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Connors overdoses on lizard juice and expands into the hyper-violent Lizard, who goes on rampages and knocks cars off bridges with its tail.

He has lost his right arm and obsesses about regenerating it by injecting himself with the genes of lizards, which can replace lost limbs (almost instantly, it appears). The screwball scientist is his dad's old partner, Dr. Finding his dad's old-fashioned briefcase in the attic, Peter comes across brilliant scientific work about cross-species interbreeding, and that leads him to the Manhattan skyscraper of Oscorp, your typical comic-book mega-corporation with a madman at the top.

We learn how Peter lost his parents and came into the care of Aunt May ( Sally Field) and Uncle Ben ( Martin Sheen, replacing the late Cliff Robertson). The origin story takes at least an hour to tell, and I enjoyed that, because it seems to me that CGI superhero films often go on autopilot during their big action climaxes. This is the first Spider-Man who can leap off a skyscraper and make us wonder if he has a plan in mind. He's not above showoff stunts in high school and takes chances with his newfound superpowers. That's partly because Garfield's take on Spidey is sometimes a few strands short of a web. Gwen, his classmate and girlfriend ( Emma Stone, " The Help"), is a well-grounded female who needs some persuasion to bond with Peter. His key quality is likability, which he shares with his predecessor, Tobey Maguire. Parker is played by Andrew Garfield (" Never Let Me Go"), who at 28 looks too old to be in high school, but then movie teenagers usually do.