Spider-Man 2

Year: 2004

Grade: C

Country: USA

Director: Raimi

Review

300 million in the box office? raves from major reviewers across the nation? i really don’t understand it. this film is entirely innocuous and, as a result, mostly unimpressive. the romance scenes are decent, the character development is so-so (would have liked to have more of james franco’s character), and the action sequences are surprisingly unsurprising. most of the action sequences play out like a video game (now available on x-box, gamecube and ps2) and lack the creativity of something like the matrix, or even blade. essentially the film is so by the numbers that it comes off as an uninspired summer money machine, which is what it is. it’s about as good as the first one, which is to say it’s not all that good or bad.

Watched in theater