This here is all about the second installment of the three Spiderman movies that are out. Personally out of all the movies this was my least favorite because it seems like everyone is just off their rocker and that they can’t keep their lives straight. This is especially true when considering Peter Parker himself. He is struggling really with his personal life Mary Jane Watson is engaged to someone else and Peter doesn’t know what to do about it. Spiderman is being attacked by the press and because of all that drama he isn’t doing so well is school and he can’t hold a job. In other words Peter Parker is gradually falling apart piece by piece. He’s losing faith in himself and so he lets Spiderman fall away and let those that believe in him think that he has just gone away.
Peter isn’t the only one whose life is falling apart though. Dr. Otto Octavius is giving a presentation to Harry Osborn when it all goes horribly wrong and the doctor’s wife is killed in the process and he becomes fused with mechanical tentacles that do what he makes them do. So another villain is born and like the others before him Doc Ock has a vendetta against Spiderman because what Harry Osborn wants more then anything in the whole world is revenge against the person he believes killed his father.
So Doc Ock and Harry make a deal. Harry agrees to give Octavius the last piece to the puzzle that he needs to complete the experiment that went wrong and Doc Ock will get Harry Spiderman. So ensues a fight and what not and Doc Ock takes down Spiderman and brings him to Harry and the exchange is made. Little known to Peter because he is unconscious when he is brought to Harry’s but he’s up when Harry removes his mask. It would be an understatement to say that Harry wasn’t a little more then upset by the fact that his best friend is Spiderman and that Peter in turn then is the one that killed Norman Osborn.
So that is really the major part of the storyline for this story. Like I said everyone’s life is really in the dog house with this movie and there isn’t a whole lot going on other then that. No one is really all that happy even Mary Jane that is engaged isn’t really happy and she knows it she just doesn’t know what to do about it. So the story goes on everyone just stumbling along trying to make ends meet and come out alive and well in the end.
I would have to say that out of all the super hero movies there are this is the least well done. I just wasn’t a big fan. The Spiderman movies aren’t my favorite to begin with but there was just so much drama and heart ache that it was almost too much to have in one movie. Don’t get me wrong it was well made and the sequences were put together well, it worked it really did I just didn’t like it as much as the other two or other movies like Batman and Iron Man.
Peter is forced to make a lot of tough choices and deal with the repercussions of those decisions all on his own. He feels misunderstood and doesn’t really know what to do other then give up this double life that he has been living. So he has a choice live a life of his own and lets those that believe in him down or be the hero that leads a life of chaos and terror. It is quite epic when you think of it in that sense and ask yourself what would I do if I were in his shoes.
On those notes then I say this. Spiderman is a good movie not one of my favorites but it is good all the same. There isn’t a whole lot of range with this movie because it is a lot of gloom and doom but they still hit the two main groups of viewers.
For men there is the action. From Doc Ock and his tentacles reaping havoc on the city trying to get what he wants. To Harry putting his two sense in there about wanting Spiderman to pay for what he did to Harry’s father. To Peter as Spiderman and his attempts to make the city a safe place to live and thrive in what seem to be never ending times of difficulty and failure.
Then for the women as always there is a love story. Not only with Peter and Mary Jane, we will get back to that later, but now you have the tragedy of Dr Octavius and his wife. The action and horror that springs from Doc Ock is really fueled but the sadness the he feels from losing his wife and knowing that it was his fault. They were so much in love and she believed in him but she was to close when the experiment went south and he survived but she didn’t and he just can’t get over that. Then as always there is our hero and his love interest only this time it has gotten complicated. Peter and Mary Jane love each other but Peter doesn’t want her to suffer because he is Spiderman and in order to insure her safety he can’t be with her. It kills him to say it and let her go but he does it anyway, well at least for as long as he can stay away that is.
There are many twists and turns, and they did do a fair job with this movie so here in 9th place I say it deserves the $373,585,825 that it made. IMDB gives it a 7.7/10 and I give it an 8/10.
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