Good, but not as good as the first

Rating: 7/10 (11 July 2004)

Mild spoilers in this....
Well, I was kind of disappointed. Don't get me wrong, its still a good film, but I just left feeling a little disappointed. I personally didn't think Doc Oc was as good as green goblin in terms of evil guys, and way less attention was really placed on him and his role. I still don't even get why he had to have the tentacles in the first place - was it just me or did they kind of skip over that bit too quickly? And so what if he had the power of the sun - what was he going to do with it? They didn't really address that very well.
I also thought they emphasised too much on the whole spiderman/peter parker/mj relationship and there were too many slow scenes. Oh, and don't you think that out of all those people who saw him unmasked on that 'outdoor nyc subway', that one of them would have ratted him out to the press?
I knew it was going to be hard to match up the the first one, especially seeing how Spiderman was 'born'. Still, I did find myself liking this film, especially the way spidey was down on his luck and turned his back on spiderman for a while. It was was also nice to see them kiss at the end and work it out, even if it was a little corny.
Overall, 7/10. Kind of worried about the 3rd one thats obviously coming... maybe it should have just stopped at number 2... just look at what happened to the batman movies!