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Edited on Wed Jun-30-04 02:42 PM by Javamancer
<WARNING: MILD SPOILERS BELOW>
I enjoyed it a lot more than the first, and I really liked the first one! Of course, I'm rather biased, as I'm a huge Spider-man fan, and it was opening night, so the crowd was pretty jazzed.
The reviewers are dead on, this is the best superhero movie ever. I'm not sure it's a great movie for non-superhero fans. It probably works more for women than men in that regard, since the love story is so prominent and, true to its comic book roots, lathered in saccharine angst. I personally enjoyed that, but I could see how a lot of guys who don't normally like comic book movies wouldn't.
The action scenes are fantastic. The CGI's really improved this time, and the fight scenes are fun and inventive. It was like watching "Raiders of the Lost Ark" or "The Matrix" for the first time. Aunt May even gets a good lick in on Doc Ock. People were cheering throughout most of fights.
The humor is more satisfying, too, since it's peppered throughout the entire movie. Last time, it seemed like the humor ended after the wrestling match, at which point the movie turned into rather standard superhero fare of grimly hunting down the scene-chewing supervillian. This movie contains a lot more humor along the lines of the first one's cafeteria scene and subsequent scenes were Peter was learning his powers. This time, since the focus of probably the first 80% of the movie is Peter either getting kicked in the junk (figuratively speaking) or (subsequently) throwing in the towel, the comedic situations abound, and Raimi takes full advantage. My favorite scenes were Spidey riding an elevator after losing his web-slinging powers, and then a corny warm and fuzzy montage with "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" playing after Peter throws away his costume. There are also quite a few more scenes with J. Jonah Jameson, and he's a delight again.
I've seen some reviews that didn't like the first half of the movie's lengthy exposition, but I felt the character scenes were well-written and made the audience care about the characters, adding emotional weight to the later action scenes. There's another scene in the movie where Peter's carried over the top of crowd inside a tram that appears to be either an homage or jeer at "Passion of the Christ" (which I didn't see, so I can't be sure) that was intended to be sad, but the audience laughed. That scene just didn't work.
Anyway, I'll be going back this weekend. Hope you guys enjoy the film!
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