It gets better

Rating: 8/10 (29 June 2004)

OK. So you've got to followup on one of the biggest blockbusters of the last few years. Your working with one of the most highly regarded Super Heros in comics. Can you possibly do it better?
Like they say, it will make you laugh and it will make you cry. I guess you could say it follows the nature of the genre. It also carefully delivers the angst of Peter Parker. In another era we would speak of Zeitgeist. Today it's probably enough to say that it delivers it's emotional punches very well.
There are a few moments that one might quibble about, were one in the mood, but I think that would essentially be sour grapes. There's one punch I knew was coming and I still jumped in my seat.
I guess I can't wait for the next one, currently in production.
Small spoiler follows *** The only time I had to laugh 'outside' the movie was the moment Peter enters the theater and the name over the door is Lyric. I'll say no more. End spoiler ***