Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...
Direction
Raimi's horror roots make Doc Ock genuinely menacing.
Acting
Molina's tragic villainy; Maguire's exhausted everyman.
Practical Effects
Those mechanical arms—real puppetry, still unmatched.
Director
Sam Raimi
Tobey Maguire
Spider-Man / Peter Parker
Kirsten Dunst
Mary Jane Watson
James Franco
Harry Osborn
Alfred Molina
Doc Ock / Otto Octavius
Rosemary Harris
May Parker
J.K. Simmons
J. Jonah Jameson
Donna Murphy
Rosalie Octavius
Daniel Gillies
John Jameson
Dylan Baker
Dr. Curt Connors
Bill Nunn
Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson
Vanessa Ferlito
Louise
Aasif Mandvi
Mr. Aziz
Willem Dafoe
Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Cliff Robertson
Ben Parker
Ted Raimi
Hoffman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The bank vault heist scene uses a real 4,000-pound vault door that Molina practiced with extensively.
Raimi modeled Doc Ock's tragedy on Frankenstein and Phantom of the Opera, making him cinema's most empathetic Spidey villain until Spider-Verse.
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