Spiderman is now in movies and yes, it rocks. If you hated the first one you will still hate this one. But for everyone else, you definitely don’t want to miss what I think is probably the best super hero movie of all time. Though, X-Men 2 was pretty good too.
What really struck me about this movie was how much of it is really about Peter Parker. This movie is much less “cheesy” than the first one. It’s much more about how ordinary people are having to deal with extraordinary events.
Peter Parker isn’t your typical comic book hero. He’s just this guy, a guy who just doesn’t seem to cut any breaks. He doesn’t have very much money. He’s having a hard time juggling job, school, and being a super hero. And Mary Jane has given up waiting for him.
While admittedly the movie violates the laws of physics over and over again, I can forgive it because it really lets us peer into some of the tedium that goes into being a super hero. Having your costume bleed into your whites in the laundry. Having to get around down town. And while Spiderman can take a lot more punishment than the average person, unlike superman, he’s not invulnerable.
On my IMDB index, I give this a 9/10 (first movie of 2004 to get that high).