One of my favourites

Rating: 10/10 (20 May 2005)

Granted, I'm only sixteen, and haven't seen many movies before about 1975. But I've read many, many Spiderman comics, and this film captures the essence almost completely.
Spider-Man 2 surpasses the first in every way. Better story, much better villain, although there is nothing wrong with Willem Dafoe. He did the best with the character he was given. But Molina conveys an actual sense of emotion to the audience. It actually made me care about him. Plus, the fight scenes were 10 times better.
Peter and MJ's strained relationship actually makes you care about what happens to them. You actually hope it turns out great for them in the end. Maguire and Dunst are the perfect cast.
Franco is a superb Harry, and is just how I'd imagine him to be. Ruthless, but caring and friendly. Harris is as loving and caring as Aunt May would be expected to be.
I have one problem though, and that is that Spidey is not as witty as he should be. He has barely any snappy one-liners that we've come to expect from the wall crawler.
But apart from that, this is a cinematic masterpiece, mixing comedy, drama, action and romance.
Roll on Spider-Man 3.