't attempt anything new (or incredible, or surprising), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 reaffirms the formula with Webb's solid direction and a couple of protagonists that look infinitely more comfortable in their roles. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 2, 2024

Despite the charm and chemistry between the two leads, this attempt to reinvent the series fails to ever justify its own existence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2023

While The Amazing Spider-Man 2 isn’t that much of an improvement over its predecessor, Jamie Foxx’s Electro (and the craft that accompanied it) was a big boost over how the first film used its villain.

| Jun 20, 2023

Several of the film’s components work really well while others drag the film down or hinder the storytelling. Perhaps the biggest problem is that the movie tries to cram in too much story and too many characters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2022

The romantic heart of the film has real potential, but it feels undone by the filmmakers' tireless mission to include the requisite trappings of a superhero epic—every last one of them, no matter how graceless or overcrowded their inclusion may be.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 15, 2022

There's this troubling sense about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 that it unfolds mostly in service of Sony's plans to create its own Marvel Cinematic Universe around the superhero and his archenemies.

| Jan 22, 2022

The majority of its 142 minutes are devoted to cross-film story arcs and subplots, without a lot of space left over from a strong narrative through-line.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 16, 2022

Two fantastic leads can't save this film from it's over-stuffed script with competing visions.

| Original Score: C | Dec 23, 2021

Far better than the first one and something that might improve in time.

| Dec 17, 2021

Hampers its blend of spectacular action and tender romance by being forcefully shaped into a sequel delivery service.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 9, 2021

The busiest superhero movie in recent memory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021

The necessity and significance of beginning the franchise anew falters even further.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 4, 2020

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 isn't the perfect Spider-Man film.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020

The major problem with The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is that it has a convoluted and unbalanced plot, clearly not learning its lessons from Spider-Man 3 about having too many villains in one film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2020

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 works best when Peter isn't wearing the trademark red and blue suit, when he's just being a kid. The superhero side, however, falls short.

| Original Score: C | Jul 8, 2020

There isn't that one obvious thing that doesn't work about this particular reboot. It's a lot of tiny things that don't work feeding into a tributary system of things that don't work, which eventually dumps into an entire ocean of not working.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 25, 2020

With appalling dialogue, slapstick humour, some bizarre aesthetics, and cheesy moments aplenty (Peter's Spider-Man theme ringtone or Electro beating Spidey up to the tune of "Incy Wincy Spider"), this is the Batman & Robin of the Spider-Man franchise.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 15, 2020

While The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is still more charming than The Avengers, it falls prey of trying to do too much.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2019

Spider-man's new costume looks swell, and Emma Stone is charming. Those are the only two things about The Amazing Spider-man 2 I didn't hate with the fiery anger of a thousand exploding suns.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 6, 2019