Nowhere near the original

Rating: 7/10 (24 August 2004)

Seeing Spiderman 2 I find almost dumbfounding that people are actually calling it better than the original. The first movie was a brilliant movie with a deliberate pace that crafted the plot wonderfully and really made you care about the characters. In the second everything is just sort of thrown together in order to make it more of a fast paced ultimate action movie. I suppose this is okay, but it sort of left me feeling like "blah" as far as the characters involved. Not to mention the fact that Peter Parker takes off his mask for like five hundred people to see and doesn't seem concerned even though masking his identity was supposedly his ultimate motivation so that his friends and family are never injured. All in all I'd say this movie was an overblown action flick that was a bit of a rip off Superman 2. (I.E. losing your powers to be with girl and then reclaiming them to save said girl) I rate it at about a six because of the excellent effects and some of the humor. Still I hope they don't continue down the ladder as they venture into the third film.