Fresh
With earnest, unpretentious delivery, Maguire is an eminently likable hero audiences will root for from his earliest moments as the class wimp.
David Germain, Associated Press
Spider-Man
Go for the ultimate spin.
2002 · 2h 1m · PG-13
Action, Science Fiction
Directed by
Sam Raimi
Overview
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
Director and cast
- Sam Raimi Director
- Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man / Peter Parker
- Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
- Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson
- James Franco as Harry Osborn
- Cliff Robertson as Ben Parker
- Rosemary Harris as May Parker
- J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
- Joe Manganiello as Flash Thompson
- Gerry Becker as Maximilian Fargas
- Bill Nunn as Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
At its best, Spider-Man takes the adolescent yearning at the heart of most superhero sagas and gives it a lovely swing.
David Edelstein, Slate
Fresh
Coarse mayhem notwithstanding, Spider-Man will probably provoke a pandemic of arachnophilia.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Fresh
The perils and advantages of being bitten by a genetically modified spider are made abundantly clear in Sam Raimi's enjoyable, if broken-backed, exercise in high-cost pulp.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Rotten
In emphasizing angst over energy, the movie is much like its hero -- not the dashing crime fighter in a red-and-black bodysuit but the introspective nerd who both endears and exasperates.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
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