Awesome

Rating: 10/10 (30 June 2004)

I saw Spider-Man 2 at a midnight showing and it was amazing.
First off the special effects are amazing, it is getting increasingly more difficult to spot the cgi characters. In other movies like 'Blade 2' The cgi Blade stuck out like a sore thumb, but Spider-Man 2 blended the actors and the cgi perfectly. Web-Slinging is still an amazing thing to see. The tentacles are amazing. The way that they interact with the world is outstanding. They almost steal the show from the actors.
The story is standard super hero tale, but it is done so well that it doesn't matter. *Plot Spoilers* Peter is having trouble balancing Spider-Man and his life. He loses his job, MJ gets engaged to some one else, His grades are down and Aunt May's house is being foreclosed. So Peter does what almost any one would do and quits. Meanwhile Dr. Octavius almost blows up NYC and ends up fusing 4 metal tentacles to his back. He goes insane and wants to prove that his experiment works, so he joins up with Harry Osborn, who still wants to kill Spider-Man for what happened in the first movie. Octavius threatens Parker because he takes Spider-Man's photos for the Daily Bugle and kidnaps MJ, forcing Parker to be Spider-Man again and save the day. *End spoilers*
All of the actors did an outstanding job. Maguire did a great job showing how Peter always regrets being Spider-Man. Dunst was good in her limited role. Franco over acted a bit as Harry, but this didn't get in the way of the story. Molina played a perfect Doc Ock. The way that he would interact with the tentacles is exactly as he should.
I'm a fan of the comics and what made the movie work so well was the supporting characters. The filmmakers have found the absolute perfect actors for Aunt May, Robbie Robertson and J. Jonah Jameson. Jameson was perfect, from his cheapness to his almost epiphany about Spider-Man. That one of the things that makes the comic so good is that you don't mind when Spider-Man is out of his costume, because of how interesting his life is. The movie was able to capture that perfectly. With other comic book movies like 'The Hulk' I was just waiting for Banner to become the hulk, but in Spider-Man 2 I didn't care if Parker was in costume or not, because the normal life part was done so well. I recommend it to everyone, in fact I am probably going to see it again today.