Monday, 21 January 2013

Spiderman, spiderman, rejects the call whenever he can


Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Directed by Sam Raimi this sequel stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco and Alfred Molina. Peter Parker struggles to deal with balancing his personal life and his life as a super hero.

There is a lot to like about this film and it does have some really good moments but the problem with this film is when you put it in context of the story of the original. Nearly the entire first film was about the consequences of the protagonist “rejecting the call” and coming to terms with being a super hero so going over the same ground again in the sequel does feel redundant. As a pure piece of entertainment the film is pretty good although it does threaten to veer into Richard Lester Superman territory at times with the comedic interludes.

3/5

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