The Amazing Spider-Man: Five Funniest Scenes [Spoilers]

While it was far from a perfect movie, The Amazing Spider-Man was a lot of fun. It’s probably what the movie did best–fun–and that’s what really sets it apart from Sam Raimi’s trilogy of Spider-emo-misery.In the rustle of a major motion picture, though, there’s a ton of background noise and you might have missed or forgotten some of the film’s funniest moments. We’ve got them here for you, though, so never fear!Rodrigo GuevaraThe poor guy whose ID Peter stole at the front desk in order to gain access to the Oscorp internship program (and, by extension, Dr. Connors) for the first time got escorted from the premises in a very unfriendly fashion after it was discovered that he didn’t have the required ID.It was a short sequence, but the voice actor in the background really sold it, Peter’s guilty face and sinking posture connected it to the audience and Gwen’t obvious, conscious decision to let Peter get away with it at the expense of this poor sap made it a great comic moment.Munchy maniaWhile most fans will likely focus on Peter Parker and his mountain of food as he walks away from the refrigerator juggling it, it’s Uncle Ben and Aunt May who really shine.When Peter, delirious with hunger, bites into Aunt May’s meat loaf and declares to her that there’s no other meat loaf that good, she’s worried he may be on drugs. Ben responds that he’s worried, too–nobody likes her meat loaf! Before she can respond to that (although she eventually does), Peter pushes past Aunt May with an armload of food in his hands, planning on taking it upstairs and chowing down. May turns to Ben and points out that Peter has a box of frozen macaroni and cheese, to which Ben says, “I noticed that.”Not only is the old-people-bickering adorable, but Sheen’s deadpan delivery on “I noticed that” is classic and hilarious.Discovering his strengthsIn Webb’s version of the story, Peter Parker has some real growing pains in learning how to use his powers. It goes past the typical confusion and training montage, and features things like Peter accidentally dismantling his bathroom because he’s not yet sure of how to deal with his “proportional strength of a spider.”It was a hugely fun little bit of moviemaking and the moment where Peter woke up and accidentally obliterated his alarm clock while trying to slap it into “snooze” got the biggest laugh of any single gag in the movie from where I was sitting.

The scene works because this iteration of Flash is so much worse than Raimi’s, that his humiliation had to be worse, and so when it is, it feels as though there’s some justice in the world.