Corrected entry: After the German girl and Peter eat chocolate cake, and she gives him a message, when she says, "It's from your aunt," she has almost no accent in her voice.
Corrected entry: When Peter is delivering the pizzas to the receptionist, she can be seen sipping her drink through her straw. The straw can be seen in the container, but not in the liquid as she sips.
Correction: She might just be trying to push the straw up and down the bottle to find the liquid because we eventually do hear the slurping sound from water going through the straw.
Corrected entry: When the train scene first starts, it shows Doc Ock and Spider-Man landing on the front of the train and rolling back denting the roof of the train. But when Doc Ock goes to the front of the train later to rip out the speed control, there are no dents on the roof.
Correction: They don't land on the front, which is why Doc Ock has to walk up to the front.
Corrected entry: When Peter is on his way to see MJ in the beginning the police are chasing two bad guys. When the bad guys shoot at the police car, it swerves. The following shot we see from the perspective of the other police car it swerves again. (00:23:55)
Correction: It's not highly unusual for a car to swerve more than once during a car chase.
Corrected entry: When Aunt May and Peter are talking, while she is packing up her things in her backyard, the cream-colored Oldsmobile can be seen in the garage. This is the same car that was stolen and totalled by the thief that killed Uncle Ben in Spider-Man. Even if the smashed up hulk of the car was retained by May Parker, her financial situation would never have allowed her to get it restored/rebuilt to the condition it is in. And no insurance company would have come close to repairing a car of that vintage. The car should not be there.
Correction: It is impossible to claim that the car "should not be there" when there are a variety of suitable explanations available. She could have indeed paid for the repairs herself for sentimental reasons, perhaps she used insurance money from Uncle Ben's death, or she sold something, or she did it with Peter's assistance, or the car insurance company may very well have paid for repairs. It is unnecessary to figure out how the car was repaired, it simply was. Also, as stated in trivia, the Oldsmobile is Sam Ramie's trademark.
Corrected entry: When getting dressed to go to M.J.'s play, there is a cute scene showing Peter staring into his closet, looking back and forth in the closet, trying to decide what to wear. A reverse angle of the closet's contents shows that there are only two items hanging there, the 'Spidey' suit, and Peter's one-and-only dress shirt/coat/ tie. The gag, of course, is that he is trying to decide what to wear, when it is obvious that he is going as a 'civilian', so he should wear the street clothes. However, after the play is over, Peter (who logically chose to wear his street clothes) is shown running down an alley, and he does the 'opening the shirt to reveal the 'Spidey' suit underneath' maneuver, and swings away on a web. Well.if he wears the costume underneath his street clothes most of the time, why was he looking in the closet trying to decide between the two of them when he knew he was going to be wearing them both?
Correction: The gag isn't "deciding what to wear", it's supposed to show how he's struggling to decide whether he should wear his Spidey suit underneath or not, as he's still wondering whether he should give up being Spiderman or not. It's a tougher decision than it seems because if he DOES wear the Spiderman suit underneath his normal suit, then he's under pressure to go off and be Spiderman if he sees anything happening on his way there (and thus disappointing MJ) but if he doesn't wear it, there's no way he can go off to save people anyway, so he'd make MJ happy, but potentially cause other people to die (as he did with his uncle). It's a lot deeper than a simple "he can't decide what to wear" gag.
Corrected entry: After Peter decides not to be Spider-man anymore, he's walking as a normal person, trips and falls. There are trees and a park bench in the surrounding area where he falls. Yet when he gets up, he is on a sidewalk in front of a building with no trees or park bench anywhere.
Correction: Notice that there are several shots of him falling. This is to indicate that he has tripped several times in several locations; he is in a completely different area when he is finally seen standing.
Corrected entry: The first movie established that Peter was mutated with spider DNA, that the changes in him were at a molecular level. Considering this, even a high level of stress should not be able to reverse a change that was imprinted in is own DNA marking. We're not talking insomnia or losing balance here (which *can* be caused by stress): saying that he lost his eyesight, his little grabbing hairs and his web-making capacities is like saying that because I'm stressed, my eyes will change colors, my arms will fall off or I'll stop salivating. All at once. Just not possible.
Correction: As the doctor explains, Peter's problem is psychological. Think of it like a major league baseball player who's so stressed out he loses his confidence in himself and can't home runs anymore. His body hasn't changed, but it can't perform for him as well b/c of mental problems.
Corrected entry: When Spidey and Doc Ock are fighting on the side of the train, another one is coming towards them. Spiderman has his back towards the oncoming train, yet in the next shot he leans flush against the train and is now facing the oncoming one.
