World On A String; Sam Raimi outdoes himself with a surprisingly rich sequel.(Movie Review)

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Byline: Jeff Giles

"Spider-Man 2" is the most anticipated movie of the summer, so let's dispense with the traditional drumroll: Sam Raimi has made a terrific film. Having said that, let's also admit the obvious. Nothing can really top the contact high of our first encounter with a superhero. Nothing can be cooler than seeing a geek discover that he's suddenly buff and superhuman, as Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) did in the earliest and best sequences of the original, because nothing else taps so directly into our fantasy life. Still, "Spider-Man 2" is a better movie by almost every standard. Raimi...

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