too many nasties

Rating: 6/10 (29 August 2007)

So Spiderman 2 is a massive success. How to follow it up? One answer is to fill th screen with baddies. Having already done tortured troubled evil , Dr Octopus, with whom th audience have sympathies, the company tries to go in a different direction by filling the screen with Spidies enemies in the hope of blockbuster success. It looks a WWF tag match1 There are so many evils here that when the climax comes th audience hasn't been able to build a rapport with any of them so why should we care about them or what happens to them? This is a lesson in more is less, to use the cliché, which what they have clearly used here more than once. The redeeming one is a character mad out of sand. A feat of CGI to make his metamorphosis look convincing and the only character around long enough for rth e audience to feel anything towards. But he is not developed like Doc Octupus's screen time and so the main redeeming baddie has as much impression as sandcastle left out in the rain. The next in the franchise should return to solid scripting as its priority.