

He mumbles, he doubles back, he spends too much time reaching for the right thing to say, and when he finally says it, it comes out all wrong. impression–the actor's in a league of his own. Especially by Marvel standards–where every line is a lightning-fast quip, every actor doing their best Robert Downey Jr.

When you look back at the original Spider-Man, it’s actually pretty astonishing to see how much Maguire commits to this idea of Peter Parker being a complete loser. But while I firmly believe “ there’s a hero in all of us,” only one Spider-Man from the past 20 years has contained the necessary combination of sincerity and dopeyness to make me believe that a regular person can fly…or swing. (Though it is, partly.) Between Andrew Garfield’s ill-fated Amazing Spider-Man trilogy, Into the Spider-Verse, Insomniac’s Spider-Man PS4, and all the other big-budget Spider-Man stories in video games and comics right now, the overall tally of web-slingers now mirrors the population of a small island.Īnd sure, there have been several good Spider-Men since 2002 (the gang in Spider-Verse especially). This isn't even just a comment on the rumor that there are, allegedly, three wall-crawling superheroes from Queens in Marvel's latest film. With No Way Home out in theaters later this week (I’ve seen it–my lips are sealed), we’ve officially left the era of Spider-Man and entered the strange new world of Spider-Men.
