Why Spiderman 2 is the second worst superhero sequal ever.

When you ask yourself what was the worst super hero movie sequel ever what comes to mind first?
If you answered “Batman and Robin”, you would be correct.

But I am going to talk about the second worst.
No it is not “Spider-man 3”
No it is not “Rise of the Silver Surfer.”
It is “Spider-man 2”

This movie may be one of the most popular out there, but it is one of the worst for two reasons.
One: Plausibility
Two: totally destroying the source material.

I will start with plausibility. Specifically I will talk about the fusion reactor. In the first scene demonstrating Octavius using his arms to manipulate the fusion reactor.

Ok I want to first discuss the issue of heat. This movie shows some kind of force-field around it, so heat is not a problem for the bystanders.

Until the first flare.

The arc that struck the ceiling would actually be hot enough to melt the cement, and fry everyone in the room instantly. You may call it drama, I call it stupid. This is not the only thing wrong with that scene. As we see the metal objects flying into the mini-sun, they would have been so heavy that the sun would have collapsed on itself instantly. Even a small golden necklace would have been enough to collapse it.

Then later we see Spider-man give up on his powers and live a life of normalcy. This bugs me for more than one reason. First of all: if you stop using your arm, do you suddenly lose it? Apparently Spider-man lost the organs that make his webs, and he also lost all of his strength. His vision gets worse, and it appears that the spider bite has finally worn off. Absurd yet? Wait till his girlfriend is kidnapped, and suddenly they are back and better than ever.

That brings up another issue. Mary Jane is like the whiniest Super hero girlfriend ever. She cries, and demands all the attention. She does not care why Peter might be late, or even bother to find out why he has been secretive, she just decides that because his entire world does not revolve around her solely, that she should make him feel even worse, and then ditch him for another guy.

All of this would have been forgivable, had it not been for the fact that Spider-man 2 had the worst end battle ever. No not the train scene, that was a pretty good fight, but the fight that came after that was horrificly bad. Spider-man jumps and saves Mary Jane, and gets beaten up badly, then he miraculously electrocutes Doc Ock, who suddenly gains control of the arms, and decides he does not want to die a monster. He breaks the fusion reactor, and drops it into the ocean. The Ocean would actually destroy a small sun ball like that, but there are many more problems with this scene than whether or not that would work.

1.visual error, Doc Ock started out under the machine, and wound up above it, How?
2.Conceptual error, When the machine dropped it would have been so much heat applied to that water that all of the water within a 1/4 mile radius would have been instantly turned to steam.
3.Again a conceptual error. The second they disconnected the power source, the force-field would have gone down. That mean all of that heat, all of the magnetism would have been unleashed. They showed the magnetism issue, but completely left out the heat problem. All of that heat would have instantly burned up everyone in the building.


How does this kind of junk keep getting passed off as great work? Spider-man was a cliché popcorn flick with downright horrid science, and no pretenses at emulating real people and what they really feel and say. Doc Ock was miscast, and there were several conceptual errors throughout the film. I really had hoped that this would be the end of it all, but the same problems returned in Spiderman 3.

At least spiderman 3 had the great acting by James Franco (New Goblin) and Thomas Haden Church (Sandman) had it not been for them, Spiderman 3 would have been merely a spiderman 2.2