Spider-Man 2 Reviews

Tough to watch without getting bored in the middle - it's a two-hour-plus film that easily could have shed half an hour - and not imagining how it could have been better.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Plot developments are labored upon so heavily that I felt compelled to stand up in my seat during the screening and shout out, 'Okay! We get it!'

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Feels like a remake of the first one, with the same character struggles and plot points we've come to expect

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The lightning that struck for so many of this summer's sequels fails to ignite Spider-Man 2. The franchise remains a tolerable proposition tolerably well-executed.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

There are a lot of dull spots where there's only banal chatter.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

The movie's first half is talky bordering on tiresome -- endlessly rehashing the same mix of frustrated puppy love, survivor guilt, and identity crisis.

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Comic-book dialog, where everything has life or death urgency, yet you can still take time to wax philosophical... same movie - with less swing-time, and almost no fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Good but far from great.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

I can't figure out why anybody would want to waste 127 minutes sitting through this thing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

The superhero as schlemiel returns...a tangled web of drippy, comic-book psychodrama.

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...Spider-Man 2, despite a terrific villain, is boring.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

A noisy, dopey sci-fi thriller.

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Gets the characters where they need to go, but it doesn't develop their struggles to a satisfactory level.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Surges and sags in massive sections.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

For a big-budget action movie Spider-Man 2 is modest and not assaultive -- it has a boring decency.

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I feel it's my responsibility to suggest that the best choice is to hold out for the DVD rather than shell out 10 bucks for this cornball, half-hearted, fitfully exciting rehash.

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Spider-Man 2 is not what you expect from the typical summer blockbuster, but you'll still eat it up like a bag of popcorn.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

As a summer blockbuster, Spider-Man 2 is unassailable, the most you could possibly ask for from a film of its type.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

He could be any of us, exposed, overcoming our fears and coming to grips with our destiny. He reminds us of why we were ever excited by superheroes in the first place.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

...a well-realized stab at melding comic book pow-sock-bang with a more adult psychological drama

Full Review | Original Score: A