I felt like they tried so hard to make everything a step up from the original that it ended up just being too much. the art got even more artsy, and while some places it looked really cool, other places it was just very distracting and genuinely looked like mistakes. (I literally went and asked the staff if they were showing us a 3D version by mistake because of just how blurry things were at times.)

Story-wise, I felt like it lost a lot of the charm and succinctness. It again felt like I had to one up everything, but in doing so it lost a lot of what made the first movie special. I really didn't like or get to know any of the new characters. There were quite a few funny moments, but too little banter for a movie with this many Spider-Mans.

Probably the biggest complaint is the complete lack of an ending or even a warning ahead of time that this was just a part one. that probably explains why it felt like the latter two-thirds of the movie dragged so much. there were a lot of action scenes mixed in, but it just felt like standard web slinging chases, nothing really interesting happening most of the time.