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Apr 19 2005
Spider-Man 2 the Movie Review
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| Summary: Ages more like milk than wine
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Some movies just do not age well, and Spider-Man 2 is one of these movies. It seemed great when we saw it a year ago in a theatre, but it really loses a lot of its appeal upon repeated viewings. The action and stunts look great at first, but the horrendous CGI becomes very evident when seen a second or third time. I appreciate that the filmmakers avoided using CGI for Doc Ock's tentacles whenever possible, but they end up tossing this credibility down the toilet and giving it a good flush by using CGI models of Spider-Man and Doc Ock in fight scenes that look as though they were rendered in about 15 minutes and don't look or move life-like at all.
This could have been made up for by the fact that Spider-Man 2 focuses less on action and stunts and more on telling a story, but unfortunately a lot of the acting in this flick is so incredibly honky-tonk that it's hard to watch. I'm aware this is a superhero movie, but Doc Ock uttering the line "you've stuck your webs into my business for the last time" is enough to provoke vomiting. That kind of dialogue belongs in the 1966 Batman TV series, not a movie made in 2004, superhero or otherwise. Another huge flaw is the UMD's lack of a scene selection feature, making it so that finding a good scene in the movie is even more of a difficult task than it already was.
There's not much to complain about if the Spider-Man 2 UMD Video was included with your PSP for free, but those who get a Spidey-less PSP shouldn't even consider paying for a box copy. At the time of writing this, Kill Bill: Volume 1, House of Flying Daggers, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico have been released for UMD Video and are all better choices for an action movie, and by the time Spider-Man 2 is available for sale, even more will have been released.
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