Web slinging fun (contains spoilers)

Rating: 7/10 (12 July 2004)

When a director of such films as the Evil Dead series wants to go into making a superhero movie you'd normally think it'd be a lesser known hero such as Darkman, which yes of course Sam Raimi did also direct. Then he has also now directed two of my favorite superhero movies to date. Both of course being Spider-man, now the first had it's good and bad points and in all honesty the end did disappoint a little but it was still entertaining enough to watch over and over. The second isn't much different (although I would probably choose to avoid the drive in and becoming a blood bank for the friendly neighborhood mosquitoes). Again a lot of the cast from the first movie is here, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst even Bruce Campbell and Willem Defoe makes an appearance at the end to set up the third installment. One of the things that I liked straight away however was the recap from the first in the opening credits, just shots from it and not a TV show 'and here's what happened last time' moment.
And so to start, Spiderman (Tobey Maguire) is a hero who's only real enemy other than criminals has to be the Daily Bugel but not even that can keep him down that is until he finally realises that what he's doing is hurting Peter Parker's life. He's losing the girl that he loves, he's always late from his job AND his school and he's falling behind on his rent too. And so what does he do? Gives up the superhero life, discards the old red and blue suit and continues his life as Peter. But when the new bad guy in town Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina), or Dr. Octapus as J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) so affectionately calls him, kidnaps Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) then Spiderman has to come out of hiding and take on yet another enemy. Filled with great computer generated graphics and some good fighting scenes Spider-man in my opinion improves where Sam Raimi originally left off and Harry Osborne's (James Franco) descent into madness and the second Green Goblin was also quite well executed whether or not this series will improve once more with a third installment it's not so simple to see however Spiderman 2 certainly does the Marvel comics and Sam Lee credit.