Typically Lacklustre Sequel

Rating: Null/10 (5 July 2004)

Damn, I had high hopes for this one. After X2 did so well last year - I was sure Spiderman would follow suit. They managed to keep the director and the cast - what could go wrong? In two words.... the dialogue. It could be compared to Brotehr Bear on its style. It a typically overly-sentimental, moralistic style of dialogue, that achieves only, the comlpete loss of beleivability in the movie. Especially bad are any scenes involving Aunt May. However, even the scene with Peter in the kitchen of (pre-accident) Doc Ock, with the aformentioned Doc's wife - are fairly trite. I understand they were trying to get across that they really loved each other - but did the Doc have to launch into a pseudo-philisophical spiel about love. Ditto the doctor (MD) later in the movie examining Peter (if you've seen it you know what i'm talking about). On the up side - some of the action scenes were very good - overall 5/10