'Spiderman-II' opens housefull across
the country
New
Delhi: The much-awaited Hollywood blockbuster "Spiderman-II"
opened full houses across the country on Friday. Story of
an investigative-journalist-turned-superhero, "Spiderman-II"
follows the journey of Peter Parker, a boy-next- door who
gets special powers to fight crime. Starring Tobey Maguire
and Kirsten Dunst, the sequel shows Spiderman taking on
the deranged quantam physicist Doctor Octavius, christened
Doc Ock. The film, which clinched 60 million dollars in
U.S. alone in the first week of its release, seems to be
a superhit with movie-mad India.
"The movie was excellent, effects were brilliant. Right
through the end we were thinking what will happen next.
It's a good movie," said Abhishek Mukherjee, a movie buff.
Rajinder Singh, head of Programming and Operations of Chanakya
cinema, said all shows were running full. "The response
is very good. Today all the shows are full in my hall. I
am sure the next week would also be full. The response is
very good," said Singh. Created by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko,
John Romita and Jack Kirby in the 1960s, the comic strip
featured in Amazing Fantasy magazine was a huge hit among
children. Subsequently, the film version was also out in
the early 70s. Maguire was roped in to play the lead role
of the world's most enterprising arachnid who goes scuttling
onwards, leaping from 80-storey Manhattan towers and battling
New York's giveaway-named villains in 2001 in the first
part of the film which clinched 150 million dollar worldwide.
Maguire said the best part of playing the superhero was
being admired by children. "The cool thing about being Spiderman
for me is that my fans are kids, and because I love kids,
so that is what I love about it...It doesn't get really
tiresome when people come up to me, because generally they
are little people, there are children coming up to me and
it is fun," said Maguire. Reports say Maguire has already
been paid a huge amount for the third part of the film.
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