am I the only one...uhh...? lame?

Rating: 3/10 (8 July 2004)

If you look at what happens in this movie, you can basically see that the 2 in the title is pointless, this is just spiderman one, all over again. Spiderman 2 is boring. It has a few good laughs, mostly unintentional. It has a few scenes that are just pointless. It has a few good action sequences with a few references to Raimi's Evil Dead awesomeness. Now that being said, I must pay my respect to Sam Raimi-a talented and amazing action sequence director, for sure. The rest of the movie however, was boring and predictable. It was predictable because the exact same things happened in the first film. Switch out how the bad guys move around, swap out high school angst with your basic quarter life crisis, throw in a bunch of Mary-Jane (excuse me, totally rad M.J.) in trouble scenes, Aunt Mae in trouble scenes, another boring and so far from reality science lecture by some slightly flawed pre-bad guy bad guy, throw in another spidey saves a mass transit train, and then fill the rest with the exact same relationship dialogue from the first film. To prevent our country from going nuts and killing each other in the theater-give em the Ross and Rachel friends ending...whew, that made it all worth listening to ALL OVER AGAIN. I am completely surprised by the audience and critical response to this movie, it really doesn't deserve the way the country is spitting its web juice all over it. I was hoping this would be an awesome coming of age story, a story about self confidence, how finding that is the cornerstone of becoming a man. It wasn't that. If you think it was, go back and see at what point Peter remembers what his capabilities are...not when he decides that he's back, after a long slow motion sequence of him running across a roof top...no not then, when it wouldve couldve shouldve been about self confidence. Nah, he gets his abilities back when hes filled with rage over doc ock taking MaryJane away. Great. Like we need more kids out there thinking that rage is what it takes to realize your "power" within.