Good but boring too....

Rating: Null/10 (9 August 2004)

...strange comment, I admit but I felt both ways watching Spiderman 2.
Good things first: Tobey Maguire is a very positive character and he is definitely the ideal actor to play Peter Parker/Spiderman, his opponent very well played by Alfred Molina. And the action was first-class, especially the one around the train, but here starts the negative thing... ...why do we have to stand Parker's problems throughout the entire movie? Yes, OK it is important for the story and it is very daring too showing a superhero being such jerk in private life but nevertheless I found it utterly boring after a while. Especially the love-thing between Parker and his wannabe-don't touch me yes/no/maybe/perhaps girlfriend was in my opinion stretched to the extreme and made me yawn several times.
At least they finally got together and since this is now finally done with, we may return to a bit more action-laden Spiderman 3 with more villains and more twists and turns - the storybase here around evil Dr. Ock was a bit too easy to follow and foresee. James Franco might be the next villain, but to accomplish that he has to do a lot more than trying to look like James Dean in every shot. Especially since the Green Goblin was performed by an outstanding Willem Dafoe.