Every Marvel Comic Book Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

24. The Amazing Spider-Man

Nobody needed a reboot of Spider-Man to come barely a decade after the first origin story, so Sony had a responsibility to do something really special with The Amazing Spider-Man. Even though Spider-Man 3 had been something of a critical bust, but fans would probably still have watched a sequel before a reboot.

(500) Days Of Summer director Marc Webb was handed a small(ish) budget for a comic book movie (at less than $100m) and tasked with telling an already familiar story with a new, slightly more street-smart Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield). He seems to have started with the intention to slow-build the origin, keeping Peter at school and going for a Batman Begins approach to orign stories.

But then, the film-makers appear to have realised they needed to defer to type and pushed the Lizard plot a little too zealously, when the mysteries of Uncle Ben's murder and Richard Parker's research were far more compelling.

It's in no way offensively bad, but it's just too close to what Raimi did to make its good ideas particularly matter.