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ok, the last movie I reviewed was Spider-Man, made by Sam Raimi and I though, what the heck, I'll do a review of all four Spiderman movies. That's right people, after this one I'm reviewing Spider-man 3 and the Amazing Spiderman. I'll also be reviewing each of the new episodes of Agents of SHIELD every week, so hopefully you'll be getting more reviews out of me nowadays.
While Spider-Man is my all-time favorite comic book movie, Spiderman 2 isn't. And the problem with it is just how constructed it is. Spider-Man felt alive and natural, everyone in the story from one character to the next was so defined and well written, they all felt like real people. But in Spider-Man 2, every character feels directed and pushed around by the script that no one really does anything natural.
Since there are so many problems and a lot of them have to deal with the script, i'm just going to go right there, since most of the characters are from the last movie and I'll get to the new ones later.
Right from the get go as the opening credits sequences role, we get reminded of just what an amazing movie the last one was by getting these beautifully drawn pictures of scenes and characters from the last movie. While these pictures are amazing and work to tell everyone what they missed last time, it only serves to remind me that Spider-Man was the best movie ever and as I watch this movie I keep wanting to return to watching Spider-Man.
Here's the thing, I still like Spiderman 2, but not as much as 1, and it has a LOT of problems, a lot more than even I realized the first time I saw it.
The biggest problem is how contrived it all is. Every new character or new event is somehow meticulously connected to everyone else in Peter's life. Mary-Jane is getting married to an astronaut who just so happens to be the son of J. Jonah Jameson. Oh, and remember how Jonah had that great character moment in Spider-Man when he refused to give Peter's name to the Green Goblin even though he hated Spiderman? Well they try to repeat that by making him get all sad about how he thinks he drove Spiderman to quit and then he gets all angry at him when he returns and we are supposed to laugh at how 180 he turns on the subject. That's not funny, it's annoying.
A lot of moments in this movie feel like they were just trying to recreate the feel of the last movie. And a lot of these moments are just unnecessary to the plot. There were a lot of unnecessary plot scenes in Spider-Man as well, but each of those scenes served to work with fleshing out the characters. In this movie, everyone is just left to follow the plot and everything that happens outside of the plot is just to make Peter more emo.
Here's another incredibly contrived connection between characters, Peter's teacher is good friends with Otto Octavius, Norman Osborn is working alongside Otto and sets Peter up with an interview with him so that he can write a paper for his class that will pass him. Oh yeah, Peter is failing his classes and loosing jobs because being Spiderman is cutting into a lot of his time and effort. And he keeps missing Mary-Jane's performances because he gets too late and the usher won't let him in.
Let's talk about this astronaut guy for a second now, because I hate him. Well, I don't exactly hate his character, since he seems like a pretty nice guy, but I do hate his reason for being in the movie. Here's a spoiler, it has nothing to do with the main plot. No, the only purpose he has to to marry Mary-Jane and make Peter more emo because he can't tell Mary-Jane his secret. And that is what pisses me off. At the end of the first movie, Peter made that great sacrifice and pushed Mary-Jane away because he can't risk hurting her. But then what does he do in this movie? constantly try to get with her while keeping his secret from her. It is pointless and the only reason I can think of why this happened is because a lot of people who saw Spider-Man 1 got really mad that the hero didn't get the smoking hot girl-next-door.
But I've griped on this movie long enough, now let me talk about what I do like about it. Like the first movie, what I love is their villain. I know the character of Doctor Octopus is a LOT different than in the movie, but so what, that's why I love him. Doctor Octopus is a terrible person in the comics, in this story, he's the perfect tragic villain. Just like with William Dafoe, Alfred Molina does his best performance when he is alone with his other side.
In Spider-Man, William Dafoe does his best performance by changing his voice and persona to fit two people in one head. In Spiderman 2, it's the polar opposite. There's only one person talking, but his interaction with the A.I. and metal claws is just brilliant. And the many times where the red eye in he center of one of the claws faces the screen with a side-shot of Otto's head just makes me get all excited for what happens next.
Though I do get a little annoyed at how the tentacle/claws keep getting shown like horror monsters, like when the doctor takes a chainsaw and tries to fight the claw. This felt like a direct spoof of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise and just made me feel like this was just something the studios wanted, so Sam Raimi just put together whatever he felt like.
All in all, a pretty crappy sequel, but not nearly as bad as the later two movies. Because soon we will find out just how every Spiderman movie has shamed itself by just trying to recreate the same glory as Spider-Man and just got worse than the last. Spiderman 2 is still a decent movie to eat popcorn and enjoy with a few friends, but don't think you are getting another masterpiece like before.
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