Yes, Jack and I like the popcorn movies, and this is one of them, where our hero graduates from high school, kisses his girlfriend, is nice to people, and battles a new villain (anyone who says the movie is all about three bad guys has been smoking something from Colorado). Andrew Garfield (last blogged in the last installment The Amazing Spider-Man) seems to genuinely enjoy his super powers, unlike conflicted Tobey Maguire, who had the title role in 2002, '04, and '07. Emma Stone (most recently in Gangster Squad), reportedly still Garfield's real-life main squeeze, returns as Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man/Peter Parker's main squeeze, and their chemistry is still evident. Jamie Foxx (last in Django Unchained) joins the action as a milquetoast electrician named Max, as does Dane DeHaan (Kill Your Darlings) as Peter's friend Harry. Paul Giamatti (most recently in Saving Mr. Banks) has a funny cameo as an angry Russian truck driver, and Marvel Comics' Stan Lee shows his face early on, at Peter and Gwen's graduation.
The entire soundtrack, by Hans Zimmer, can be streamed from youtube. Critics have averaged 53% to audiences' 71 on Rotten Tomatoes, but this is the fourth highest-grossing movie on the charts today in its fourth week of release (we saw it two weeks ago). It has its own following, many of whom know to watch for a Stan Lee cameo and wait for a bonus during or at the end of the credits (this one is odd--it's a trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past, now playing, apparently a contractual obligation between studios).
If you're a fan of the web-slinger, you'll like this. If not, there are plenty of other choices around.
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