The Sensational Spider-Man (2012)

The Sensational Spider-Man is the first in a trilogy of remakes based on the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films, directed by Josh Trank.

Plot
Peter Parker is a lowly high-school nerd who lives with his aunt and uncle in New York. His only friend is Harry Osborn; however, Harry is the son of billionaire industrialist Norman Osborn. During a school field trip to a genetics lab, Peter barely manages to speak to his crush, Mary Jane Watson. However, he is distracted when a genetically altered spider escapes confinement and bites his hand.

Peter returns home and begins to get strange feelings as the spider's DNA combines with his own. He passes out and wakes to find that he has gained spider-like abilities. He quickly slaps together a costume, planning to enter a nearby wrestling tournament and use his abilities to win and buy an expensive car to impress MJ. However, following a wrestling match, he gets into an argument with the owner and is not paid. He then spots the man chasing after a burgular who has robbed him; Peter declines the offer to catch the criminal, instead actually helping him to flee, telling the victim that catching criminals is not his problem.

Peter is shocked when he returns home to find the police outside of his house and Aunt May crying. A police officer explains to him that Uncle Ben was fatally shot by a home intruder. The police reveal that the man had a tattoo on his wrist; Peter remembers the same tattoo from the thief he had prievously let escape, and to his horror, he realises that he let his uncle's killer get away.

The shock entices Peter to don a newly redesigned version of his wrestling costume to become the vigilante 'Spider-Man.' He sets out on a mission to hunt down his uncle's killer, attacking petty criminals and checking their wrists for tattoos. Peter eventually spots the same burglar engaged in a car chase with the police. The thug evades the police, but Peter follows him to a warehouse. He confronts the man and disarms him; the terrified man begins to suffer from a heart attack. Not wishing to sink to his level and kill a man, Peter reaches to help him, but the man reacts fearfully and falls through a window. Peter decides to continue his vendetta against crime as Spider-Man.

Meanwhile, Harry's father Norman is having trouble in business and is struggling to save OsCorp's military contract. He attempts to develop a chemical which will enhance strength, stamina and speed. The chemical is untested however and, desperate, Norman decides to use it on himself. It works, for the most part, but begins to drive him insane, to point of murder. With his company's future teetering on the edge, he decides to take revenge by systematically killing several scientists, rival businessmen and military officials. Stealing an experimental exosuit and glider, he creates the image of the Green Goblin for himself.

Norman and Harry are invited to the Parker's Thanksgiving dinner, during which Norman secretly figures out that Peter is Spider-Man, and having come face to face before, plots revenge. He first attacks Aunt May, putting her in the hospital. Harry, meanwhile, figures out that Peter loves MJ, and is devastated. While venting to Norman, he accidentally reveals the Goblin's next target.

The Goblin kidnaps MJ and holds her hostage alongisde a tramcar on the Queensboro Bridge. He dangles both of them over the edge and tries to force Peter to choose who to save when he drops them. Peter manages to save both and a brutal fight ensues between the two bitter enemies on the framework. The Goblin mocks Peter as to how he plans to slowly kill MJ, enraging Peter and enabling him to defeat the Goblin, beating him down.

Before Peter can snap and kill the Goblin, he reveals himself as Norman Osborn. He tries to explain that he had no control over what the Goblin did, including committing the murders and trying to kill MJ and Aunt May. Norman tells Peter that he considers Peter the son he never had, a better son than Harry is. However, Peter tells him that he already has a father; Ben Parker. Norman tries to use his glider to run down Peter, flying at full speed, but Peter dodges it and it hits Norman, sending him into the water below. Peter swings down and pulls him out and they climb back onto the bridge, where Norman begs Peter not to tell Harry before dying of his wounds.

Peter takes Norman's body back to his home and hides his Goblin equipment in a secret passage way, but is caught standing over Norman's body by Harry, who comes to the wrong conclusion that Spider-Man murdered his father.

At Norman's funeral, Harry tells Peter that he will have his revenge of Spider-Man. MJ tries to express her feelings for Peter, but knowing that his enemies will always come after the ones he loves, and turns her down. The film closes on Spider-Man swinging through Manhattan.

==Cast==



Josh Hutcherson - Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Amanda Righetti - Mary Jane Watson

Jim Parsons - Harry Osborn

Michael Douglas - Uncle Ben Parker

Hugo Weaving - Norman Osborn

Hugh Laurie - J. Jonah Jameson