God awful movie; its high rating signifies the low standards of moviegoers

Rating: 1/10 (17 August 2005)

This movie was the most awful schlock-fest I've seen in at least the past six months. I thought the first movie was okay, not great, but certainly not awful; I was entertained by it. While watching the sequel I was continually incredulous that anyone could consider this movie to be anything other than a smörgåsbord of crap.
Sure, people will tell me: "It's just a movie. Suspend your disbelief." And while I'm more than happy to suspend my disbelief that there's a kid with superhuman spider powers swinging around New York and fighting crime, I'm not willing to concoct an elevated subway train running through what looks to be midtown Manhattan, said to be bound for Bay Ridge (which is in Brooklyn) but somehow the end of its line faces some body of water (the east river, perhaps?) and there is no platform or station in sight.
That was merely part of my gripe with the movie. What about the asinine bank robbery scene where Doc Ock is stealing gold coins of some sort? He makes off with two bags and somehow has enough to buy whatever absurd supplies he needs to rebuild his machine. From where did he order the supplies? "Wholesale_sci-fi_nuclear_machinery.com?" Did they deliver it to his run down layer on some dilapidated pier in ... where, Queens? Wouldn't that set off some alarms somewhere? There's only so much disbelief that can be suspended.
There has to be some semblance of believability for a movie to work and while superheroes are obviously a fiction, having fleets of cop cars racing down the streets of NY (in 2005? This isn't Dinkin's-era NY), being flipped--and shot at by white nu-metal looking hoods cruising in convertible 50s-era cars--is *bleeping* ridiculous. It's not entertaining, it's insulting and moronic.
But hey, the general public seems to be comprised of morons who eat stuff up so long as it makes a lot of noise and has a lot of movement and color and, of course, explosions and property damage. This film dragged on forever with absurd, feckless bits of exposition (the cake scene with the Russian landlord's daughter? Wtf?? What was the point?). "Spider-man 2" might as well have been directed by Joel Schumacher; it was almost as bad, if not as bad as "Batman and Robin".
This movie was a disgrace. I could go on, but why bother ... the people have already spoken and I'm just one lone movie-goer who wishes films didn't have to suck.