Spider-Man 2 (DVD 2004)

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Spiderman's part is superb. His acting and the special effects are brilliant. However, similar to the original film the part of the villan was useless. Total waste of space and I think totally spoils the film.

It is a watchable film but no way as good as Superman. I hope the future films will be better.

Excellent film. Ask my 2 yr old kid! Great hit and always will be. It IS a Marvel! Most certainly recommended for a family viewing. 5*

the film is fanstastic.

I already had spiderman and spiderman 3 but missed the film in between so had missed when MJ realised Peter was Spiderman - when harry realised peter was spiderman and blamed him for his dads death.

The Doctor Octapus character was fantastic. A bady that was at heart a goody.

It was great watching this one and filling in the gaps between the other two films.

Again the special effects were fantastic.

I'm not really a marvel heroes fan but have loved the spiderman films. I have watched them all over and over which pleases my 4 year old son who loves Spiderman.

A well recommended film for even those women who think they won't enjoy it.

just love all the spiderman films i have to in a way because me son loves them..................................................................................
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mr allenden

there wasnt any thing that my son didnt like he loved it. the reason why we bought it was that my son had been going on at us 4 weeks and i looked at ebay and found it.

Haydon of Haydon hill, North Somerset UK

This was a top Ebay transaction, speedy delivery time, good communication and super condition new spinderman dvd as discribed. Highly recommended, no prmblems.

Thank you

this dvd was a birthday present, he loves it,it came in perfect condition, and was well worth the price p&p was worth the money, it was not over priced.

I bought this dvd 4 my 11yr old son, well so I thought! i'm a 37yr old mother, i'm a florist, i love prada shoes- sounds very grown up doesn't it? but when it comes to super hero movies, i turn back in2 an 11yr old again- who doesn't secretly wish they could fly or run faster than a speeding bullet? the inner child comes flooding out when i watch films like spider man 2- my son just looks at me as i pretend to spin my own web, and he says nothing! his face just says 'mum-you're such a loser'!!! great family viewing, no bad language, no explicit scenes, just great effects and escapism. from the super hero mum!!xxx

My son is spiderman crazy and this is a fantastic film with excellent graphics - highly recommended - I'm now going to buy Spiderman 3 because of the great mopvie Spiderman & Spiderman 2

Great film for all the family.
It has a very good insight into Spideman 3 as you see Spiderman having doubts.
So watch and enjoy a real must for all adventure and Marvel fans worldwide.

This dvd keeps my grandchildren glued to the tv.It is a good way for me to keep them quiet because once it has finished they want it back on again.I have watched it myself and it is well worth buying.

Bought it for my 3 year old son who LOVES Spiderman .. OK I love it too !
You know the story ... Brilliant-scientist-on-the-brink-of-fantastic-discovery-something-goes-wrong-transforms-into-twisted-evil-villian ... enter "DOC OCK" with his 4 evil metal arms which take control of his brain !
Spiderman is struggling to come to terms with his dual life and decides to hang up his lycra spidey suit .
Harry has taken over at Oscorp but wants revenge for his fathers death and blames Spiderman .
Doc Ock wants to re-build his perpetual energy machine but needs the finance and the raw material to begin the chain reaction - he makes a deal with Harry to bring him Spiderman if he supplies the raw material .
Despite some great action sequences this is probably my least favorite of the 3 films but after watching Spiderman and Spiderman 3 about 50 times each with my son , Spiderman 2 is at least a change!!

Director Sam Raimi weaves a wonderfully seductive web of arachnid action, human drama, and wink-nudge comedy in comicbook caper Spider-Man 2. It's been two years since Tobey Maguire first charmed audiences in the role of Peter Parker, the unassuming geek turned sticky-fingered superhero. Now he returns older, wiser, and dangerously world-weary. He ditches the Spidey suit after his superhero antics drive lifelong friend MJ Watson (Kirsten Dunst) into the arms of another. But his timing couldn't be worse...

