One of the best sequels ever made

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2005)

If we expect action, thrills, jumps on our seats and being in the edge of it, let's go to watch this movie. If we want heart, soul, moving moments and comedy...let's go and watch this movie too. Sam Raimi's first part of Spiderman shows the executive producers that he can make a great blockbuster and also gain a lot for strength against the academy producers. So they gave him total freedom with this sequel, and thank god they did. Sam Raimi returns to his beginnings, those beginnings into that creepy cabin, and reaches his high point during that scary surgery operation to Doc Ock (a terrific Alfred Molina) when his independent tentacles kill (without blood, yeah, but Jesus, I still shaking in fear) the whole operation team (do not lose that out-standing chainsaw moment). But this movie is not only special effects and ultra-realistic fights between a giant octopus and a spider. This movie is a heart opener experience. Peter Parker becomes that tortured hero who can't balance between his personal life and impossible love for Mary Jane, and the bless/curse of his super-hero powers. He is like everyone of us. Okay, we don't have special powers, but we have jobs, hobbies, things that take too much of our times to expend with the family. Spiderman is just like that. And with this fantastic sequel, he gets the story he deserves. An Odyssey where friends became enemies, where his identity is revealed to protect others, where the heart is challenged every time with chills and thrills and you feel the life that makes the rhythm never stop, even when the movie turns slow with only one or two moments (I don't understand why Cliff Robertson appears again, but he is the trigger for one of the most dramatic moments of the film). Conclusion: Unmissable movie, this is worth to be in the podium of best sequels ever made, between The godfather part II, and Aliens.