10 Highest Ever Grossing Movies Released In May - Ranked From Worst To Best

3. Spider-Man

Domestic Gross: $403,706,375 Before Spider-Man came along, it was thought that comic books had no place in the world of cinema; Sam Raimi proved everyone wrong when he made what is still one of the best and most technically-accomplished comic book movie adaptations of all. Say what you will about Spider-Man all these years later, but this was the picture that - along with Bryan Singer's X-Men - set the standard for pretty much every comic book movie we have today. Considered to be a wondrous technical achievement at the time of release, it's still a blast to watch today. The success of Spider-Man doesn't just stem from its grandiose web-slinging sequences and state of the art special effects, though; the script, both playful and cemented with real emotional cues, gave us characters we could care about in Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane Watson. Willem DaFoe also shines as a genuinely memorable villain in the Green Goblin, and the entire movie moves with such a brisk, confident pace that it's hard to look away once you've fixed your gaze upon it; a superhero classic, for sure.