The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film) The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film) The Amazing Spider-Man is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, and sharing the title of the character's longest-running comic book. It is the fourth theatrical "Spider-Man" film produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Entertainment, and a reboot of Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" 2002–2007 trilogy preceding it. The film was directed by Marc Webb. It was written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves, and it stars Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen and Sally Field.
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film) and described it as ""The Notebook" in spandex". Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" felt that the reboot provided better reasons for why Peter Parker adopts his superhero role, even if the origin story didn't need to be told once again. He also remarked that it was "probably the second best" of the four "Spider-Man" films after "Spider-Man 2", explaining that Lizard was lackluster compared to that film's villain, Doctor Octopus, and had the dramatic range of Godzilla. Joe Morgenstern of "The Wall Street Journal", pointed out that "the truly amazing thing is that most of what happens to Peter