I saw this movie on DVD as kid and I didn't like it because there was "too much Peter Parker, not enough Spider-Man." I enjoyed the train sequence and the ending, but that was just it.

Years later, I started to see people saying Spider-Man 2 is the best superhero movie ever made and deep down I disagree. I did go back and watched the movie after seeing Spider-Man(2002) and man...man, was I wrong about this movie. This movie has such a deeper meaning to it and very relatable to the real life world. Dare I say, IT'S HUMAN! Seeing Peter struggling with school and jobs is related to how people are in the world. Seeing Doc Ock from being a good scientist and lovely husband to a mad scientist from a experiment gone wrong to a guy sacrificing himself to save New York. Now that is something you don't see in superhero movies. A bad guy becoming a hero.

The writing is great and the visual effects still holds up to this day. If you think about it, every character, including the ones with small roles, has a story and it's memorable. Sam Raimi did an awesome with this movie.

It's sad that some people say this movie is terrible and Spider-man fans only like it because of nostalgia which is not true. The people who say these things: -Never actually seen the movie -Never grew up with it -Find something to nitpick -Heard it from someone else -Never understood anything in this movie -Not their type of movie I always quote "people hate what they don't understand" because I see movies with good universal praise gets bash by people who don't understand why it's good as it is. They'll never bother putting 2 and 2 together to understand the movie. The movie is there to show and tell while you figure it out yourself before judging the film. THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED ART!