Due in part to A) the public shaming which was actually PRECEDED by a private shaming and B) another viewing on an August weekend, I thought I would add 2 cents (CAD) on my personal favourite movie of the franchise so far: Spider-Man 2.
The 2nd installment sees our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man now in college, and doing a pretty lousy job at keeping his grades up, keeping his job as a pizza delivery boy, and for crying out loud keeping his friends! He's definitely struggling with trying to balance life as a super hero with normal "Peter Parker" life.
Meanwhile, in an effort to provide a renewable energy source for the world, Doctor Otto Octavius attempts to demonstrate his ability to create, and sustain, a fusion reaction. Because no normal human could actually enter his machine, he developed intelligent "actuators" which are "impervious to heat and magnetism". He controls them via nano-wires that are connected directly to his cerebellum.
Of course, the experiment goes wrong, and the special chip he developed to ensure the artificial intelligence in the arms don't control him is destroyed, leading him to obsess over doing the experiment again...at ANY cost!
As if losing his friends and his pizza job wasn't enough, now our hero finds himself losing his spider powers!! He can't figure it out. By gosh, it's a lot of pressure for a college student!! He decides that MJ is more important than upholding justice and quits.
But any true fan knows that it's not long before a smart kid, a know-it-all Aunt, and the fact that his girlfriend has just been carted off by a guy with 4 EXTRA arms would bring him back.
So he dons his costume once more, with complete focus and all of his spider abilities to fight the evil! Does he win? Does he get the girl and red & blue tights to boot? All is revealed!!
Typically I find that sequels are nowhere near as good as the first film. In this particular instance, the 2nd film was far better (and the first was great).
Rating: *** 1/2
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