Spider-Man 2 is a rare sequel that is much better than the original movie.

Plot In A Paragraph: After two years of fighting crime as Spider-Man, Peter Parker's life has begun to fall apart. The girl he loves is dating someone else, his grades are slipping, he cannot keep his jobs, as he is always late due to some crisis always coming up. He reaches his breaking point and gives up life as Spiderman. But at the same time after an accident scientist Dr. Otto Octavius is transformed into super villain Doctor Octopus, having four long tentacles as extra hands.

Tobey Maguire is much better this time around in the lead role as Peter Parker. Raimi also gave the sequel a very memorable villain in Doctor Octopus, as played by Alfred Molina, who was terrific as Doctor Octopus. Spider-Man 2 gives Otto a tragic backstory and you did actually feel some pity for him. Director Sam Raimi gives us a good story too, with Harry Osborne (again brilliantly played by James Franco) hunting Spiderman down, for what he believes is the murder of his Dad as a subplot.

The screenwriters of Spiderman 2 must have studied "Superman II", because its story is very similar to The Man Of Steels sequel in many ways. Both films re-cap the first film through their opening credit sequences. In this film, Peter Parker chooses to give up his double life as a superhero in order to have a relationship with his one true love, Mary Jane. In "Superman II", Clark Kent gives up his double life, and his abilities, so that he may be with Lois Lane. In both movies, the hero is urged not to give up his powers by a relative, and both regain their powers when it's needed. In this film, a train-full of people stand up to Doc Ock, and he easily dismissed them. In "Superman II", a street-full of people stand up to General Zod believing he has killed Superman, but he simply blows them away. And finally in both movies the love of the heroes life finds out his secret identity.

But copying a movie considered by many to be one of the greatest Superhero sequels ever made, is no bad thing.