The FiFi Report 045

Spiderman 2
Now that Spider-Man 2 is about to be the most successful movie ever made I had to see it. (It’s opening in the US pulled $20m more than Shrek 2 - and it took $40.5m in a single day, beating the past record, held by Spider-Man).Ok so it’s got cute Toby and Kirsten and evil, mean and wicked Alfred Molina and serious action and a bit of a love story so what else do you want? A movie that keeps you awake perhaps. Mmm it’s not so much as boring just nothing really happens until Doc Ock, the scary evil creature with metal tentacles comes on the screen and then all hell breaks loose. But then he leaves and Toby gives up being Spiderman and just starts wandering around and around which is what my mind started to do too. Oh dear. Kirsten Dunst looks like she is asleep too and her mind is obviously wandering (she must be thinking about Jake Gyllenhaal) (good reason). In fact it gets so boring that you are begging for some violence to keep you from adding up all the calories in popcorn. But the good news is that the sets are cool, very old fashioned as you would expect from a comic book and there is one funny scene where Spidey loses his grip literally and has to catch a lift down the building instead. He shares it with a gay guy who admires his snazzy red stretchy clinging lycra suit. If only they’d kept that up and got Carson in from Queer eye it could have been funny. And then just when you think it’s the end and it comes to a final conclusion, oh my god it keeps going. This movie just won’t end. It keeps going with an extra 10 minutes of silliness that should have been left on the floor. Which is where I was begging to for the final credits to roll.