I originally thought it was pretty decent. I preferred the Tobey Maguire spidey films but thought Garfield was pretty decent and managed to the the charmingly awkward and quippy jokey style quite well.

I felt a lot of the criticism seemed a bit overly harsh as it was a pretty good film. I didn't love it but certainly didn't hate it. I didn't care much for the 'Peter's parents and oscorp' subplot.

I felt Garfield deserved a third movie to complete 'his' trilogy.