Spider Man 2 (2004) Movie Review

Hello again guys and welcome back for another round of movie review with Movie Nerd, a place where you can be nerdy about movies and that's OK with it!

We continue our Spider Man week with the second entry from Sam Raimi's trilogy and one of the best comic book movies ever.

A little synopsis if you will: two years have passed since the mild-mannered Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) walked away from his longtime love Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) and decided to take the road to responsibility as Spider-Man. Peter must face new challenges as he struggles to cope with the gift and the curse of his powers while balancing his dual identities as the elusive superhero Spider-Man and life as a college student.

With this movie, Sam Raimi follows in the footsteps of James Cameron with Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Bryan Singer with X2. With this, I mean that he improved everything from the first movie. The story, the villain, the emotional focus, the action, the characters and, overall, the whole movie.

The emotions are bigger in this one and the character study as well, mainly the hero and the villain. Both of them confronts loss in this movie but, in the end, they find the hero inside of them. Plus, if you look closely and remember the first movie you will see two scenes that are in contrast with two scenes from the first one, involving Peter Parker. And I think that this is brilliant.

The villain is more complex in the second movie because we was a good man that was turned into a criminal by experiencing loss but, eventually, that good side emerges for one last time.

Peter Parker is also more complex in this one, juggling his personal like with the commitment of being Spider-Man. And all those emotions are the reason why he looses, temporarily, his powers. Though the hero inside of him still remains throughout the movie, which is admirable.

A great sequel which can stay up alongside Terminator 2, Aliens, X2 and The Dark Knight, to mention a few sequels that surpassed the original. Plus, I liked the theme song slightly changed, the opening which showed a resume of the first movie and the effects are a bit improved but still obvious. 8.5/10

OK guys. that was my review for this one as well. Next up, the one that killed this series and I think you know which one I am talking about. Until then, take care, stay movie nerdy and keep on reviewing!