Very good....but perhaps they wrote the main character wrong...

Rating: 7/10 (18 August 2010)

I enjoyed "Spider-Man 2" very much. It had lovely special effects and interesting characters. However, I also felt annoyed about one major aspect of the film. Tobey Maguire's version of Peter Parker was just too darn stupid and annoying. Throughout much of the film, Parker has horrible problems balancing his life as Spider-Man and Peter--and did a horrible job as both. In fact, his ineptitude really made me cringe. Can anyone be THAT klutzy, nerdy and dumb? It tried to make him endearingly inept--but I wanted my superhero to be less of a knucklehead and less pathetic. Peter, unfortunately, was often just pathetic. So, when the movie introduced a great villain, eye-popping stunts of Spider-Man appearing to really fly through the streets of New York and a very spunky and likable Aunt May, you still couldn't help feeling that Peter needed to stop whining and be a man! Too bad, as otherwise this was a likable film and an amiable follow-up to the first Spider-Man film.
Also, what's with that scene with the annoying woman on the street singing the Spider-Man song in the most god-awful rendition in movie history! Homer Simpson's "Spider-Pig" song would have been far more fitting than this tuneless moment.