

Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), after Connors accidentally turns himself into a rampaging lizard. Following an intense personal loss, Peter decides to become a vigilante, only to find himself facing off against his former mentor, Dr. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: The Amazing Spider-Man follows a teenage boy named Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) who suddenly gets superhuman powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider. The Amazing Spider-Man is due for a re-evaluation, and it’s arrived on Netflix for a proper second chance.

It’s thrilling and goofy in the ways all Spider-Man movies should be, and it centers on a lead performance that audiences are only just now starting to appreciate. The film itself is actually a lot of fun. But it’s unfair to define The Amazing Spider-Man solely by how it failed to launch a franchise. Meanwhile, in 2012, Sony and Fox were both making their own Marvel movies in an attempt to build out their own interconnected superhero franchises.Įvery studio wanted its own MCU, and for Sony, those ambitions were first manifested in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man, the film that tried but failed to spawn the successful Spider-Man universe that Sony is still trying to build. Thanks to the release of The Avengers, the MCU was starting to become a Hollywood behemoth, but it hadn’t yet reached the heights it would throughout the late 2010s. Ten years ago, the superhero genre was in a very different state.
