Well, look what we have here. A new Spider-Man suit (and trailer). It's very shiny so that our friendly neighborhood do-gooder doesn't get run over at night. With 147 days until web-slinging commences its time to break this down with our patented Yes, No, Maybe So™ system.
When I put you on, no one will know I'm not Tobey Maguire
YES
There are various moments within the trailer that get at Peter Parker's intelligence and especially his sense of humor that, let's be honest, the Sam Raimi films kind of skimped on despite their excellence. "You seriously think I'm a cop in a skin tight red and blue suit?"
Love the idea of Spider-Man using his web as a floor to infiltrate a building. You have to keep these things clever since we've seen them so many times.
"I'm in trouble." Casting Emma Stone as Gwen Stacey is a smart move. She's always relatable even in crazy circumstances like "my boyfriend is a webslinging superhero battling a mutated amphibian-man."
Only one villain? And one we haven't yet seen in the Spider-Man films? Such a surprise blessing from Overkill Friendly Hollywood.
MAYBE SO
Apart from Spidey's acrobatic flipping about the trailer doesn't give much of a real sense of exciting action sequences -- and certainly contains nothing as surprisingly fun as the POV shot in the first trailer. Though I do like the shot of the Lizard's tail about to grab Spider-Man. Isn't his Spider Sense tingling? Or doesn't he have that in this movie?
NO
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I preferred webbing being part of his mutation. It made the whole adolescent 'what is happening to my body?' thing more hilariously metaphoric.
The Lizard looks kind of CGI weightless. Not that far removed from The Sandman in the last film, right?
As much as Spider-Man, Emma and Andrew are separately great things... it will have to be "A" level execution to justify its existence given that Sam Raimi's first two absolutely terrific Spider-Man films are hardly distant memories. (Let's just pretend #3 didn't exist? Please and thanks)
That big action bit at the end, I think is meant to get you excited about the 3D? I'm never excited about 3D. Especially since the chunks of buildings falling at you from above 3D thing is already excessively familiar from the latest Transformers movie and Transformers Jr, Battleship.
The Trailer... Not in 3D unless you do some fancy darting about on your own to and from your screen while you watch it.
Are you a yes, no, or maybe so? And for which parts?