Spider-Man 2

Name: Spider-Man 2

Directed by: Sam Raimi

Screenplay by: Alvin Sargent

Screen Story by: Alfred Gough and Miles Millar Michael Chabon

Based Upon Marvel Comic Books by: Steve Ditko and Stan Lee

Produced by: Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin Lorne Orleans (IMAX)

Executive Producers: Joseph M. Caracciolo Kevin Feige and Stan Lee

Music by: Danny Elfman

Cinematography by: Bill Pope

Film Editing by: Bob Murawski

Production Design by: Neil Spisak

Studio: Pixar Animation Studios

Production Company: Marvel Enterprises

Producer/Release: 20th Century Fox

Airdate: June 30, 2004

Length: 128 minutes

Budget: $200 million

Box Office: $783.8 million

Pixar Movie Number: 580

Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi and written by Alvin Sargent from a story by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon. The sequel to the 2002 film Spider-Man, it is the second film in Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy based on the fictional Marvel Comics character of the same name. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco reprise their respective roles as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson, and Harry Osborn.

Set two years after the events of Spider-Man, the film focuses on Peter Parker struggling to manage both his personal life and his duties as Spider-Man, while Dr. Otto Octavius (Doctor Octopus) becomes diabolical following a failed experiment and his wife's death. He uses his mechanical tentacles to threaten and endanger the lives of New York City's residents. Spider-Man must stop him from annihilating the city.

Spider-Man 2 was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on June 30, 2004. It grossed $783.8 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. It also received five awards at the Saturn Awards ceremony including Best Fantasy Film and Best Director for Raimi. The film's success led to the release of Spider-Man 3 in 2007.

Plot
Peter Parker struggles to balance his crime-fighting duties as Spider-Man with the demands of his normal life. Estranged from both love interest Mary Jane Watson and best friend Harry Osborn, Peter additionally discovers his Aunt May is facing foreclosure.

Harry, now head of Oscorp's research division, sponsors the brilliant nuclear scientist Otto Octavius' fusion power project. While handling the equipment, Octavius wears a harness of powerful robotic tentacle arms with artificial intelligence. In a demonstration, a power spike causes the fusion reactor to destabilize. Octavius refuses to shut down the reactor, which goes critical, killing his wife and damaging his robotic arms; in the process, the inhibitor chip controlling the arms is rendered useless. Spider-Man arrives and shuts down the experiment, destroying it in a massive explosion before it can do any further damage.

At a hospital, doctors prepare to surgically remove Octavius's harness. However, after the inhibitor chip is destroyed, the arms have developed sentience. They spring to life and attack the medical crew, killing most of them. Upon regaining consciousness and seeing the carnage, Octavius escapes and hides at a harbor. Becoming increasingly influenced by the arms' AI, Octavius robs a bank to fund another experiment. When Spider-Man is attempting to save Aunt May, Octavius is upset because he stuck his webs in his business once again. The Daily Bugle subsequently dubs him Doctor Octopus.

Mary Jane becomes engaged to astronaut John Jameson, son of Bugle chief J. Jonah Jameson. Peter suffers an emotional breakdown and temporarily loses his powers. He abandons his Spider-Man identity, returns to his normal life and tries to reconcile with Mary Jane. A garbageman brings Spider-Man's costume to J. Jonah Jameson, who takes credit for Spider-Man's disappearance. Peter tells Aunt May that his Uncle Ben's death some time ago was his fault. May forgives him, but the rise in New York City crime rate worries Peter.

Octavius needs tritium to fuel his reactor and goes to Harry to demand it. Harry agrees in exchange for Spider-Man's life. He tells Octavius to seek Peter, who is supposedly good friends with Spider-Man. Octavius locates Peter, tells him to find Spider-Man, and captures Mary Jane. Peter's powers are restored, and he steals back his costume from the Bugle and goes after Octavius.

As Spider-Man battles Octavius, they fall onto a rapid transit R train. Octavius sabotages the controls and jumps off, and Spider-Man struggles to stop the train before the track ends. When he faints from exhaustion, the passengers carry him into one of the cars. He comes to and realizes his mask is off, but the passengers promise not to reveal his identity. Octavius returns, easily subdues Spider-Man, and delivers him to Harry.

After giving Octavius the Tritium, Harry prepares to kill Spider-Man, only to be shocked to see Peter under the mask. Saying greater things are at stake, he convinces Harry to reveal Octavius's location. Spider-Man arrives at the doctor's waterfront laboratory and tries to rescue Mary Jane discreetly. One of Octavius's tentacles senses him, and they fight. Spider-Man ultimately subdues Octavius, reveals his identity, and persuades Octavius to let go of his dream for the greater good. Octavius finally commands the tentacles to obey him and drowns the fusion reactor, along with himself, in the Hudson River. Mary Jane discovers Spider-Man's true identity and feelings, as well as why they cannot be together. Spider-Man returns Mary Jane to John and leaves.

Harry is visited by a vision of his father, pleading for Harry to avenge his death. Refusing to hurt Peter, Harry shatters the mirror, unintentionally revealing a secret room containing the Green Goblin's equipment. On her wedding day, Mary Jane abandons John at the altar and runs to Peter's apartment. After they kiss, they hear police sirens, and Mary Jane encourages him to respond as Spider-Man.

Voice Cast

 * Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
 * Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson
 * James Franco as Harry Osborn
 * Alfred Molina as Dr. Otto Octavius / Doc Ock / Doctor Octopus
 * Rosemary Harris as May Parker
 * J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
 * Donna Murphy as Rosalie Octavius
 * Daniel Gillies as John Jameson
 * Dylan Baker as Dr. Curt Connors
 * Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
 * Harry Osborn's deceased father who appears as a hallucination. Dafoe came up with the idea during promotion for Spider-Man, which he compared to King Hamlet haunting his son to avenge him.
 * Mageina Tovah as Ursula Ditkovich

Media Release

 * Spider-Man 2 is released on DVD and VHS on November 30, 2004.

Aspect Ratios

 * 2.35:1/1.85:1 (CinemaScope and Full Open Matte/Widescreen)

DVD Main Menu

 * Play Movie
 * Scene Selection
 * Special Features
 * Deleted Scenes and Blooper Stuff
 * Commentary with Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire
 * Behind the Scenes
 * Previews
 * The Incredibles Video Game TV Commercial
 * Chicken Little Teaser Trailer (In Theaters 2005)
 * Seinfeld DVDs Trailer
 * Zoom Trailer (In Theaters 2006)
 * Languages and Subtitles
 * English
 * French
 * Mexican Spanish
 * Brazilian Portuguese
 * German
 * Hungarian
 * Italian
 * Czech
 * Slovak
 * Polish
 * Croatian
 * Romanian

Previews

 * Cars Teaser Trailer (In Theaters 2006)
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Teaser Trailer (In Theaters 2006)
 * Burger King TV Commercial (Play the Spidey Sense Game) (VHS)
 * Burger King TV Commercial (Play the Spidey Sense Game: Plasma TV) (DVD)
 * Dr. Pepper Commercial (ft. Spider-Man)
 * Spider-Man 2: The Game TV Commercial
 * Spider-Man 2 Motion Picture Soundtrack TV Commercial

Quotes

 * Do I seriously have to see the quotes page again? I just wanted to see here: "Quotes".