User blog comment:Hellhamer/First Look at Amazing Spider-Man 2's Electro/@comment-5037384-20130422190829/@comment-1713281-20130423012839

I don't have to nit pick out reasons why I didn't like #3. As a whole, I think they dropped the ball. All because of Overcrowding.

Yes, they had three villains; no, none of them got good screen time, none of them hit potential, and f%#$ing Topher Grace ditching the Venom symbiote to talk solely to get more screen time was aggravating. Those (fairly valid) points have been made on the internet thousands of times. But even outside the villains, there were just a ton of story elements thrown together that really were stunted in their development.

The Peter-MJ-Gwen love triangle, the Peter/Eddie rivalry, the whole mess with tying in Sandman with Peter's origins and Uncle Ben's death, Harry and his amnesic mood-swings, Harry and Peter's dealing with Norman's death. I commend them for trying to go all-out, but none of it worked. The plot lines seemed like they got squashed into the movie as though they were last minute thoughts written into the margins of the script. Had they split it off into two films, the material could have been flesh out and improved.