The latter includes his unfulfilled feelings toward his former next-door neighbor, Mary Jane Watson (KIRSTEN DUNST), who's now a stage actress. Then there's his best friend, Harry Osborn (JAMES FRANCO), who hates his alter-ego, Spider-Man, whom he blames for his father's death. With Daily Bugle editor J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. SIMMONS) putting more pressure on Peter to deliver new photos of the web-slinger, Peter faces an identity crisis as his dual-end candle burning increasingly takes a toll on him and his personal and academic life.
It's with the latter that he meets Otto Octavius (ALFRED MOLINA), a scientist employed by Harry's inherited company who's trying to create a fusion energy source. During a demo of his latest experiment -- where he uses robotic, tentacle arms that are temporarily attached to his spine -- things go terribly awry. Those sentient tentacles not only become fused to Otto's body, but also take over his mind, creating a villain known as Dr. Octopus or "Doc Ock."
As Peter tries to work his way through his identity crisis and feelings toward Mary Jane, he must contend with Harry wanting Spider-Man dead and Doc Ock's quest to resume his fusion experiments that soon threaten everyone in the city.
Violence consists of all sorts of brutal and/or harsh, comic book style action where characters punch, kick and/or smash around others or objects, often in a rather severe fashion and much of the time into walls and other hard surfaces (some falls also land on the latter). Some fighting briefly has bloody results (but not too much at that).
A minor character is killed by flying shards of glass (no blood), another appears to have drowned (although that's probably not the case), and various characters shoot at others. Those scenes and others may be unsettling, tense or suspenseful to some viewers, but mainly just very young ones.
Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, a few smoke, some drink (one appears to be intoxicated) and some tense family material involves dealing with the aftermath of deaths that occurred in the first film.
Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content.
For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, a few scenes feature such flashes (but never to a full-strobe effect).
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(2004) (Tobey Maguire, Alfred Molina) (PG-13)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
Moderate
Minor
Heavy
*Moderate
Heavy
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Mild
Minor
Heavy
None
Mild
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Mild
Mild
Moderate
Moderate
Extreme
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Reviewed June 24, 2004 / Posted June 30, 2004
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