Max Dillon lived his whole life without anybody merely acknowledging his existence. One time, the Manhattan hero Spider-Man bumps into him on the streets and tells him, “You’re my guy. You’re my ears and eyes on the street.” Being the “nobody” that Dillon was, he was thrilled to have been acknowledged by somebody, let alone the very famous Spider-Man.

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After his mother forgets his birthday, Max enters an Oscorp lab one night. He sees sparks falling from the ceiling. A large cable has come loose. He climbs high above the lab and attempts to fix it when he is suddenly electrocuted. He falls, dragging the cable with him, into a tank full of genetically altered electric eels. They sting him multiple times and the tank shatters. The mix of chemicals causes Max’s skin to turn blue and give him the power to control electricity.

It takes well over an hour for Foxx’s character to become Electro – an unfortunate mix of Smurf and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Mr Freeze – but that delay is not altogether a bad thing. As was the case with the first less-than-amazing film, the latest episode is good at origin stories, youthful romance and everyday misunderstandings. It’s rather less impressive when the story winds towards its concluding explosions. Director Marc Webb made his name with the light comedy (500) Days of Summer, and light comedy is clearly what he’s best at.

Moving through a Spidey universe that doesn’t yet include Mary-Jane Watson, Amazing 2 follows Peter Parker’s cute romance with boffin Gwen Stacy, his renewed friendship with rich-kid Harry Osborne, and his attempts to explain his parents’ disappearance. Meanwhile, Foxx’s shy drone is making bad decisions about late-night shifts.

Webb has certainly cast the film well. Andrew Garfield displays a less alienating nervousness than did Tobey Maguire (he’s edgy because he’s a kid, not because he’s a neurotic) and he has a good take on Spider-Man’s endless banter: the superhero is a little like a pushy waiter trying too hard to joke his way towards tips. Dane DeHaan is eerily fragile as more-than-usually patrician Osborne. Sally Field, once again, reclaims Aunt May from patronising little-old-lady stereotypes.