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

Over-stuffed with plot and consequently struggles to invest the audience in any of it, since there's so much to get through and so many future films and spinoffs to set up.

'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' will certainly make a bazillion dollars, but after you sit through it - all 142 minutes of it - it's very hard to work up a compelling reason that it needed to exist, aside from the aforementioned bazillion dollars.

Webb and his team of visual effects gurus have upped the ante by a significant margin, making Spider-Man's in-air acrobatics simply stunning when not entirely nerdtastically jaw-dropping.