Otto Octavius ( Alfred Molina), whose laboratory on the banks of the East River houses an experiment that will either prove that fusion can work as a cheap source of energy, or vaporize Manhattan. "Spider-Man 2" gives Spider-Man an enemy with a good nature that is overcome by evil.
The seasons in a superhero's life are charted by the villains he faces (it is the same with James Bond). His inspired 2000 novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay chronicles the birth of a 1940s comic book superhero and the young men who created him he worked on the screen story that fed into Alvin Sargent's screenplay. One of the keys to the movie's success must be the contribution of novelist Michael Chabon to the screenplay Chabon understands in his bones what comic books are, and why. Sam Raimi, the director of both pictures, this time seems to know exactly what he should do, and never steps wrong in a film that effortlessly combines special effects and a human story, keeping its parallel plots alive and moving. I was disappointed by the original " Spider-Man" (2002), and surprised to find this film working from the first frame. When a bum tries to sell the discarded Spidey suit to Jonah Jameson, editor of the Daily Bugle, Jameson offers him $50. He's on the edge of a breakdown: He's lost his job as a pizza deliveryman, Aunt May faces foreclosure on her mortgage, he's missing classes, the colors run together when he washes his Spider-Man suit at the Laundromat, and after his web-spinning ability inexplicably seems to fade, he throws away his beloved uniform in despair. Parker ( Tobey Maguire) is in college now, studying physics at Columbia, more helplessly in love than ever with Mary Jane Watson ( Kirsten Dunst). It wasn't that Spider-Man could swing from skyscrapers that won over his readers it was that he fretted about personal problems in the thought balloons above his Spidey face mask. Peter Parker was an insecure high school student, in grade trouble, inarticulate in love, unready to assume the responsibilities that came with his unexpected superpowers.
It succeeds by being true to the insight that allowed Marvel Comics to upturn decades of comic-book tradition: Readers could identify more completely with heroes like themselves than with remote godlike paragons. "Spider-Man 2" is the best superhero movie since the modern genre was launched with " Superman" (1978).
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