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The Spectacular Spider-Man: Volume 2
Score: 93%
Rating: TV-Y7
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home
                  Entertainment

Region: 1
Media: DVD/1
Running Time: Approx. 69 Mins.
Genre: Comic Book/Animated/Action
Audio: English 5.1 (Dolby Digital),
           French (Dolby Surround)


Features:
  • 1.78:1 Animorphic Widescreen
  • Episodes:
    • Market Forces
    • Competition
    • The Invisible Hand

That kookie-lookin' squinting-masked web-head is back, in the continuing adventures that are Marvel's The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series. Volume Two develops the story of everone's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man from the The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard!, although you wouldn't really need to see that to be able to appreciate this one.

Also back is Petey's incredibly bad luck. He's managed to get the attention of a certain crime lord who wants the webslinger out of the picture - for good. To this end, the baddies start making their own super-powered fighters, with a single goal - to squish a certain bug.

In Market Forces, one assassin thug named "Montana" (Jeff Bennett) gets upgraded with a powerful suit to become the Shocker. In Competition, another thug gets changed in an experimental science project gone awry to become the Sandman (John Di Maggio) - a powerful being made of living sand. In The Invisible Hand, a third thug is enchanced with a suit that gives him impervious skin... and he was a behemoth of a man before the suit. He, of course, becomes Rhino (Clancy Brown) - not the smartest in all supervilliany, but definitely one of the hardest to stop.

Will Spider-Man be able to overcome all three of these super-baddies? Of course - and he'll do so making his famous quips. Because he's unstoppable, right? But what about his friends and family? How to juggle the responsibility?

I enjoyed The Spectacular Spider-Man: Volume Two and would recommend it to Spidey fans and prospective Spidey fans, alike.



-Geck0, GameVortex Communications
AKA Robert Perkins
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