As is wont in comicbook world, a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong and spawns a super-villain in Dr Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina), aka Doc Ock. (Note: side effects of cold fusion include sprouting four mechanical arms and a psychotic obsession with ruling the planet.) The welfare of the world sits heavy on Peter's shoulders, as does repressed guilt over his uncle's death and for killing best buddy Harry Osborn's father (aka The Green Goblin). It's a tangled web of intrigue, although screenwriter Alvin Sargent falls through a plothole when - despite being powerless to negotiate - Harry (James Franco) strikes a deal with Octavius for the head of Spider-Man.

"FINEST MARVEL ADAPTATION EVER"

Even with this pesky oversight, Spider-Man 2 is the finest Marvel adaptation ever committed to celluloid. That's largely thanks to Raimi, who treads the tightrope between comedy and tragedy with spidery stealth. Not since Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid has the use of freeze frame and Burt Bacharach's Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head been this funny and so poignant. Another scene, where Spidey is forced to ride the elevator, is just roll-in-the-aisles hilarious.

The action is also first class: the aerial shots of Spider-Man swinging through the city are breathtaking, and his one-on-one with a runaway train is as memorable for its emotional power as for its high-speed kinetics. Even better than the original, Spider-Man 2 will have you crawling the walls in anticipation of the third.

my son loves it! the action,the excitement..the spiders!! hes desperate to have spider man 2 and 3 now!

The web-spinning superhero returns to do battle with landlords, Doctor Octopus and his own romantic inhibitions
Confident, exciting, funny and crafted with real heart, Spider-Man 2 exceeds the kind of expectations that accompany Hollywood superhero blockbusters and sequels.

Sequels are normally exercises in cynicism, with screenwriter William Goldman memorably declaring them to be "whore's movies" (perhaps The Godfather II and The Empire Strikes Back are the exceptions that prove his rule). Yet on the back of 2003's entertaining X-Men sequel and now this second outing for Spider-Man, you wonder if certain sources lend themselves to further cinematic chapters. With 30 years of continuity for filmmakers to draw upon, the comic franchises have the potential to form deeper, more interesting stories with each instalment. Certainly Spider-Man 2 is a vast improvement on its predecessor.

Set two years after the events of Spider-Man (adroitly re-capped in the opening credits of the sequel by startling illustrations from comic artist Alex Ross), young Peter Parker (Maguire) is struggling to make ends meet in New York. The responsibilities of his crime-fighting alter ego are eating into his studying, his relationship with Mary Jane Watson (Dunst) and his job as a delivery boy. Rushing to deliver a batch of pizzas, Parker changes into Spider-Man to make it in time, making for an off-beat opening action sequence.

In this pizza delivery sequence, director Sam Raimi takes Stan Lee's groundbreaking approach to superheroes - fantasy adventures rubbing up against the real world of jobs and relationships - into fertile comic territory. It helps that Raimi's timing is so confident. The contemporary Hollywood mannerism of disorientating editing has left many blockbusters suffering death by a thousand cuts. By contrast, Raimi playfully draws out scenes to hilarious effect; one sequence in an elevator sees Spider-Man sharing embarrassed small talk, even confessing his costume "rides up in the crotch a bit".

The success of the first Spider-Man film (it took $820 million in worldwide box office gross) has given director Raimi the freedom to truly excel. The biggest improvement is the villain. Where Willem Defoe's Green Goblin was trapped behind a plastic mask, or forced to monologue tiresomely into a mirror, now we get Alfred Molina as Otto Octavius (later to become Doctor Octopus), a far more terrifying proposition.

Scientist Otto Octavius is experimenting with fusion, trying to create a small sun to solve man's energy problems. To help him in his work, he creates four artificially intelligent arms that connect directly into his nervous system. When the fusion experiment goes horribly wrong, his higher mental functions are overcome by the predatory minds of his arms. As hard-bitten newspaper editor J Jonah Jameson (Simmons) remarks, "Guy called Otto Octavius ends up with eight arms. What are the chances of that?"

