For me my guidlines that i use to rank any superhero movie are Tim Burton's Batman & Batman Returns, always has been and probably stay like that for a while. Having seen them as a kid, i may be bias as they hold memories but hey, they're my favourites. I didn't really know much about spider-man before seeing the first movie back in 2002, but i liked it. however Spider-man 2 improves on Spider-man in nearly every aspect. Some of ideas are the same, the bad guy is someone peter parker looks up to in both films, untill they have something happen to them and turn evil, but hey, what comic book doesn't do that? Peter parker is pretty conflicted in this but from i've seen its x10 in spider-man 3. Personally what makes this film work is that looking at it, its easy to assume its just another comic book movie, but no, its not. it manages to balance the action and emotional aspects brilliantly. You have Alfred Molina, a stage actor of theatre and every experienced playing role of Doc Oc. Personally i think he's the ground of the film, he ties it together, it gives it that extra level of professionalism that makes it a cut above the average comic book flick. The action scenes (train and bank heist especially) are thrilling and really cool to watch unfold.
The love story of peter & Mary Jane is given alot of screen time which i think helped the film, cus it gave it depth, and thats what this film had over spider-man 1. it was about peter, not spider-man.
In all, one of highlights of 2004, up there with best comic book films and well...roll on Spider-man 3.
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