The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 283
Fresh: 207 | Rotten: 76
A well-chosen cast and sure-handed direction allow The Amazing Spider-Man to thrill, despite revisiting many of the same plot points from 2002's Spider-Man.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 9
A well-chosen cast and sure-handed direction allow The Amazing Spider-Man to thrill, despite revisiting many of the same plot points from 2002's Spider-Man.
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Movie Info
The Amazing Spider-Man is the story of Peter Parker (Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance - leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt
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Chris Zylka
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C. Thomas Howell
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Jake Keiffer
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Andy Pessoa
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All Critics (283) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (207) | Rotten (76) | DVD (3)
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.
Top CriticThis 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.
At 28, Garfield's slightly older than Maguire was when he played Peter Parker in 2002, but his combination of fresh-faced innocence, nervous agitation and wry humor is immediately appealing.
This reboot works with a freshness and seriousness that was often missing from the 2002 Tobey Maguire film.
The primary effect of this movie to keep conjuring up better movies.
This umphundredth origin story of a nerdy outsider turned unlikely crime fighter is surprisingly enjoyable.
Other than recasting and swapping out love interests for the spindly web-slinger, there's nothing here that wasn't there 10 years ago in the original.
The bigger standouts are scenes of character transformation. these moments alone are worth the price of admission. They are the reason to keep seeing summer blockbusters on a big screen. There are few new ideas, but still plenty of new thrills.
One good film deserves another.
One of the ten best films of 2012.
The recasting works. If Maguire is the Spider-Man of Spidey co-creator Steve Ditko, this is the Spider-Man of artist John Romita: a little slicker, a little more modern. Spider-Man in skinny jeans, if you will.
For a superhero origin film, it's pretty good, but it's hardly amazing.
It's almost impossible to watch the film without thinking of what could have -- and what already has -- been, therefore it's extremely difficult to enjoy on its own merit.
I go to a Spider-Man movie to see the guy duke it out with powerful bad guys. I'm simple that way. I don't need a welter of convolutions.
This edgier Parker feels a more believable alter-ego - closer to the wise-cracking, ass-kicking hero from the comics and early animated TV series.
"The Amazing Spider-Man" isn't as dramatically revisionist as Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins," but it's as good as Raimi's first "Spider-Man" film and darker, while still being tongue-in-cheek. That's a tough tone to master.
A superior film that promises to age better than Sam Raimi's films...
The potential is there for a much bigger, better, Spider-Man movie universe to come, even if this movie doesn't fully realize that potential.
We all know that Spider-Man 3 sucked, but did it have to come to this? A 'one strike and you're out' policy? I would have taken a Raimi/Maguire Spider-Man 4 over this retread any day.
Not quite 'amazing' then, but there will always be a deserving audience for rock-solid superhero movies done with this kind of heart and care.
The Amazing Spider-Man may be a reboot, but it feels entirely fresh thanks to a strong, different interpretation of the Spider-Man mythos and tremendous performances from the excellent ensemble.
After the film's runtime of over two hours, you may be surprised how little of it sticks with you.
"The Amazing Spider-Man" would be amazing if we didn't just see it a few years ago.
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- Store Clerk: Stop that guy!
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Not my policy.
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- The Lizard/Dr. Curt Connors: Poor Peter Parker. No father. No mother. No uncle. You're all alone.
- George Stacy: He's not alone.
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- Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Oh no. Somebody's been a bad lizard.
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- Aunt May: Secrets have a cost. They're not free. Not now, not ever.
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- Dr. Curt Connors: All these souls, lost and alone. I can save them, I can cure them! There's no reason to stop me Peter!
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- Miss Ritter: Peter, don't make promises you can't keep.
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man: But those are the best kind.
Discussion Forum
| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
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| the reaal deal | 5 months ago | 30 |
| Why artificial web-shooters are better. | 2 months ago | 10 |
| It was terrible | 30 days ago | 8 |
| Review by Fr. Chris Carpenter | 5 months ago | 7 |
| Why you should actually watch this movie | 6 months ago | 4 |
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P.S. Because of J.K Simmons' brilliant portrayal as J.Jonah Jameson in the trilogy, if they ever bring that character into this reboot franchise, I feel no one else can really top his performance, so they'd better have Simmons or no one for that role.