The best Spiderman movie and ever made, and possibly the best superhero movie too. It's got everything you want in a action movie. Comedy, action, drama, romance, amazing story, great acting, and the CG was beyond amazing. It's so great you'll never believe it released in 2004. Fantastic music score too. Imdb should have given this movie at least an 8.0 it deserves it.

This is a film that once you start watching it, you cannot stop. It is a surprisingly stunning film, both for its emotionally resonant melodrama and for its visually dazzling special effects. The protagonist struggles between being Spider-Man and being Peter Parker. Being a Spider-Man requires fighting against the villains and saving the civilians. Being Peter Parker demands a quiet life with Mary Jane. There are just tons of proverbs or mottos in the film: the screenplay, particularly the dialogue design, is simply amazing. The design of the villain is also fantastic, and is kind of unique in the history of superhero movies.

At the time this came out it was quite unique in the superhero genre. It showed character development compared to the first Spiderman and a good villian in Doc Octopus. While other superhero films since have matched/surpassed this template, this can be seem as a founding father to todays superhero flicks. For Harry Osborn, read Bucky Barnes. i was never a huge fan of Tobeys Spiderman, he was good as nerdy Peter Parker but as Spiderman he doesn't crack enough jokes, doesn't have a heroic presence and is too obsessed with rescuing Mary Jane. The latter part could work, except Mary Jane is an unlikable character and the worst part of the film. She's not a strong woman, she's a generic "damsel in distress" who is not exactly 100% loyal to Parker. Compared to what we seen on film in 2018 this type of woman seems quite backward and is not interesting. The film spends too much time focusing on the Parker-Jane relationship, which dragged the film down. Other aspects were good, Doc Ock's arc was fascinating and was a badass villain. Parkers struggle to balance being a superhero and a ordinary college student is well done, despite the obsession with Mary Jane. And the newspaper guy has the best laugh in the history of cinema. The ending nicely sets up the next film (which unfortunately turned out to be a disaster.) A good film that has been overshadowed somewhat by todays superhero flicks.

I like many superheroes, but Spider-man is my all-time favorite of the bunch. He just appeals to everyone young and old alike, with factors people can relate to; from Peter Parker's nerdiness to character development, to real-life problems such as family affairs, love, finances, jobs and so forth. I liked the first Spider-man movie (a good teen movie to boot), but this one took what was good about that one, improved it, and any negatives were fixed. What you have here is the perfect mixture of action, humor, drama, and suspense in one total package. Solid performances from Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and Alfred Molina, in fact Molina himself is a good version of Spider-man's deadliest foe, Doctor Octopus. You can even feel for him a little bit and even though you want Spider-man to stop him, at the same time you feel a little sorry for what he goes through in the transformation into villain role. I won't reveal the ending, but I will say it is a total triumph. This is so good, even the great critic Roger Ebert just had to put it on his top ten for 2004 (it ranked 4th), and that alone is a ringing endorsement