With great power comes great storytelling.A truly amazing movie

Rating: Null/10 (10 July 2004)

SPIDER-MAN 2 C-127min ****(2004)D:Sam Raimi.Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Donna Murphy, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons, Daniel Gillies, Dylan Baker, Bill Nunn, Vanessa Ferilto, Asaif Mandivi, Willem Dafoe, Cliff Robertson, Ted Raimi. Smashing sequel to SPIDERMAN is even better and "WAY" superior than it's predecessor. Our web-slinging hero is facing ordinary problems: Losing his job as a pizza-delivery boy, almost losing his job as photographer of The Daily Bugule run by cigar-chomping editor J. Jonah Jameson, and he can't pay the rent for his apartment, and his Aunt May is almost losing her home, conflicting himself in an identity crisis and losing his superpowers, Peter Parker throws his costume away and becomes an ordidnary guy again, until a new villian in town, Dr. Otto "Doc Ock" Octavuis is in town to threaten the city and Parker must regain his powers back and to reveal the rest would be unthinkable. From a superb opening titles sequence recaping the events of the first film (with illustrations by comic book artist Alex Ross) to the ending of the film, here is a film that's more human with very oustanding leading
characters, and convincing performances by Maguire, Dunst, Franco, Harris, Molina, and the rest of the cast, including Simmons as Jameson. This time, the visual effects have more plausibility and weight, but
the credit must go to Sam Raimi's effortless, flawless direction and 73- year old Alvin Sargeant's superb, multi-dimensional screenplay. This is brilliant storytelling. One of the best superhero flicks ever made since SUPERMAN, SUPERMAN II, BATMAN, and the first SPIDERMAN. This film ranks among these films. Also one of the year's best films. An authentic superhero masterpiece and not to be missed.