 Andrew Garfield received good notices for his performance . Bob Mondello of NPR said , " Here comes another Spider @-@ dude : This Andrew Garfield guy . So he 'd better be really something , right ? Well , as it happens , he is . " Tom Charity of CNN found Garfield 's " combination of fresh @-@ faced innocence , nervous agitation and wry humor ... immediately appealing . " Stephanie Zacharek of Movieline said she " had no specific desire to see the series resuscitated . But watching Garfield and Stone made me think doing so wasn 't such a bad idea " . Mary F. Pols of Time said that even though the story was familiar Garfield and Webb made it feel " convincingly fresh and exciting . " 
