Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Dane Dehaan, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field

Certificate: 12a

It seems that we’ve been dealt a fairly large hand of superhero sequels in the past six months. Sure, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier have gone on to be successful sequels in the own universe but can The Amazing Spider-Man 2 win back the naysayers who felt a bit miffed by the first film?

I for one left the cinema a little underwhelmed after I saw the first Amazing Spider-Man.  I remember thinking to myself “meh, it wasn’t boring but it didn’t exactly live up to the title of ‘Amazing’”.

The problem with the first Amazing Spider-Man is that ultimately we paid to see the same movie twice. Marc Webb’s origin story just felt like a perpetual déjà vu experience. Not enough time had…