Product: Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Rating: 5.0
Sometimes, to do what's right, we have to give up the thing we want the most
SPIDER-MAN 2 isn't simply a continuation of part one. It makes the wall-crawler so real, that few people would be hard pressed to see themselves in his shoes. Peter Parker's is a mess of crime-fighting constantly getting the way of college classes, dates with M.J. (Kirsten Dunst), and work. Spidey can't even attend a Broadway musical without being sidetracked by his superhero duties. His ability to shoot webs and adhere to walls is suddenly becoming sporadic. And to top it off, Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina) has had his own lab related accident involving four biomechanical tentacles welded to his spine, turning him into the arch villian Doc Ock. Peter now facelss the greatest dilemma of his life: will he continue using his powers in his battle against evil, or we he be "Spider-Man no more"?Like the first film, SPIDER-MAN 2 doesn't simply throw a boatload of fantastic special effects and superhero battles at you(although, like Spidey's first cinematic adventure, it has no shortage of either), but make Peter Parker every bit the character as Spider-Man. Throughout the film, indeed throughout his life, he is constantly asking himself why he fights evil, is it what he must do, or something he simply chooses to do. Can he allow himself to just quit? Will he somehow manage to balance a life heroics with his own life?SPIDER-MAN 2 isn't simply as good as th original, it is even better. And with the standards parts one and two have set, one can only imagine (and hope) that the upcoming SPIDER-MAN 3 can follow suit and improve upon predecessor.