The Best & Worst “Spider-Man” Movies On Disney+ Ranked

September 29, 2026 Roger Palmer

With the release of the latest Spider-Man film, “Brand New Day” in cinemas this summer, many comic book fans around the world might be looking to get in the swing of things by checking out some of the previous adventures of your friendly neighbourhood superhero.

I’ve pulled together a list of the live-action movies featuring “Spider-Man”, ranking them from worst to best. For the purposes of this ranking, I’ve also not included the animated films, nor the Marvel “Avengers” and “Civil War” films, or villain spin-off films.

Unfortunately for Spidey fans, due to the complicated licensing rights for the character from a deal made years before Disney purchased Marvel, Sony owns the rights to the “Spider-Man” movies, though Marvel Studios does collaborate with them on the latest films with Tom Holland.

This also means that Sony distributes the movies, resulting in these films being available on Disney+ around the world in different ways from country to country due to licensing contracts. So not every film on this list may be available on Disney+ in your country.

Here’s my ranking for the “Spider-Man” live-action movies

8) Spider-Man 3

Kicking this ranking list off, there was only really one choice, “Spider-Man 3”, which failed to translate one of the best villains in the Marvel universe, Venom, to the big screen, and it’s hard to believe we’ve still not had a proper clash between these two amazing characters, even after three solo “Venom” movies with Tom Hardy.

In this adventure, Tobey Maguire returns to finish up his trilogy, taking on two villains, the shape-shifting Sandman and Venom, which, as is typical with superhero films, never quite hits the mark when the story gets split between multiple bad guys. They should have dropped the Sandman element from the film, or spread the Venom storyline out across multiple films, as this was such a disappointment. It also didn’t help that Topher Grace just wasn’t the right choice to play Eddie Brock, as he just didn’t have “it” as the top villain.

7) The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Up next is the first instalment featuring Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man, who I think did a good job of playing the role of Spidey, but always felt a little too old for the role of a teenager, which (spoiler) is why I think Tom Holland makes the best Peter Parker!

In this second film, we get a fantastic storyline involving Peter failing to stay away from the woman he loves, Gwen Stacy, regardless of the promise he made to her late father. This film also tries to tackle the classic storyline of the death of Gwen, but sadly, as with so many superhero films, it suffers from being overstuffed with too many villains; instead of just focusing on the Green Goblin, it introduces Electro, who just never matched up to how cool and quirky he was in the comic books.

6) The Amazing Spider-Man

While Andrew’s first instalment in the franchise was much better than his second, it just can’t compete with the rest of the “Spider-Man” films, as it looks to reboot the franchise after the departure of Tobey, making some small changes to Spidey’s background by having Peter discover a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance, which leads him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father’s former partner. Setting up the Lizard as the film’s main villain was a nice change from too many goblin-themed villains.

5) Spider-Man: No Way Home

Easily the biggest box office success of the franchise is “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, which brings the multiverse into the mix by bringing together all three different versions of the live-action Spider-Man movies together, along with their respective villains, for an epic event that also incorporates plenty of Doctor Strange and ultimately delivers one heck of a fun adventure. While I usually dislike having too many villains in a film, this one does a great job in balancing them all, mainly because they don’t have to do any introductions, since every movie on this list helps set it up, in possibly one of the weirdest “Spider-Man” films ever.

4) Spider-Man: Far From Home

This one sees Spider-Man going international, as Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest, as Peter has to team up with Nick Fury to uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent. With so many villains in the rogue’s gallery, this list highlights how a new villain can make or break a story. Also, shifting the location from New York meant that this feels like a fresh take on the classic hero.

3) Spider-Man 2

Following the fantastic first instalment in the franchise was never going to be easy, but I think they pulled it off with the introduction of Doc Ock and the balancing act of Peter Parker not being able to deal with his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, the girl he’s loved since childhood. It is also able to nicely balance the problems his best friend Harry Osborn is having following the death of his father in the first film, while also setting up the third.

2) Spider-Man: Homecoming

Following the events of “Captain America: Civil War” (which is available on Disney+!), Tom Holland gets his first solo movie and, among all of his appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is arguably the most successful actor to take on the role. One of the things I really liked about this adventure, is that they managed to successfully bring Spidey back to his high school years, with all the actors feeling young enough to actually pull it off, (since he was still a teenager!). I also think Tom was able to give us the version of Spider-Man I remember from the comics and cartoons. Throw in Iron Man and the excellent Michael Keaton as the film’s main villain, The Vulture, and you’ve got one of the best Spider-Man films ever made (I swapped this movie with the next on this list half a dozen times!).

1) Spider-Man

The original movie that finally brought Spidey to the big screen in 2002 will forever be my favourite film. Since it’s the first, it was able to fully take advantage of doing the origin story of what happens after Peter is bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp. We get to see him develop his powers for the first time, get in the ring with the late great Macho Man Randy Savage and deals perfectly with the death of Uncle Ben. As a Spider-Man fan my whole life, this was that moment where he finally gets to make his debut on the big screen, after years of watching cartoons and the TV series from the 70s as a kid, this was the moment Spider-Man stepped up to finally stand alongside Batman and Superman.