almost perfect

Rating: 10/10 (10 July 2004)

Spiderman 2 was in almost every way better than the original (which was stupendous). It would take me a very long time, and more than my 1,000 word allotment to list every thing I liked about the movie, so I'll list what I didn't like with the understanding that means I liked everything else.
There were a few spots where spiderman looked CG, the coloring/shadows on the costume were slightly off, and when Spidey's preparing to web sling shot himself out the window his movements are a little jerky (I think it was done intensionally to show the force being put into the web sling but I didn't like the result even with that being said).
Mary Jane's (Kirsten Dunst's) hair wasn't dyed red enough.
I wasn't quite sure of the reason behind Peter Parker temporarily loosing his powers, the "explanation" of it being psychological was speculated by a doctor who didn't know Peter was Spiderman and thought the conversation was about a dream Peter had of being Spiderman and not being able to stick to the wall. This hypothetical explanation was not pleasing to me since Peter has temporarily lost his powers a number of times for a number of reasons in comic books and cartoon shows, I was left wondering if it wasn't just in his head and was something more serious.
So like I was saying, It was practically perfect; the fight scenes were great, the acting was great, the story was great, the scenery was great, and it had a good sound track and ... and ... and ... and... (you get the idea).