The Amazing SpiderMan is not fondly remembered 10 years after its release, but AndrewGarfield's performance still holds up even if the film doesn't.
Whatever you may have thought of its quality, Spider-Man: No Way Home was undoubtedly the biggest movie of 2021. Just when many assumed that movie theaters had bit the dust, No Way Home came through and smashed all expectations for how it would perform at the box office. One of the reasons the movie did so well is because it united Tom Holland’s Peter Parker with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s versions of the character.
The Amazing Spider-Man couldn’t compete with Marvel The Amazing Spider-Man came out in 2012, the same year The Avengers proved that the MCU project was going to work. Sony was eager to keep pumping out Spider-Mans, so just five years after Maguire’s last spin in the role, they had recast the franchise and were ready to launch it again. Sony may have been ready, but the public was not.
Andrew Garfield is both a great Spider-Man and Peter Parker Out of the rubble of The Amazing Spider-Man, though, one thing was clear: Andrew Garfield, and his co-star and girlfriend at the time Emma Stone, were way outclassing the material they’d been handed. What Maguire’s version of Spider-Man lacked was the clever banter that often defined the character in the comics. Maguire’s Peter was a hopeless romantic and a goober, but his Spider-Man never felt as funny as he could have been.
Garfield’s nervous energy works perfectly with Stone’s droll sarcasm, and there are some genuinely funny moments throughout their time together. Strangely, then, The Amazing Spider-Man is the Spider-Man movie for people who like rom-coms and hate superheroes. It’s a movie brimming with longing and flirting that has basically no ideas outside of pointing the camera toward Stone and Garfield and hoping for the best.
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