""Spider-Man 2" is the best superhero movie since the modern genre was launched with "Superman" (1978). It succeeds by being true to the insight that allowed Marvel Comics to upturn decades of comic-book tradition: Readers could identify more completely with heroes like themselves than with remote godlike paragons. Peter Parker was an insecure high school student, in grade trouble, inarticulate in love, unready to assume the responsibilities that came with his unexpected superpowers. It wasn't that Spider-Man could swing from skyscrapers that won over his readers; it was that he fretted about personal problems in the thought balloons above his Spidey face mask."

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Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 American film based on the eponymous Marvel comic starring Tobey Maguire and Alfred Molina. It continues the story of Peter Parker's struggle to balance between his normal life and his life as Spider-Man. This film was released in theaters on June 30, 2004 in the United States.

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