I caught Spider-man 2 this evening. With this movie, I couldn’t escape the reviews and the hype, but I still enjoyed it. Most of all, it felt like the comic book. The movie even is paced like the comic book, with pulsing action, and then some backstory/development, then more pulsing action, in an almost predictable pattern. The ending, especially, was very comic-like, in setting up the next villian. Since we all know there will be a 3 and a 4 (and more?!) in this series, the comic serial method of foreshadowing so you’ll buy the next “issue” didn’t even feel out of place.
I actually saw this brilliant stop-motion Lego summary of the film before seeing the movie, but I just watched it again. If it cost $200 million to make and market the actual film, I wonder what it cost to make this film… marketing has been practically free, since everyone is spreading the link (like this).