The Amazing Spider-Man Trailer #2

Posted by on February 7th, 2012   Filed under: Action, Books/Comics, Trailers

It would seem that Sony had a new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man prepped and ready to go in time for Super Bowl Sunday but decided to just save the money and release it online the next day instead. In retrospect, it was probably a smart move, although they would have easily been the talk of the Super Bowl since most of the other trailers underwhelmed. The release of this trailer also coincides with a fan sneak preview event called The Amazing Spider-Man: The Untold Story, where the trailer was screened in 3D for fans in select cities along with 7 minutes of additional footage.

As for the trailer itself, it’s two and a half minutes long and features all kinds of new footage including our first good look at The Lizard. It looks fine, but the big problem, as many thought it might be, is that it feels like we’ve already seen this story once before. I don’t know that Marc Webb’s take on the character is doing enough to distinguish itself from Sam Raimi’s films, even though they are pushing this angle that Peter Parker’s father was as an Oscorp employee who worked with Curt Connors. I guess the other thing it has over the previous films is the 3D element, but that’s something we can’t judge by simply watching this online. What do you think, are you sold on The Amazing Spider-Man? The movie hits theatres on July 3rd; check out the trailer after the jump and sound off in the comments below.



  • James

    I liked it more than the previous one, but you’d expect that. Dennis Leary’s face freaks me out a bit! I like the fact that close up, the suit looks a bit cheap…keeping it real?

  • Chris

    Nothing new here for me…

  • Chris

    Rewatching the trailer for a second time… Andrew Garfield is fucking annoying… or is it just me?

  • Chris

    CGI looks dated already…

  • Is it bad that the best thing in this trailer to me is Dennis Leary? This trailer does nothing for me. And I’m usually pretty down for any summer blockbuster. Battleship looks more entertaining than this.

  • Rick

    This trailer is exactly what I want, Garfield absolutely nails the character and the supporting cast seems good from these small clips.

    The Lizard looks a bit weird but I kinda like that in a film like this, but when the action / character & the humor is all spot on makes this look like it will be great to me.

    Destroys the first trailer.

  • Indianamcclain

    I still think it’s too soon for a reboot. But this is coming from someone who enjoyed all of Raimi’s previous films.

  • Captain N

    Looks much better than Raimi’s version. I look forward to seeing this.

  • Kasper

    Teenage mutant spider-man. Swinging around being all rad. No thanks!

  • Yeah. I think Sean nailed it on the head. We have seen this story before. Minus a few specifics (mechanical web slingers). I mean it even has a scene in high school with him kicking a bully’s ass. We really didn’t need to see the origin story *again*. It simply hasn’t been that long!

    I mean I guess an origin story would appeal to young kids who don’t know the 2001 version, but this looks like it’s going all Batman Begins on us with the darker feel, so that probably will not work as an excuse.

    In short, I’m dubious. It will make plenty of money though, I’m sure. Blah.

  • BarBar

    The first half looks like it should be for the musical, the second for headache pills

  • Here’s what I don’t get about the look of the Lizard. It seems like their going for a more “realistic” take on the him so he looks more humanoid. Yet, he has a giant fucking tail. So apparently he can have a huge tail but having a lizard snout is too unrealistic? Ok.

  • Even though different studios are releasing each film, Marvel is of course still involved, so is it possible that maybe they held off on the Spider-Man trailer so as not to steal the thunder from the Avengers spot, which comes out earlier anyway?

  • Nelson

    I do think the trailer looks very interesting, but, yeah, it feels VERY familiar. I don’t know, I think a ton of people, including myself, will go see this, regardless, but it’s going to be difficult for them to really make it feel new and interesting.

    I’m not really even sure if I should go see this at the theater like I did with 2 or 3 of the previous Spider-Man movies. There’s going to be a definite feeling of deja-vu, like I’ve seen the movie before or something.

    If for some reason the movie doesn’t do well, maybe it will inspire Marvel to pull some of its other properties off the shelf and make an attempt at something truly new, that hasn’t been seen before.

    If it does really well, that’ll open the floodgates for even more reboots and prequels then we have already been getting….oh boy.

  • Ryan Marlow

    I think the Raimi trilogy was the most tonally matched a comic book adaptation has ever gotten to it’s source material. This looks more like the generic product I thought would happen before Raimi blew me away. However, unlike the teaser, this looks watchable.

  • Frank

    I like it but I’m not entirely sold this is going to be anywhere near the level of Spiderman 2.

  • I like that Spider-man seems to have more humor then in the previous films. That is Spidey. Will it hit Spider-man 2 levels? Maybe. Not sure about that though. But hopefully it’s a fun film at least.

  • Garfield > Maguire. Cromwell > Leary.

  • patrik

    #15
    I think Sin City was probably an even better match but I agree that they got it right on Spider-Man.

    Spider-Man 2 is still the best comic book movie in my opinion and it’ll be difficult for this one to match. I’m glad they’re doing the Gwen story instead of Mary-Jane.. At least something different from the previous movies.

  • Napalm

    I think its a badly made trailer. It jumps all over the place which struck to me as being kinda odd. But I’m all for the movie… Garfield nailed the Peter Parker look… plus Marc Webb has already said that he will be more of a “wisecracker” which I’m all in for!

  • HerlyGirl

    I dunno… I didn’t think they needed to be rebooted in the first place – I actually liked Toby as Peter. I doubt I’ll see this in theaters. Just a pain in the ass to relearn who all the actors/actresses are supposed to be and how their stories have changed. Way too soon or this.

    I agree about Denis Leary looking like the best part of the movie though.