When bitten by a genetically modified spider, Peter Parker, a nerdy, shy, and awkward high school student gains spider-like abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family.
5 February 1940, Oakley, Ohio, USA
21 October 1971, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA
23 May 1978, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
19 July 1968, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
9 January 1955, Detroit, Michigan, USA
10 August 1964, South Korea
25 May 1970, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
30 April 1982, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
19 May 1959, New York, New York, USA
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
13 June 1958, Maracaibo, Venezuela
July 07, 2015
This is about as good as a comic-to-film adaptation gets.
August 03, 2013
At its best, Spider-Man takes the adolescent yearning at the heart of most superhero sagas and gives it a lovely swing.
April 12, 2013
Coarse mayhem notwithstanding, Spider-Man will probably provoke a pandemic of arachnophilia.
July 07, 2015
Spider-Man is an almost-perfect extension of the experience of reading comic-book adventures.
April 12, 2013
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.
July 07, 2015
Spider-Man is the most modest would-be summer blockbuster in a long while, an adaptation of the 40-year-old Marvel comic book that's surprisingly heartfelt, but also a bit pokey and underwhelming.
July 07, 2015
To me the only marvel about this Marvel Comics cinema hero is that Americans should be going to see him in such large numbers.
July 07, 2015
Even with its flaws it's a satisfying adventure that manages to appeal to the head and the heart even when it's taking your breath away.
July 07, 2015
Sam Raimi's fine slapstick skills shine to their best advantage.
July 07, 2015
In the face of almighty expectations, director Sam Raimi delivers an efficient, entertaining film which promises to crush box office records.
August 03, 2013
With earnest, unpretentious delivery, Maguire is an eminently likable hero audiences will root for from his earliest moments as the class wimp.
July 14, 2010
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.
