Great sequel to the good first one

Rating: 9/10 (1 June 2006)

*only minor spoilers ahead* This was basically a very well made flick. The first one built much for this one, and now we could see Spider-man controlling his powers better. From the start, you can see that the camera drives, the action, just about everything is great to watch.
The spider-man humor is still there, as are Peter Parker's problems with school, life and girls. It all works well, though I can understand if someone doesn't like these aspects of the movie. But, it's pretty faithful to the comics and delivers some fun scenes, some relaxed scenes, and also pretty serious stuff, as Peter is still fighting with his conscience. It builds up the character nicely, and raises some real-life questions for everyone.
OK, that's it. What about the action? Perfect! Spidey flies like he's never flown before, and the camera drives, acrobatics and stunts are just huge. Almost every little action scene has something truly innovative. I love some of the scenes when spider-man uses his web in many different ways, and he does that a lot - and that provides us some very good looking action. There are tons of different aspects of the action that can be praised. The scenes are just nothing short of impressive.
The bad guy, starring Ralph Molina, does great. Dr. Octopus was always my favourite bad guy. As many things, he was not exactly like in the comics - and why should he be? It works for the movie very well.
My only complaint is, that I would have loved to see more action. I'm not saying that there was too little of it, I'm just saying it was so good that I can't get enough of it.
Also, the movie gets a little darker that the first one. And that's not bad.
Sam Raimi has done to Spider-man what Bryan Singer to the X-men.
Can't wait for the third one...if there is going to be things like Venom or the Sandman, it's going to be hard for Raimi to pull it off. Green Goblin and Doc Ock were at least scientifically explained, at least to a point. But as long as it's Raimi, we should not doubt much.