Every Spider-Man Movie Ranked Worst To Best
Is Far From Home 16th time's the charm?
There are more Spider-Man movies than you might think. Sure, you'll remember Sam Raimi's epic trilogy and you might even have retained some of the Amazing Spider-Man movies in the background of the new MCU take on the web-slinging hero, but there's more than just those. And there's also the small matter of a certain black-clad symbiote to throw in too.
The latest step in that particular twisting tale has seen Mysterio make his debut in the Spider-Cine-Verse and Tom Holland's Spider-Man faced with the prospect of balancing his own teenage romantic instincts with the legacy of Tony Stark and another huge and immediate threat to the planet. It's a great new chapter, but how does it compare to the other movies made by Sam Raimi and the Russos among others?
In fact, how do all SIXTEEN Spider-Man movies rank now that Far From Home is out? First off, a selection of oddities you may never have even heard of...
16. Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (1981)
Just as Batman and Superman started on the big-screen well before their "blockbuster" debuts, we got several Spider-Man movies and TV shows, including The Amazing Spider-Man show that ran from 1977 to 1979. It was not good.
It's dated, kitsch and monstrous and it's got little value beyond being a strange curio that is very, very silly and very, very badly made. Which also goes for its movie The Dragon's Challenge - actually the feature-length Season Two finale - which sees Peter Parker protecting a Chinese businessman. Not exactly real superheroism and it's weirdly low on action.
15. Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978)
The 1970s Amazing Spider-Man TV show actually inspired three movies and the second was composed of two-part episode "Deadly Dust" and stars the same surprisingly ancient Peter Parker as played by Nicholas Hammond.
The story here sees one of Parker's tutors accidentally give some students the ingredients to make a nuclear bomb and Peter Parker himself ends up under suspicion while villain Mr White appears to try and steal the bomb to blow up the World Trade Centre.
Again, it's pretty bad and there's no bigger crime than the strange decision to mostly just leave Hammon out of his Spider-Man costume completely, which inevitably cuts down the action again.