Gets your spider senses tingling!

Rating: Null/10 (25 July 2004)

If you've been climbing the walls waiting for the new Spiderman film, then your wait has been worth it. Without doubt the finest superhero film to ever be put on screen, Spiderman 2 encapsulates every frame from the best comic book/graphic novel you've read and more! Tobey Maguire returns as the love torn Peter Parker, who is caught between his love for Mary Jane Watson and his role as the crime stopping superhero. Parker knows he can never reveal his identity to Mary Jane as his enemies will go after her. And so he has to co-exist in two worlds, in one a masked avenger for good, the other a put upon photographer whose world is one of broken promises and missed opportunities. And so Parker decides to leave the mask and tights for good and try a life without crime solving. But he doesn't reckon on Doctor Octopus, a genius scientist, who after a freak accident is transformed into a super-villain with four metal tentacles coming out of his body. And so the fight is on, as Peter battles the evil of Doctor Octopus while wrestling with his feelings for the girl he loves. Directed by Sam Raimi, Spiderman 2 manages to outdo its predecessor on every level. Not one scene is wasted, not one character feels misplaced. Maguire as Parker/Spiderman gives the role a deeper quality than its creator Stan Lee must have envisioned when he penned the character. Kirsten Dunst, as Mary Jane Watson displays a chemistry with Maguire that makes her scenes full of passion, while Alfred Molino as Doctor Octopus brings the right touch of evil mixed with good that makes such characters so tragic. And JK Simmons as J Jonah Jameson is magnificent as the Spiderman hating newspaper editor whose opinion of the wall crawler changes with every newspaper headline. If you only watch one super hero film in your life, watch this one. A film that brings out the hero in all of us