The Amazing Spider-Man is a 2012 film directed by Marc Webb, based on the Spider-Man comic series. It is a reboot from the previous Spider-Man movies.
The film starts of with a young Peter Parker who discovers his father Richard’s study has been broken into. Gathering up various documents, Peter’s parents take him to the home of his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, then mysteriously depart from him. Years later, Peter attends High School, where he is bullied by Flash Thompson and has caught the eye of his eventual love interest, Gwen Stacy. Peter finds his father’s papers and learns he worked with a scientist named Dr. Curt Connors at Oscorp. Sneaking into Oscorp, Peter finds out a “biocable” is being created from genetically modified spiders, one of which bites him, turning him into Spider-Man. On the subway ride home, he discovers that he has developed spider-like abilities.
After reading Richard’s papers, Peter visits Connors, and gives Connor his father’s “decay rate algorithm”, the missing piece in Connors’ experiments on regenerating limbs. Connors is being pressured by his superior, Dr. Ratha, to devise a cure for Norman Osborn. Peter gets into trouble after humiliating Flash in a fight. As a result, his uncle is forced to change work shifts in order to meet with the principal; Peter neglects his responsibility, instead helping Dr. Connors regenerate the limb of a mouse. When Peter returns home he gets into an argument with his uncle and storms out. Uncle Ben attempts to stop a thief and is shot dead. The thief escapes as Peter finds his uncle already dead on the street.
Peter uses his new abilities to hunt criminals matching the killer’s description. After a fall lands him inside an abandoned gym, a luchador-wrestling poster inspires him to create his whole Spider-Man attire, including a mechanical device on his wrists to shoot a biocable “web”. Peter accepts a dinner invitation from Gwen, where he meets her father. After dinner, Peter shows Gwen his abilities and they kiss.
Ratha demands Connors begin human trials immediately if Osborn is to survive. Connors refuses to rush the drug-testing procedure. Ratha fires Connors and decides to test Connors’ serum at a Veterans Administration hospital. In an act of desperation, Connors tries the formula on himself. After passing out, he awakens to find his missing arm has regenerated. Connors, whose skin is now growing scaly and green, goes to intercept him. By the time he gets to the Williamsburg Bridge Connors has become a hybrid of lizard and man, tossing cars, including Ratha’s, over the side of the bridge. Peter, now calling himself Spider-Man, saves each fallen car with his web-lines.
Spider-Man suspects Connors is the Lizard, and confronts him in the sewers. The Lizard learns Spider-Man’s real identity and attacks Peter at school. In response, the police start a manhunt for both Spider-Man and the Lizard. Captain Stacy discovers that he is really Peter. The Lizard plans to make all humans lizard-like by releasing a chemical cloud. Spider-Man eventually disperses an antidote cloud instead, restoring Connors and earlier victims to normal. The dying Stacy makes Peter promise to keep Gwen safe by staying away from her. Peter initially does so, but later suggests to Gwen that he may see her after all.
In a post-credits scene, Connors, in a prison cell, speaks with a man in the shadows who asks if Peter knows the truth about his father. Connors replies, “No”, and demands Peter be left alone before the man disappears.
[easyreview title=”The Amazing Spider-Man Rating” cat1title=”Cast” cat1detail=”The Amazing Spider-Man is the reboot to the whole movie universe and franchise. So you needed to have a powerful new cast. Andrew Garfield worked well as Peter Parker, Emma Stone worked well as Gwen Stacy, Martin Sheen was great as Uncle Ben, too. Overall the cast was perfect.” cat1rating=”4.5″ cat2title=”The Topic” cat2detail=”Just as with any Superhero movie, you have to have a bad guy that wants to take over the city and fuck shit up for everyone else. Which is exactly what happened here with The Lizard. The themes and events in the movie were great too. Which I really enjoyed.” cat2rating=”4.0″ cat3title=”Cameos” cat3detail=”I started doing this category because I really do like seeing cameos in movies. But the only noticeable one was from Stan Lee, of course.” cat3rating=”3.0″ summary=”I seem to be the only one that says this, but I really enjoyed The Amazing Spider-Man, way more than I did the Dark Knight Rises.”]