Spider-Man 2 (DVD)

...his skill and reputation as Spider-Man have improved, his personal life still leaves much to be desired. Still estranged from the love of his life, Peter will not allow himself to get close to MJ for fear of putting her in danger. His best friend Harry hates Peter’s alter ego Spider-Man for killing his father in cold blood. Not only does Harry not know that his father was the Green Goblin, but he’s also oblivious to the fact his best friend and arch ...
...Octavius (Alfred Molina) and without Spider-Man New York is defenceless… There’s something hugely comforting about all Marvel Superheroes, it’s the overwhelming evidence they provide that having super powers sucks. It alienates you from the world at large, puts those you love in danger and leaves you with a choice between a life of self sacrifice and near constant misery or one of maniacal super villainy (I know which one I’d go for). ‘Spider-Man ...

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Two years or so after we last saw him, our hero Spiderman is still having a tough time. Apart from balancing the time pressures of his high school education against those of a part-time job to pay his rent, he also has his aged aunt to worry about and he has to keep his feelings to himself over the girl he loves. Whilst Mary-Jane Watson means more to him than anything else, he must continually push her away for fear that one of his many enemies will ...
...say, he can’t tell Mary-Jane the real reason he pushes away, so he must watch sadly from the sidelines as he struggles to understand him. The final straw comes when, unable to meet an appointment to see Mary-Jane perform in her new play, he turns up at the end only to see her meet up with her dashing new boyfriend, John Jameson. For Peter, it’s all too much and given that his amazing powers seem to be fading anyway, he finally throws ...

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...scenes is when he thinks Spider-Man has gone for good and he admits that maybe he misjudged the wall-crawler, before conforming to type again when it becomes clear that Spidey is back with a vengeance. “Evil Dead” stalwart Bruce Campbell turns up in a cameo as an obstreperous doorman and Sam’s little brother Ted turns up again as one of Jonah J Jameson hapless lackeys. I have already mentioned one aspect of the special effects, but in such a CGI-heavy ...
...for me were the old Spider-man TV series theme tune, sung lounge style by crooner of the month James Bublé and Burt Bacharach’s “Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head” during a montage of Peter enjoying normal life. The score is far better, with Danny Elfman doing the honours and resisting the temptation to cover everything in twinkly piano music. In fact the score fits the film so well, that you sometimes forget it’s there. The costumes are pitch perfect, ...

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Peter Parker has survived both his internal, and explosive external battles with the mad Green Goblin. However, all True Believers know that such victories are dubious wins at best and Peter's life is never an easy ride. This second web-spinning tale opens with a string of defeats and personal disasters that, while amusing to the viewers, leaves us wondering how a working class superhero keeps his chin above water. The Story: Everywhere Peter turns, ...
...disappoints them, he needs to get his act together, he's too lazy or just plain too broke to meet his commitments. The line, "If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?" springs to mind. Spidey could easily pick up some extra cash doing commercials spots for Milliways, which would really come in handy. Instead, Peter tries desperately to juggle his ...

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...you include Dr Octopus). Spider-Man began as a try-out character in issue 15 of Amazing Fantasy. There never was an issue 16. But the character had generated enough interest to warrant his own series and, within a year, The Amazing Spider-Man #1 hit the news-stands. From the outset writer Stan Lee wanted to write a superhero comic with a different perspective. Bruce Wayne is a gazillionaire, Clark Kent has a great job (he’d probably get Super-unemployment ...
...of discovering you have superpowers, Spider-Man 2 brings our hero right back down to earth. The opening titles recap the events of the first movie using fan-favourite Alex Ross’s hyper-realistic artwork. We are reminded how Peter Parker became Spider-Man and how he was indirectly responsible for the death of his Uncle Ben. The still images show us Spider-Man standing over the lifeless body of Norman Osborn as Osborn’s son, Peter Parker’s best friend, ...

danielse 06.07.2004 (16.03.2005) · Read full review
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Spider-Man 2 Review The best superhero film yet? You’re going to hear a lot of critics telling you that Spider-Man 2 is so much better than Spider-Man. This I think is a little unfair as it, at least in part, diminishes the original. And let’s not forget that was a very good film indeed. It was especially notable when so many other films that year were below par. The original X-Men film for instance, (which was of course thankfully followed up ...
...back to his best for Spider-Man 2. The scene where Spiderman and Dr Octopus fight on the side of the building is an excellent showcase for Elfman’s deft score. Fighting to a backdrop of orchestral music, for a few brief moments the music fades and all the extraneous sounds are stripped away to leave only the sound of the blows that they are landing on each other and sound of the pieces of brickwork that are being torn from the building and crashing ...

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...called 'The Grudge'. The first Spider-man movie was very succesful, grossing over $400 Million Dollars in the U.S alone and totalling a massive $822 Million worldwide. The sequel looks set to do the same as it's already made over $300 Million in the U.S so far and as the budget for the second film was set at $200 Million it's already made profit. And those sort of figures is why it's already been green-lit for a third film. The story starts off ...
...he does want to be spider-man or not or if he does actually have a choice. Peter is also very short on cash so has to keep trying to avoid the landlord because his rent is due. The only way he can make money is by offering the Daily Bugle pictures of Spider-man, but he really doesn't want to do that because of the lies that they write about him. His Aunt is also struggeling to pay the mortgage on her house which adds more complications to his already ...

