Well, It's been a while since I don't post here, since last year to be more precise, but after seen TASM 2 and being a huge fan of the web head as I am, I might confess: Never in the history of my cinematographic epopeia I felt so touched, inspired and willing to cry like when I saw the last minutes of this film (Actually I cried).
CONS
Ok let's go over the cons first, but I will be brief because it really doesn't matter when you get to see the end. Like the first TASM (my first review in this blog btw) the plot is good but the way it is conducted is messy and rushed, nothing seems to fit. Electro was a poor choice as the main enemy in the plot and Jamie Fox was a bad pick for the already failed role. I've also never seen such a good actor as Paul Giamatti (Sideways and John Adams TV series) being so barely tapped and bad casted in a movie, he certainly deserved more then being a stupid thug and an even more stupid Rhino. Anyways, the worse thing is seeing a potential good script becoming a mess, with details that were rushed explained if explained at all. You will see in this sequel a Harry Osborn obsessed for Spiedey's blood when Oscorp has a bunch of genetic modified spiders available: The beginning of the story shows Peter's father killing all the spiders, but if so how come Peter got bitten in the first place? I might be overlooking some details but that's not all. There are several absurds, like Harry Osborn breaking in the Ravencroft institute as Harry Osborn, not the green Goblin yet. How come a spoiled rich young skinny man managed to pass through security. The other absurd is Gwen Stacy out of the blue expertise in electrical engineer, she knows how to operate New York electric power plant and her major apparently is Biomed, at least that's what we suppose to think after her internship with Dr. Connors on the first film and her sudden granted scholarship to study at Oxford.
PROS
But what doesn't save this sequel but makes it worth it is its climax. We still have a rushed and poorly developed Green Goblin to add the list of things that went wrong, but the thing is, the final battle between the Green Goblin and Spider Man looked really dramatic. As soon as Harry grabs Gwen, I knew, like many others, that she would die, but because I read the comics. This movie gives us a little hope, though. What impressed me was the way the scene was produced. It made us feel Spidey's desperation. He couldn't reach the goblin with his web, then she was dropped from a huge fall and Spider Man grabbed her giving the audience hope he would save her. After a complex battle against Harry and holding her as much as he could he let her go, this time literally, he even gave us a slightly little hope that he would catch and hang her at the last second, but the impact was inevitable. Her death is depressing and gives an unexpected dark tone to the film. Where is Mary Jane to comfort him?
But it's ok. Many parents and their children might have felt that Gwen's death was an unnecessary grief. In the comic she was boring and MJ was already introduced like a better option. But in the movie Gwen was full of life, she was sweet, good hearted, expressive. She was special. We can relate again with Peter's feelings, we can actually feel his pain. The way that he is portrayed at the graveyard to see her gravestone as the seasons go by is really gloomy and well written. Only by visual and nothing more we can relate and feel his sorrow, because we all have loved and felt attached at least once, even though we knew we had to let it go.
The bottom line is: The movie is still not well elaborated just like the first one, but I believe the climax made us feel just like our friendly neighborhood. And that kind of deep relation with the main character is rare to happen even in a drama movie. So I'm glad they did a good job at this part at least.
CONS
Ok let's go over the cons first, but I will be brief because it really doesn't matter when you get to see the end. Like the first TASM (my first review in this blog btw) the plot is good but the way it is conducted is messy and rushed, nothing seems to fit. Electro was a poor choice as the main enemy in the plot and Jamie Fox was a bad pick for the already failed role. I've also never seen such a good actor as Paul Giamatti (Sideways and John Adams TV series) being so barely tapped and bad casted in a movie, he certainly deserved more then being a stupid thug and an even more stupid Rhino. Anyways, the worse thing is seeing a potential good script becoming a mess, with details that were rushed explained if explained at all. You will see in this sequel a Harry Osborn obsessed for Spiedey's blood when Oscorp has a bunch of genetic modified spiders available: The beginning of the story shows Peter's father killing all the spiders, but if so how come Peter got bitten in the first place? I might be overlooking some details but that's not all. There are several absurds, like Harry Osborn breaking in the Ravencroft institute as Harry Osborn, not the green Goblin yet. How come a spoiled rich young skinny man managed to pass through security. The other absurd is Gwen Stacy out of the blue expertise in electrical engineer, she knows how to operate New York electric power plant and her major apparently is Biomed, at least that's what we suppose to think after her internship with Dr. Connors on the first film and her sudden granted scholarship to study at Oxford.
PROS
But what doesn't save this sequel but makes it worth it is its climax. We still have a rushed and poorly developed Green Goblin to add the list of things that went wrong, but the thing is, the final battle between the Green Goblin and Spider Man looked really dramatic. As soon as Harry grabs Gwen, I knew, like many others, that she would die, but because I read the comics. This movie gives us a little hope, though. What impressed me was the way the scene was produced. It made us feel Spidey's desperation. He couldn't reach the goblin with his web, then she was dropped from a huge fall and Spider Man grabbed her giving the audience hope he would save her. After a complex battle against Harry and holding her as much as he could he let her go, this time literally, he even gave us a slightly little hope that he would catch and hang her at the last second, but the impact was inevitable. Her death is depressing and gives an unexpected dark tone to the film. Where is Mary Jane to comfort him?
But it's ok. Many parents and their children might have felt that Gwen's death was an unnecessary grief. In the comic she was boring and MJ was already introduced like a better option. But in the movie Gwen was full of life, she was sweet, good hearted, expressive. She was special. We can relate again with Peter's feelings, we can actually feel his pain. The way that he is portrayed at the graveyard to see her gravestone as the seasons go by is really gloomy and well written. Only by visual and nothing more we can relate and feel his sorrow, because we all have loved and felt attached at least once, even though we knew we had to let it go.
The bottom line is: The movie is still not well elaborated just like the first one, but I believe the climax made us feel just like our friendly neighborhood. And that kind of deep relation with the main character is rare to happen even in a drama movie. So I'm glad they did a good job at this part at least.
