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This is now even thornier since Peter promised her dead dad (a glowering Denis Leary shows up as a ghostly rebuke) he’d keep her safe. The strength of this series’ conception of Gwen, as opposed to the dangle-and-wait-for-rescue women of previous Spider-Movies, is that she insists on being an active participant in the heroics.

Unhindered by any need to rehash bitten-by-a-radioactive-spider or guilt-over-the-dead-uncle issues, this allows the brush-haired Garfield and sweetly determined Stone to play out a far more nuanced and complex relationship. Ever since Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created the property, Spider-Man has straddled genres - sci-fi superheroics and grounded teen soap opera - and Webb’s cleverest move was to play the angst lightly and let the kids have fun. Marc Webb confounded them by delivering a different take on the comic books with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone as an engaging, funny couple. Cynics suspected The Amazing Spider-Man hastily rebooted a franchise (which had stalled thanks to the compromised Spider-Man 3) mostly to retain the lucrative rights to a property which would otherwise revert to Marvel.

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