Spectacularly Awesome

Rating: 9/10 (8 September 2019)

Spider-Man 2 is, without a doubt, my favorite Spider-Man film. It is fast paced, has a great villan, solid acting, and a really good story.
This time around, Peter Parker is losing his powers as Spider-Man because of the fact that he can't seem to make time for Mary Jane. Mary Jane is getting married to J. Jonah Jameson's son, John (played by Daniel Gillies), and Peter is essentially "Spider-Man.....no more."
Meanwhile, a guy named Otto Octavius (played by Alfred Molina) is doing an experiment on fusion power, and uses 4 mechanical arms to do it, but it goes haywire and destroys the inhibitor chip on the mechanical arms, which means the arms now control him. Otto, now known as Dr. Octopus/Doc Ock, becomes villainous and wants to remake his project and make it bigger and better. It is now up to Peter Parker to get his powers back and stop Doc Ock from destroying New York with his fusion power machine.
Also, Harry, this time around, wants to find out who Spider-Man is because he strongly believes he killed his father, Norman (Green Goblin). So he does whatever he can to find Spider-Man and know his true identity.
What is weird is there was nothing wrong with the first film, and I like this film more, but the only problem I had with this film was Mary Jane. It wasn't Kirsten Dunst's fault, but the script she had to work with made her just seem way too harsh towards Peter, and I didn't like that. In other words, she was good in the first film, but here she was unlikable for like 80% of the film.
Other than that, this film rocks. Tobey Maguire proves yet again he can make a great Spider-Man, Alfred Molina did a wonderful job as Doc Ock, and James Franco did a pretty good job as Harry Osborn again.
The action was miles better and satisfying to the max. It was all edited really well and was pretty much the reason why many people love this movie a lot.
The story was more interesting this time around, and the pacing was great for 2 hours.
Overall, Spider-Man 2 is phenomenal and is one of the best movies of 2004.