Product: Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Rating: 3.0
Not that great - overhyped
I just saw this film and think the first one was a better film as it flowed much smoother. This one was stilted, choppy and irritating at parts.How many times was seeing peter late to pick up cocktail food and have someone grab it first be funny?How many times is he in an emotional scene and what passes for good direction, acting and dialogue, he just starts to mumble with a stiff look from the liv tyler school of blank expressions?And how many scenes of pontificating from the actors - totally innappropriate in some places, about sacrifice do we need?And for those people who were all excited about the clever plot, its really not that original, but the filmmakers know that most ppl who see these movies are too young to remember things like SUPERMAN II - from which they lifted many ideas from apparently. (see superhero give up powers, live life smiling for a short time, to enjoy dating/marrying a woman.)Any film with al molina has to be elevated several notches, as he is one of the most talented actors around, but i found the first half dull and cloying, repeating scenes over and over. The one real other weakness was the score, as it offered nothing new or original either. Do i hear superman, rocky, gladiator? For an epic film as part of a trilogy with such high expectations, dan elfman did not do his best.