I have to totally argue with you on that point about Spiderman 2. There's a difference between angst (see: My So Called Life) and stupid whiny pining for no reason at all (see: Saved by the Bell in any Screech pining over Lisa episode). SM2 was much more like a bad episode of Saved by the Bell when it came to the supposed romance between Peter and Mary. It was slipshod and just wrong. Over the course of many comics this might have made sense, but in a movie which has a timeline spanning only a few days (maybe a week at most), it is absolutely silly that Parker keeps crying over his lost Mary, and Mary keeps giving him chances. There is absolutely no reason for her to like him, especially after the screw ups in part 2. But she does, constantly, as if only the fact they're main characters is all she needs to be crazy over him.
The running out on her wedding was the stupidest thing ever. It was only after she found out Peter was Spiderman that her feelings for Peter/both made sense. However, if she was so flushed with romance for her hero, her going along with a wedding until the very last second makes no sense. A normal character would've called off the wedding. A badly-written over-the-top movie character instead leaves her non-loved fiance at the altar. Feh! Just retarded.
And what was the thing with the skinny Russian girl? Sure, seeing that people have sympathy for Peter is one thing, but this oddball micro-romance served no true purpose. Unless of course, she's a villain in part three. (Stick Woman? Bones, Avatar of the Unfed? The Nearly-Invisible Woman? What could such a person be called?)
Doc Ock was outright badly developed. He was two dimensional entirely. Not one second of the film showed him grieving his wife (unless I fell asleep and missed it...sorry, the movie sucked!). One would think one would miss his wife, especially seeing how cozy they were with each other. The arms controlling him through the whole movie made sense, but it totally left out any possibility for him becoming evil under his own choice. His supposed three-dimensional character change is nothing of the sort, as it is merely Otto learning to come to the forefront of his own mind, rather than letting the arms do all the thinking. There was no transformation or development. Otto was a good guy, a bit obsessed with his work. Then the arms take over and drive his obsession into overdrive. Then Otto takes control and all is good again. No mind changes, no inner struggle. Nothing, just a switch of two "beings" in one mind, one a rather good guy (Otto) and one a self-serving machine (the arms).
He was nicely played as a mindless bad-guy, though. For a machine-run automiton, Doc Ock was a MUCH BETTER villain than the goblin from part one.
Overall, the action in the movie was good. The action and special effects made it worth seeing. And, if you've ever wanted to see what a nipple looks like, Kirsten Dunst does her part to help curious folks out there. Then any, I think any movie with her in it does that. She's a hussy, I hear. (burn!*) A decent movie, but if you want story, it is trash. Dude, Where's My Car has better-developed characters.
(* Had to take a shot at Dunst. She said in an interview she thinks Spiderman should die in the next movie. Penny Arcade already bashed her)