Better than the first one, but still not great

Rating: 7/10 (8 July 2004)

I didn't find myself completely enthralled by this movie. Some people said it had a great love story in it -- I didn't find the love story all that convincing. In fact, I think the love story sort of slowed this movie down too much, possibly why I wasn't enthralled with the movie. The special effects were okay, but you could definitely tell when you were looking at CGI special effects -- it just had that unnatural CGI look and movement to it. The scenes of New York looked like it was either on a sound stage or in a CGI generator, nothing looked natural.
I found little personal touchs interesting about this movie though. The fact that he started losing his superpowers due to emotional stress, for example. I found it interesting that he loses his mask a few times and people discover his identity; they tried hard not to reveal his identity in the first movie, in this movie they seemed to be revealing his identity to almost everyone!
I liked Dr. Octopus. I did find the background to his story a little unbelievable. He invents his artificially intelligent bionic arms that interface to his spinal cord. But he invented them simply as tools for his main project which was nuclear fusion research. I'd say that the invention of these arms were enough by themselves.
Basically little things pleased me about this movie. But sometimes big things didn't.