Comic book fans beware! - Spider-Man 2 Reviews

I don't usually read user reviews, as there is no middle ground in their rating: it's either brilliantly flawless or a waste of time, an 'A' or an 'F', with little time spent justifying the grade. But as a film major, weary of hollywood glitz and an industry spending more time catering to tweens and less time catering to me, I beg of you to take a second and just read what I have to say. Spiderman II did not impress me, although it tried many times. For a film littered with excellent CGI effects, competent actors, and helmed by a satirical director who made a name for himself making low budget cult classics and not studio "tentpoles" , you'd expect my review to be glowing with praise. This is not the case. At 125 minutes in length, Spiderman II is drawn out, uneven, and artificially quirky, not to mention very, very hollywood. Try as they might, Tobey Maguire and Alfred Molina struggle with the script that is admittedly beneath them (David Koepp is sorely missed this time out). Doc Ock is an afterthought, a villian who only moves the plot foward by throwing debris around. His character is never explained, his complex psyche never explored. If you agreed that Willem Dafoe was over the top in the original, then