Movie Time : Spider Man 2

Man this movie sucked !

After a while, and a fair amount of beer, I managed to plow through it ,especially the beginning , with the soul intentionof writing this report on it. Otherwise I would have tossed it.

Spider Man is a super hero with super powers. A piece of fiction. You watch movies about him mainly because your every day life is boring and you want to escape. This is in fact the main reason you watch any move. To escape into some kind of fantasy land for a while.

The makers of this movie forgot that.

It's a two hour movie. And they spend an hour and a half *WALLOWING* in not just how ordinary Spiderman's alter ego is, but making sure everything goes wrong for our boy. He's fired from two jobs, he almost flunks out of school ...

I don't mind drama. I watched the Core and loved it , a movie filled with ordinary people and no super powers by anyone . But the drama in this movie was so ridiculous, so unbelievable, as to be not worth the time. You made a two hour action film, spent an hour and a half on story ,and the story sucked ! It doesn't justify ten minutes of time, never mind over an hour.

Plus there's the fact that people come to the movie to escape their humdrum life. Not wallow in it. We all know that if you're constantly late for work , you get fired. Don't show up for class , you flunk. You don't need to rub our noses into this for an extended period of time.

That being said, after you get beyond the first half of the movie it actually gets interesting. Spider man shows up and starts in on the heroics, there's a bad boy out there ("Doc Oc") in need of some serious attention , they have a grand old time.

I rate this movie two out of five on the "Ottawa boy" meter, because only the second half would I watch again. The first I would certainly fast forward over.