Seething around him like snakes on the head of Medusa, the arms are characters in their own right; the devil on his shoulder, the evil little voice at the back of his mind. In one terrifying sequence in an operating theatre, the mechanical limbs lash out at the surgeons trying to remove them from Octavius' spine. It is a horrorshow straight out of Raimi's Evil Dead, complete with obligatory chainsaw.

Verdict
Deeper, darker, funnier and more exciting, it's almost as good as X-Men 2.

great and well thourght out plot. my son loves this film as does most boys of his age that want to be spiderman himself. all round family film. the charecters are exciting and have great costumes. the special effects are absolutly fantastic.

This DVD was of excellent quality..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

This was a present for my Son and he loves the film and was very pleased to have the DVD. The 2 disc special edition gives any extras that my son would be interested in, although it would be nice to have a little game in the bonus disc. Altogether an excellent buy.

this i think is one more for the girls, more of a love story and i had good cry
my 4 year old thought it was good

Even better than the first, great story, great evolution, glad they didn't drag out the secret identity too much. The quintessential comic book movie. 5* all the way

Peter Parker is having problems with his double life as the superhero Spider-Man and as things get worse he decides never to be Spider-Man again. It's only when the scientist Dr Otto Octavius becomes deformed in a freak accident into Dr Octopus that he realises that only Spider-Man can stop him.

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We are all Spiderman fans in our house and had misplaced our copy of Spiderman 2, hence why we bought a replacement via eBay. This DVD is fabulous and is definitely a good sequel to Spiderman. Although the whole story is obviously fictional, the characters are believable and very easy to warm to. You find yourself desperate for Peter and Mary Jane's relationship to develop and it is a spine tingling moment when she finally realises her old school mate is Spiderman! Doc Oc is a great 'baddie' for Spidey to battle against too. It's a must to watch!!

Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man 2'

"Face it, Tiger, you just hit the jackpot", Mary Jane Watson

~ Dialogue straight out of the comic book ensuring that this sequel is going to be well worth the wait! OK, not quite as good as the first - sequels seldom are - but a valiant effort on the part of Sam Raimi.

Here we have the next big Super Villain, Dr Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus [Alfred Molina], who is about to further complicate Spider-Man's [Tobey Maguire] already failing personal life: Parker is experiencing financial difficulties and his studies are slipping. To top it all off, Mary Jane [Kirsten Dunst] is now engaged to astronaut John Jameson, son of Parker's overbearing newspaper editor, Jonah. Things just go from bad to worse for the web-slinger.

Meanwhile, following the death of his father [the Green Goblin], Harry Osborn has now now taken over Oscorp Industries and is in business talks with Dr Otto Octavius. The Doctor, Parker's idol, has created a set of mechanical arms that are impervious to heat and magnetism; the experiment goes wrong and the arms become fused to the spine of Octavius, taking complete control of the doctor both mentally and physically.

Aunt May is later captured and taken hostage by Dr Octopus. Spider-Man too falls prey to capture and is delivered to Harry, where his true identity is under threat. How much can one guy take?

'Spider-Man 2' is all about choices for Peter Parker: lose his alter-ego and concentrate on number one or continue with the responsibility he chose after the death of Uncle Ben ~

Raimi has skillfully recreated the classic scene - panel-for-panel - from Amazing Spider-Mam #50, Spider-Man No More, written by Stan Lee, pencilled by John Romita, and inked by Mickey Dimeo. Here Parker is seen leaving a rainy alleyway where his discarded costume hangs from the throat of a garbage can. Raimi has concentrated on the Parker who is forced to deal with actual everyday problems in Spider-Man 2, one we can all sympathize with. Parker's character outweighs that of other superheroes, for the simple fact that - at heart - he is just an ordinary guy trying to exist in a complicated world.

Also stars: Bill Nunn, J K Simmons, Ted Raimi, Bruce Campbell with Cliff Robertson and Willem Dafoe.

Matthew J Lee-Williams, Review.