At the very least, a movie audience brutalized by dumb, loud and cynical blockbusters can always stand to be reminded of what vibrant, intelligent and sincere popular filmmaking looks like.

''But there was one part,'' he said, ''that I really didn't like.'' That was when Peter Parker threw his costume in the trash and declared that he was ''Spider-Man no more.'' On the way out of the advance screening of ''Spider-Man 2,'' which opens tomorrow nationwide, I asked my son, who is nearly 8 and whom I had brought along for some unscientific audience research, what he thought of the movie.Īs he usually does, he mentioned the scary parts and the cool parts, of which there are many.