Over-hyped

Rating: 7/10 (30 June 2004)

I went into the theater with great expectations and left disappointed and angry.
Yes, angry.
The CGI effects in this film are wonderful, and the webslinging scenes are simply amazing, but the script is roadkill.
There are so many cheesy moments in this movie that you'll be hard-pressed to take it seriously. Most of them stem from the Peter Parker-Mary Jane love affair, which is composed of a lovey-dovey infatuation that had me gagging throughout the entire two hours.
Minor spoilers ahead:
Doc Octopus is a good villain in the beginning, but he has an identity crisis and can't seem to decide whether he wants to be evil or not. What is this? He is the VILLAIN! He's supposed to be sick and twisted, yet the viewer is made to sympathize with him too much; the result is that the viewer isn't emotionally invested in Spiderman's cause whenever he battles Doc Ock.
The ending is very anti-climactic. Don't expect anything special.
Spoiler's over.
The original Spiderman is better than Spidey2. As it stands, Spiderman2 is a rehash of Spiderman1, except it's love story is cheesier, it's villain is worse, and it focuses too much on psycho-analyzing Peter Parker instead of on who everyone is paying to see- SPIDERMAN.