Wow... Where do I start?

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 2005)

Well... Spider-Man 2... I'll start off by saying that this is a very fun film, but it is taken WAY too seriously... WAAAAY too seriously. Obviously this movie is on the top 250 here on IMDb, but it doesn't deserve to be. This movie is full of so many inconsistencies, and impossible action sequences, it's not even funny... For example, the runaway train sequence... while very fun and action packed scene, is absolutely impossible, even for Spider-Man. Sorry, you won't fool me into believing that he can hold back, or even try to hold back a speeding train with his arms, and I had my head buried in my hands when he tried to stop it with his feet, and was ripping up rail-road ties, and he simply jumps up and acts like he did nothing more than stub his toe. Spider-Man 2 is full of this... like, I found it interesting how Doc Oc's mechanical arms grew about 15 feet from when he first put them on to when he is in the hospital... I also liked how Spider-Man is able to hold up a 2 ton brick wall, not only hold it up, but catch it in midair... every action sequence was seriously over done to the limit... and Peter Parker must have been practicing his webbing tactics between part 1 and 2, because this movie doesn't hold back on that... how about when he gets his suit back, and leaves a note? (if you've seen the movie, you will know what I mean)... This movie is ridiculously unrealistic.
Now, onto the good, this is a very good romantic comedy, though I will say that for some reason, Peter Parker is about 10 times the loser he was in the first one. But, everything is acted very well, and the movie kept me interested. I do think that Sam Raimi is given much too much credit for these movies, seriously, he doesn't give us anything that couldn't be done better, and I honestly think that his directing in this movie was very weak, I won't explain them cause, I really can't, something in the movie just felt missing to me... But it doesn't change the fact that this was a very good way to spend... however long it was... cause at the end, which was a pretty good one I might add, I really, really wanted to see another one. This movie is about as good as a comic book adaptation goes, with the exception of X-Men, in my honest opinion, but, it shouldn't be taken so seriously, because it is not a masterpiece, it is not one of the best movies of all time, but despite all it's wrongs, it's all-right. 6/10
P.S. I'm not a huge fan of Bruce Campbell, but his cameo was hella-funny!