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Spider man 2 picks up where the first film left off and we begin to follow the story of Peter Parker as he tries to balance university, work as well as being a neighbourhood superhero. IN Spiderman 2 Peter struggles to adjust to having to work and study whilst his friends seemingly have acquired perfect lives. Following the death of his father Harry has assumed responsibility for the running of his father's company and is rich, powerful and seemingly ...
...as an actress and her face is all over the city of New York on billboards as well as starring in a successful Broadway play (the Importance of Being Earnest in case you were wondering). Meanwhile Peter is struggling with his own demon's feeling guilt over the death of his Uncle as well as the fact that he is letting everyone else down. Struggling at university he is asked to write a paper about the brilliant Doctor Otto Octavius about a new type ...

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So, to recap: Peter Parker, teemager and all round good geek obtained super arachnid powers after being bitten by a radio-active spider. After the loss of his uncle to a gunman he unwittingly let escape, Parker resolves to fight crime, going after petty crooks and the Green Goblin. Ultimately besting him by the close of part one he discovers that the Green Goblin is in fact the father of his best buddy, who subsequently believing Spiderman to have ...
...first film was a spry, well-fashioned adventure that was full of action, drama and Spiderman were set up, the film nonetheless struck a chord with audiences worldwide. Now with all the collected magnitude built up in part one and the enormity expected from a sequel we have the new adventure as Spidey squares off against tentacled adversary Dock Ock. Well rest assured - though there's the odd off moment here and there this superhero sequel matches ...

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...the release of the mega-blockbuster Spider-Man 2 with almost unbridled excitement. The original Spider-Man, adapted from the Marvel comics of the same name, was an instant success, banking almost $800 million world-wide and spanning a global chain of memorabilia including Happy Meals, toys, t-shirts and a new whirlwind of comics, as well as a rumoured seven planned sequels. An annoyingly scheduled 3-week holiday starting on the very weekend Spidey ...
...was almost wholly justified. Spider-Man 2 picks up two years after the first film wrapped, leaving Norman Osborn, aka the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) dead, his son Harry (the gorgeous, brooding, James Dean-esque James Franco) blaming Spider-Man for his death and eager for revenge, Mary-Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) admitting her true feelings for Peter Parker only to be turned down because Parker (Tobey Maguire) knows that he cannot continue being ...

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...follow-up to the hugely successful Spider-man appeared, I got very excited indeed. I loved everything about the first film: the action, the acting, the story, and the way it balanced superhero fantasy with realistic emotion. So, I couldn't wait to see how Spider-man 2 would compare. Rumours say that Spider-man 2 cost $200 million, and if so, this would make it the most expensive film ever made. However, it more than made up this amount, grossing ...
...Osborn's want for revenge after Spider-man killed his father in the first film. You have to say, when you first see it, every dollar of the budget shows on the screen. It is a film packed with colour, stunning action and extremely realistic special effects. And the action is not at all what you might expect from your average superhero film; there are fight scenes on the side of a moving train, or dangling from a clock tower. The script is perfectly ...

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...wrong, its up to the Spider-Man to save the city from a menace whose intent on causing mayhem. Yes, it’s the sequel to Spider-Man and the franchise, which I’m happy to announce, is still going strong. Maguire seems to have changed in his facial expressions and I couldn’t help but notice he had changed quite a bit since the prequel. Then again, 2 years has passed. Yes, he’s not always on top form as Spider Man, yet he’s ...
...time for these characters. Even Spider-Man himself isn’t used to great detail in the film. The action sequences are well done and the best scene is when Doc-Ock and Spiderman have a showdown onboard a train where it shows that a true hero cannot always perform the duty they’d like to and can sometimes be temporarily defeated. Spiderman is henceforth rescued by the people on the train and it shows a coming together of people at the expense ...

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I have recently updated my review on the original SPIDERMAN movie so if you want to your more than welcome to check that out before you read this!? ~~ A member on the site has also mentioned that I may be giving a little too much of the plot away in this review so be warned although I am going to go through the review now and change anything I feel needs to be changed ~~ SPIDERMAN 2 I went to see this movie at the cinema over the weekend and although ...
...a rather exceptional movie. I really enjoyed the movie SPIDERMAN so was looking forward to the follow up however the sPiDeRmAn SuCcEsS didn't shine so much throughout this sequel which was a little disapointing. Do not get me wrong - I enjoyed the film but as like most sequels it wasn't as good as what everyone makes it out to be. My partner really didn't enjoy it at all and he adored the first Spiderman movie! (However - I think this was due to ...

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There are those who may be tempted to write off the second installment of the Spiderman movies given the lackluster washout that the first one turned out to be, but that would be a huge mistake. Director Sam Raimi has somehow managed to get past the disappointments of the first film and come out with a sequel that is not only better than the first, it eclipses it completely. His outstanding direction is coupled with solid, mature writing from the ...
...to produce an excellent film. The second film opens with Peter as a struggling student at Columbia University, torn between academics, earning money, and of course, saving people. No surprise, he's not suceeding. This seemingly unlucky trend seems to haunt him throughout the movie - the poor guy just can't get a break. He's stressed out, he's confused, and perhaps worst of all, he starts to doubt whether or not he really wants to be Spiderman or ...

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Its not easy being a superhero, and if you've ever tried to squirt silly string from your wrists while swinging across the Manhattan skyline in spandex then you'd know that. Neither is it easy to be a tortured scientist/villian with four bionic arms attached to your back. For a start you can never quite get comfy in bed. In Spiderman 2, we meet both these suffering servants. Well, we don't so much meet them as get left standing gawping at the roadside ...
...starts off where Spiderman left off, unsurprisingly. Peter Parker is still the troubled, thoughtful, creative type who takes photos for the Daily Bugle and adores his Auntie May and Mary Jane. Also unsurprisingly, Peter is still streaking across the skyline as Spiderman in his free time, making a mighty mess of New York with all that spider goop spraying out of almost every orifice. The Green Goblin's (Spiderman's arch-nemesis in the first movie) ...

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