Better than the first, but still not as good as it could be

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2004)

Spidey 2 is similiar to Superman 2 in that the first movie dealt with the origin story that most people already know, where as the second one is all action. Introducing a new villian, while using the original villian as a subplot.
You could put together the first two of Superman and have a cohesive four hour movie. Ditto with Spidey.
It's good that they tried to make Parker's and MJ's relationship as complicated as they could, but it was pretty silly to have the movie end with a Graduate style exit from the alter.
This movie, along with the first, should have taken a darker and more serious approach to Spiderman. More like XMen and Daredevil. The movie is too geez whiz and corny a lot of times. They should have set the movie in the 50s or something, because their New York has no resemblance to modern day NYC.
The corniest moment of the first movie is when those New Yackers were up on the bridge throwing stuff at Goblin. For this movie, you have Spiderman (minus his mask) crowd surfing in a train car. A ton of witnesses see his real identity, and promise not to tell anyone. Yeah right! And then the "Hey Doc Oc, this is post 9/11 New York. You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us" type attitude was just plain silly.
There's way too many scenes of Spiderman without his mask. I guess they're trying to get their money's worth with what they payed Tobey.
Doc Oc is a better villian than Goblin due to the fact that he actually resembles the comic book Doc Oc. They didn't just throw him in a discount Halloween costume like with Goblin.