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2004
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PG13
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In SPIDER-MAN™2, the latest installment in the blockbuster SPIDER-MAN™ series, based on the classic Marvel Comics hero, TOBEY MAGUIRE returns as the mild-mannered Peter Parker, who is juggling the delicate balance of his dual life as college student and a superhuman crime fighter. Peter's life becomes even more complicated when he confronts a new nemesis, the brilliant Otto Octavius (ALFRED MOLINA) who has been reincarnated as the maniacal and multi-tentacled "Doc Ock." When Doc Ock kidnaps MJ (KIRSTEN DUNST), Spider-Man must swing back into action as the adventure reaches new heights of unprecedented excitement."SPIDER-MAN 2 outdoes the original by leaps and bounds." - Jeff Giles, NEWSWEEK "The Best Superhero Movie I've Ever Seen!" - Roger Ebert, EBERT & ROEPER
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Motion Picture ©2004 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Lew Irwin
Critics seem to agree: Spider-Man 2 (which opens at midnight tonight in most cities) is a marvel. Most of their reviews are packed with apparently shameless hyperbole. For example, Roger Ebert writes in the Chicago Sun-Times: Spider-Man 2 is the best superhero movie since the modern genre was launched with Superman (1978). It succeeds by being true to the insight that allowed Marvel Comics to upturn decades of comic-book tradition: Readers could identify more completely with heroes like themselves than with remote godlike paragons. Lou Lumenick writes similarly in the New York Post: Sequels don't get much better -- or smarter -- than the action-, drama-, romance- and comedy-packed Spider-Man 2, which miraculously improves on the webslinger's hugely popular first screen adventure in every imaginable department. Glenn Whipp's judgment in the Los Angeles Daily News: Best comic book movie -- ever. Really nothing comes close, which is both a commentary on the empty-headed manner with which the genre is generally approached and on the amazing achievement of [director] Sam Raimi's sequel. A.O. Scott in the New York Times observes that the film provides a striking example of what vibrant, intelligent and sincere popular filmmaking looks like. Mark Caro in the Chicago Tribune even admits to being wrong when he remarked in his review of the original Spider-Man that a sequel was a dubious proposition since by the end of the first movie, the tank seems nearly empty. Says Caro: Spider-Man 2 gives comic book movies, sequels and summer popcorn flicks a good name. Mike Clark in USA Today calls it simply, an uncommonly entertaining movie
Reviewed by: jfaville on 5/22/2007 7:15:10 PM
The best of the three Spider-man movies.
Lew Irwin
Critics seem to agree: Spider-Man 2 (which opens at midnight tonight in most cities) is a marvel. Most of their reviews are packed with apparently shameless hyperbole. For example, Roger Ebert writes in the Chicago Sun-Times: Spider-Man 2 is the best superhero movie since the modern genre was launched with Superman (1978). It succeeds by being true to the insight that allowed Marvel Comics to upturn decades of comic-book tradition: Readers could identify more completely with heroes like themselves than with remote godlike paragons. Lou Lumenick writes similarly in the New York Post: Sequels don't get much better -- or smarter -- than the action-, drama-, romance- and comedy-packed Spider-Man 2, which miraculously improves on the webslinger's hugely popular first screen adventure in every imaginable department. Glenn Whipp's judgment in the Los Angeles Daily News: Best comic book movie -- ever. Really nothing comes close, which is both a commentary on the empty-headed manner with which the genre is generally approached and on the amazing achievement of [director] Sam Raimi's sequel. A.O. Scott in the New York Times observes that the film provides a striking example of what vibrant, intelligent and sincere popular filmmaking looks like. Mark Caro in the Chicago Tribune even admits to being wrong when he remarked in his review of the original Spider-Man that a sequel was a dubious proposition since by the end of the first movie, the tank seems nearly empty. Says Caro: Spider-Man 2 gives comic book movies, sequels and summer popcorn flicks a good name. Mike Clark in USA Today calls it simply, an uncommonly entertaining movie
Reviewed by: jfaville on 5/22/2007 7:15:10 PM
The best of the three Spider-man movies.
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Reviewed by: jfaville on 5/22/2007 7:15:10 PM
The best of the three Spider-man movies.
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