Run, Do Not Crawl  Spider-Man swings in this touching,
thrilling, superior sequel  All you need to know about Spider-
Man 2is revealed in the opening credits, in which comic-book
artist Alex Ross recaps the 2002 original in lovingly, lavishly
painted panels. Spidey and Mary Jane Watson are once again
entangled in that now-iconic upside-down kiss; nutty Norman
Osborn, out of Green Goblin garb, gnashes his teeth; a
dumbstruck Harry Osborn discovers the web-slinger standing over
his old man's corpse. The comics have become the movies have
become the comics again, without one medium kowtowing to the
other. The tiny panels don't lose their shape when stretched to
fill the expansive canvas of the cineplex, and the movie doesn't
condescend to the source material by treating it as something
dinky or disposable. Spider-Man 2exists for the grown-up
children of 1960s and '70s comics and the kids who know of the
wall-crawler only through the movies; it's a playground for
those who like a little humor and a lot of heartach