Correction: Spider-Man turns around to look at the on-coming train and quickly reacts. He is therefore now positioned to lean backwards against the windows facing the direction of the on-coming train.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Harry is introducing Peter to Dr. Otto, he says 'Noble Prize for sure' and a few seconds later ' See you in Sweden'. The noble prizes are given out in Oslo, Norway.
Correction: Harry's a businessman, not a geography teacher, so it's not unlikely that he'd get this sort of thing wrong. But Harry is in fact correct. The Nobel prizes are handed out in Sweden, the exception being the Peace Prize, which is the only one handed out in Norway. And, for the record, it's spelt Nobel.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Mary Jane is acting in the theater, she notices an empty seat, and automatically knows that Peter did not come to see her. She was surprised when Peter told her he was coming to the play, so he's not using a ticket/seat she's got for him - she would have had to look at every seat and audience member to know for sure.
Correction: Mary Jane got Peter a complimentary ticket and could have easily checked with the box office before the performance to find out where he was supposed to be sitting.
Corrected entry: When Doc Ock's mechanical arms attack the doctors and one of them grabs a nurse's ankle and drag her away, her fingernails scratch the floor. Nails only have a hardness of 2 and the tiles on the floor would have a hardness of at least 6, so the nails wouldn't leave any marks.
Correction: Assuming that her nails are natural. Artificial nails can rate up to 4.4 on the Mohs scale - tiles (especially old ones) rarely rate higher than 3.2.
Corrected entry: Doc Ock's robotic arms are obviously very powerful, being able to lift people, cars, etc. Yet they have no visible power source, nor do they ever run out of energy. In reality, he would need to either wear enormous battery packs or have a really long extension cord. This would also provide him an easy way to escape from their influence - simply stop recharging them.
Correction: Doc Ock is a brilliant scientist. It's not too much of a streach that he found some sort of high-power energy source that he built into the arms. Also, after connected they may run off of his own body's power.
Corrected entry: In the scene at the end where Spider-Man and Mary Jane are in the big web, check out the bit of web visible between their faces in shots of both of them - it's clear to see the web is just black wire with a thin bit of translucent plastic loosely wrapped around it - shatters the image somewhat.
Correction: Well, what else is a giant strand of spider-web supposed to look like? It has always had that look in both movies, and it looks like that in the comic books.
Corrected entry: When Peter and MJ stand up right after the car has been thrown at them, the restaurant behind them is totally empty, even though when they were talking there were people in it. After a few shots, the restaurant is full of people again.
Correction: Well, the other people obviously ducked and ran out of the way to hide. You can see one or two people doing this as the car crashes.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Spider-Man is fighting Doc Ock, the train they are riding on has no letter or number on the front. ALL of the MTA NYC Transit Subways have letters or numbers on them, indicating where they are going (ie. F, G, 1, 2, etc.). The train Spider-Man and Doc Ock were fighting on did not.
Correction: The entire movie is a stylized, "Picturesque" version of New York, not meant to be exactly like the real city. So details like that are technically void.
Corrected entry: In the train fight, the camera goes down along the tracks all the way to the large bumper at the end. During this time, you can see that the train should go through at least 1 station, yet, when Doc Ock and Spider-Man are fighting, there are no stations to go through.
Correction: While Spidey's Spider Sense is working, the train could have passed the station, as we are moving faster than the train. When the "sense camera" reaches the bumpers, the train could have passed the station.
Corrected entry: Why would Octavius install ropes inside his tentacles? He designed them to control fusion reactions, not kidnap people. He didn't know that he was going to go crazy, so there would be no reason to have them.
Correction: After going crazy, he went and robbed many banks to get the money to build his new machine. That's a lot of screen time we didn't see, so he could have easily used that money to improve his tentacles as well.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Peter is in the burning building, and is trying to get out, three big chunks of the floor collapse. Before they do, you can see lines pre-cut in the floor so it breaks the way it does.
Correction: This is far too obvious to be a mistake. Likely, the fire weakened the structure, and it was slowly breaking apart, showing the three lines in the floor.
Corrected entry: In one shot, the car was so low that it barely missed Peter's head. Then in the following shot, it flew over the counter top of the deli and came to a stop against the wall. Had the car been as low as it was in the first shot, it would have crashed into the counter instead.
Correction: It crashes through the counter and hits the wall behind it.
Correction: Two things, first the girl is Russian, not German, and second, she never talks with an accent prior to this moment, so she may very well just not have one.