Every Spider-Man Movie Ranked Worst To Best

7. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

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A fresh lick of paint and a rebrand for Sony's Spider-Man IP here, with Andrew Garfield taking over the famed red and blue duds for The Amazing Spider-Man.

As both Peter Parker and Spidey, Garfield showed plenty of promise. His comedic chops were well used, he brought a sincerity and warmth to the role, and his chemistry with Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy was certainly there for all to see.

What let the first of Marc Webb's ASM pictures down, though, was a lame villain.

Your writer here is forever a fan of fellow Welshman Rhys Ifans, but his Curt Connors/Lizard was so dull. That's not Ifans' fault, mind, for so much of what was wrong with Lizard came down to his physical performance and the CGI utilised to create the character.

The design of the Lizard was abysmal, and his story of wanting to create an army of creatures in his own image felt bland and formulaic. Given how this first outing for Garfield's Wall-crawler was always going to be compared to the first Spider-Man film of Tobey Maguire's run, The Amazing Spider-Man was solid if not spectacular.

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