LogFAQs > #960826910

So, Spider-Man 2 does a lot of things right. It has some very, very poignant moments. My favorite from this movie in particular is Aunt May's talk about heroes. It's meaningful, even outside of the realm of comic books. There's a hero in all of us.

Then there's absolutely cornball shit like the scene of the passengers standing up for Spider-Man on the train, which is basically just a rehash of "you mess with one of us you mess with all of us" from the first movie, which was cheesy then, too. Even though it's kind of played as a joke in SM2, it's still corny shit.

The dialogue in general is either very strong or very stupid, with barely any room in between. I also always thought it was extremely dumb that the robotic arms had the capacity to mind control Octavius. Like, bro, what? Why? It's such an outlandish concept that the whole thing just seems like a wink-wink nudge-nudge at the audience, like Raimi's saying "lol, aren't comic books silly as shit?"

I dunno. Raimi's Spider-Man movies always walked the line between genuinely inspiring and hopelessly cheeseball, and SM2 might lean a little bit more toward the former but still has a ton of the latter.