This is a grittier webslinger saga, led by a Peter Parker with swagger and angst and a tone defined more by emotional resonance than wide-eyed wonder. It still has plenty of fizz.
The Amazing Spider-Man
The untold story begins.
2012 · 2h 16m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Directed by
Marc Webb
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The Amazing Spider-Man
Overview
A teenage Peter Parker grapples with both high school and amazing super-human crises as his alter-ego Spider-Man.
Director and cast
- Marc Webb Director
- Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man / Peter Parker
- Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy
- Rhys Ifans as The Lizard / Dr. Curt Connors
- Denis Leary as Captain Stacy
- Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben
- Sally Field as Aunt May
- Irrfan Khan as Rajit Ratha
- Campbell Scott as Richard Parker
- Embeth Davidtz as Mary Parker
- Chris Zylka as Flash Thompson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
This might be a fun summer blockbuster if only it even remotely needed to exist.
The Amazing Spider-Man is considerably more fun-and, yes, even touching-than so premature a reboot had any right to be.
On the whole, it's passable stuff, a surprise, given how mechanical the masked character seemed.
If you've seen half a dozen superhero films, and the box office results suggest you have, then you've also seen what "The Amazing Spider-Man" has to offer.
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