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| Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) has mixed feelings about being Spider-Man. He also has a full plate of trouble. His erstwhile girlfriend (Kirsten Dunst) may marry a man she doesn't love; his best friend (James Franco) wants to kill Spider-Man to avenge his own father's death; his beloved aunt is bankrupt; and, worst of all, Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) wants to destroy New York. | |
| Director Sam Raimi balances these stories and keeps breathing life and humour into a sequel-ready franchise that could, in less caring hands, simply become an assembly line of big-budget blockbusters, all sensation and no emotional weight. |
Tobey Maguire. ©2004 Columbia Pictures.
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Spider-Man, however, is a complicated superhero - a
beleaguered, sometimes weak Everyman who happens to be able to save the
lives of people in out-of-control speeding trains with his super-strong
sticky web. And he's just what the summer movie schedule needs.
Gay Interest: Molina starred as Joe Orton's lover in Prick Up Your Ears, while Franco played James Dean in the TV biopic of the same name. Queer As Folk's Hal Sparks - comic-book nerd Michael Novotny - appears in a cameo role. |
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