Every comic book movie faces the same challenge when going up on the big screen, to stay faithful to the original comic or to appeal to the sensibilities of modern cinema, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro comes up firmly on the side of the comic books.
While the original Amazing Spider-Man faltered, not quite finding the right balance between its origins and the "realistic" stories current cinema seems to be enamored with, this film is much more successful in establishing tone.
TAS:ROE picks up roughly a year or so after the last film, with Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) fighting street thugs and Russian mobsters while graduating from his final year of high-school.
Luckily the film skips right to the graduation because watching Peter Parker doing his juggling act of school/personal life/superherodom yet again is probably more than the audience would have been able to take.
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