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Spider-Man 2 (Widescreen Special Edition)
from Sony Pictures
starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, James Franco, Rosemary Harris
directed by Sam Raimi

Features:

• AC-3
• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• BETTER THAN MOST OF ITS KIND
  I liked the CGI work, and non-stop action, but was quite happy to see the characters in SPIDEY-2 become less cardboard-like than many of the super clowns ( and 'clones' ) coming to big ( and little ) screens everywhere these days. This movie had some heart, and a lot of that was due to another excellent performance by Alfred Molina. His 'Doc Ock' is a much more well-rounded, and conflicted villain than I've seen in a while, and while my personal preference in super-heroes tends to swing closer to HELLBOY,... more info

• I gave the first one a 10 out of 10, this one is even better
  It would be way too predictable for me to use an exaggeration here like, "since this is better than the first, and I gave the first one a 10 out of 10, then I'm giving part 2 a 15 out of 10!!" I won't quite say that. There's only one movie that deserves such an outrageous claim of actually scoring OUTSIDE the scale of numbers allotted for the rating, and that's Back to the Future part 1. Sorry, I got a off on a tangent, Spike Lee style. Back to Spider-Man 2.
  This truly outdoes the first movie in terms... more info

• Better then the original
  This movie is 2 hour and 7 minutes long and better then the original. What makes it better is there is more action and roll along at a good pace. With the origin of how Spiderman came to be out of the way, the movie kicks right in. Peter Parker has put his social life on hold and has taken to crime fighting fulltime; which puts a damper on his college studies and work life. Now there is a new villian, Doc Ock. He has four mechanical arms. So I guess if you add his own arm and legs gives reason to an... more info

• 1.5 stars out of 4
  The Bottom Line:
  Coupling a dead fish of a romance with a complete anti-climax of a superhero movie, Spider-man 2 fails in almost every conceivable way; put it this way, it's never a good sign when your villain is five times more likable and sympathetic as your superhero.

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