This time it opens with the child Peter and his parents, Richard and Mary (Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz), who, after a break-in at their house endangering Dad’s scientific secrets, rush over to Richard’s brother and sister-in-law, a k a Uncle Ben and Aunt May (Martin Sheen and Sally Field, a cozy fit).

Like the 2002 “Spider-Man,” the first of three movies directed by Sam Raimi, “The Amazing Spider-Man” revisits Peter Parker’s origin story. The latest post-atomic-age Spider-Man has been updated with a skateboard and a hoodie, but it’s unclear whom he speaks to (beyond Sony’s shareholders), and for what reason. If the readers who embraced the square-looking Peter Parker didn’t mind, maybe it was partly because this awkward outsider spoke to his times, having been bitten by a radioactive spider the same year the United States conducted 36 atmospheric nuclear weapon tests over the Pacific. Stone hits the big 24 in November), but then so did the characters introduced by the pen-and-ink legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in 1962. Webb’s Spider-Man movie works only because he keeps the whole package, at least until the requisite final blowout, tethered to his two appealing leads. Like his debut feature, the bittersweet romance “ (500) Days of Summer,” Mr. Garfield’s likability - keep this resuscitated studio product from fully capsizing. The lovely young miss, meanwhile, is Emma Stone, whose pillowy lips serve as flotation devices that - along with her natural appeal and Mr. Now, in “The Amazing Spider-Man,” you’re played by the cute boy-man Andrew Garfield, whose elongated limbs and pencil neck go a ways to make him look like the geek next door.

Oh, Spidey, has it really been five long years since we saw you in “ Spider-Man 3,” where you were plagued by a doppelgänger, a hectic plot and franchise exhaustion? Way back then you were played by the cute boy-man Tobey Maguire, and the girl with the fatal-beauty smile was given sweet life by Kirsten Dunst.

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