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Rating: 6/10 (7 November 2012)

The Amazing Spider-Man
You'd think someone with the abilities of a spider would also gain their fear of feet and rolled-up newspapers.
However, the spider-like teenager in this action movie is unflappable around all splatter methods.
After a genetically altered spider bites him, high school pariah Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) gains the attributes of an arachnid and becomes the costumed Spider-Man.
Elsewhere, a key element to bonding human/animal genes discovered by Peter's dead dad (Campbell Scott) turns Dr. Connors (Rhys Ifans) into a rampaging lizard.
When Connors plans to turn everyone in the city into an amphibian like him, Peter, his girlfriend (Emma Stone), and her father (Denis Leary) scramble to prevent it.
Embodying Parker's awkwardness and Spidey's wiriness, Garfield is perfectly cast. The darker tone, origin reiteration and mundane villain, however, don't stick.
Besides, if producing cobwebs is what it takes to be a super-hero than any grandmother's crotch could be one. (Yellow Light)
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