After the first spider-man movie my anticipation was another action flick with a little romance thrown in. But, spider-man 2 came across as a Shakespearean tragedy with a little action thrown in. Peter parker's relationship with Mary Jane was an important part of the picture and I think should have been explored but it was elevated much higher than necessary for an action flick... The special effects was great and the action that was present was good. I can enjoy a good love story with heart brake and heart ache but not at the expense of blowing things up, mischief and mayhem. The train scene was great action then went straight downhill. That "win one for the gipper" stuff is just very hackneyed and usually not very well done as is the case in this movie. Even though spider-man is a comic book character and if you read the comic book you had an idea of how things would end up, the movie seemed to telegraph what was happening next to whom and when. There was no real drama just a lot of Kleenex moments which don't fill the void for some action.