No Amaze from 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'

The lean Andrew Garfield nails Parker's inherent awkward-yet-earnest goofiness. He is mischievously charming while romancing his real-life girlfriend Emma Stone on screen and at the same time he touches your heart in the powerful scene with Sally Field who plays his Aunt May. The modestly radiant Emma Stone enthuses subtleness into her character, Gwen Stacy. She brightens the stage when she is with her beau. Similarly, Dane DeHaan stimulates the screen as the young damaged and arrogant billionaire who is defenseless and yet spiteful.

Jamie Foxx, in his one-dimensional avatar is impressionable. But unfortunately his imprint along with all the other the characters in the film have a fluid charm because in the larger scenario, the characters are pretty superficial and are treated just as comic book characters, without depth. Here, the fault lies not with the actors but with the script delivered by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinker. The orphaned sub-plots loosely tie up the story in totality. Unfortunately, no justice is done to extract the optimum out of each of these story lines as well as the characters involved.

The background score and music by Hans Zimmer is lively and invigorating and different from his previous works. The numbers, "I'd love you more than you are gone" along with "It's On Again" are worth a mention. Visually, with fine production values, it is a treat to watch cinematographer Daniel Mindel's work shot on 35 mm film in the anamorphic format. These frames seamlessly merge with the computer generated images and are layered well by Paul Massey and David Giammarco. The 3D is pretty ineffective in nearly ninety percent of the film. It's only in a couple of shots when the shrapnel flies in the air that one flinches. Otherwise Spider-Man's plunges et al work equally well in the 2D version.

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