Spider-Bland 2

Rating: Null/10 (7 July 2004)

Being utterly disappointed with the first Spider-Man film, I thought for some bizarre reason that this one might be better. I think that I thought the villian (Dr. Octopus, in comic terms, Doc Ock in this film) would be a cool, but of course I was wrong. First off, Tobey Maguire is unbearably annoying with his nerdiness, but then he becomes a total bad-ass when he puts on his suit - that's really stupid. The CGI was over done and done poorly. Spider-Man was too concerned with ballet while flying through the air, and lost all of what made him an admirable super hero. What's worse is that there was an irritating over-doing of women screaming at EVERYTHING in the movie. This reminded me of those old horror movies where people just stare and scream - it didn't work then, and it sure as hell doesn't work now. I was bored with this whole movie because it moved so unbearably slow, and any action that took place wasn't too exciting compared to the bland scenes that came before it. There was several irrelevant scenes in the movie that further destroyed its potential. I think that Sam Raimi would make a better Peter Parker, but it doesn't really matter because this series is beyond repair. Don't see this.