Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 2 is the sequel to the popular 2002 film Spider-Man and was released in the U.S. on June 30, 2004.

Plot summary

It has been two years since the end of the last film, and Peter Parker is finding a double life very difficult. He loses a job, is having trouble with his estranged friend, Harry Osborn, who still thinks that his father's death was the fault of Spider-Man (Harry doesn't know that Norman actually killed himself), struggles with his studies and school work, and finds that he is losing his powers. Moreover, he has learned that his potential girlfriend, M.J., has acquired a new boyfriend, John Jameson, the son of Peter's employer, J. Jonah Jameson. M.J. turns increasingly hostile to Peter after he fails to keep a promise to see a play in which she is the female lead.

Related Topics:
Loses a job - Harry Osborn - John Jameson - J. Jonah Jameson

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Peter's idol, a brilliant, gentle scientist named Otto Octavius, turns into a cybernetically-controlled lunatic after a fusion accident. "Doc Ock", as he is now called, desperately wants to rebuild his experiment. Peter's morale hits a nadir when Harry lashes at him in a drunken rage, MJ and Jameson Jr. announce their engagement and he loses his powers due to a form of burn-out syndrome. Peter temporarily gives up Spider-Man.

Related Topics:
Otto Octavius - Engagement - Burn-out syndrome

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As Peter has much more spare time now, his relationships improve. Peter and MJ connect once again, but as MJ is engaged, it seems too late. In the meanwhile, Doc Ock and Harry Osborn make a deal: Harry supplies him with tritium for his experiment, and the Doctor agrees to capture Spider-Man for him.

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MJ remembers the upside-down kiss she had with her saviour Spider-Man in the first film, and that Peter's kiss suspiciously felt the same. She arranges a meeting with Peter, and although she is very fond of him, Peter's secretive behaviour estranges and intrigues her. But before things can go on, they are attacked by Doc Ock. Because he knows that Peter and Spider-Man are close (although he does not know that they are the same person), he attacks Peter. Doc Ock threatens Peter and tells him to tell Spider-Man to fight him, unless he wants MJ killed. Then he abducts her.

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This shock brings back Peter's powers. He has a great fight with Doc Ock, and the crazy scientist forces Peter to rescue a rogue train. With an utmost effort, Peter stops the train before it falls from an unfinished bridge, is vanquished easily and brought before Harry. Harry unmasks him and is shellshocked that Spider-Man is Peter Parker. Peter implores him to tell him where Doc Ock went, or MJ will be killed.

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Peter finds Doc Ock in an abandoned warehouse, where he holds MJ hostage and has just launched his doomsday experiment, which is clearly going rogue. They fight a second time, and in the end, Doc Ock regains his sanity. He ends his doomsday experiment by drowning it, sacrificing his life and dying a hero. MJ finds out that Peter is Spider-Man, and is stunned and full of joy at the same time. But Peter tells her they can never be together, as he will always have deadly enemies, and MJ should spare herself the grief of coming too close to him.

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In the end, MJ runs away from her marriage with John Jameson. She gatecrashes Peter's apartment, telling him that she has decided to live with him - despite the risks - because a full dangerous life is better than a half, carefree life. She - almost forcefully - persuades Peter to finally be her boyfriend.

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