“Spider-Man 2.1” Two-Disc DVD Review
And so it begins. With the theatrical release of Spider-Man 3 less than a month away, the marketing campaign is rolling out in full force and the re-cut, re-packaged and re-released Spider-Man 2 gets tossed to us as Spider-Man 2.1. Unlike the Spider-Man re-release for Spider-Man 2’s theatrical release, I’m have to admit that Spider-Man 2.1 might actually have some valid substance worth checking out. Although there is no free ticket to Spider-Man 3, which is a bit of a bummer—you’d think free tickets would sell DVDs faster (only reason I bought the previous three-disc set of Spider-Man). This cut of Spider-Man 2, dubbed Spider-Man 2.1 (oddly enough there was a storyboard in the background of a special feature on this disc which called the new footage part of Spider-Man 2.5…but I guess that was too similar to what Fox did with X-Men), throws in some new footage and recut scenes into what we previously saw on theaters in 2004. In addition to all-new footage previously unseen, we get new