The first trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has finally arrived, and it's clear that the film is ready to up the stakes from the successful (but modestly received) original. "Every day, I wake up knowing that the more people I try to save, the more enemies I will make," says Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man in the new trailer. "And it's just a matter of time before I face those with more power than I can overcome."
And that's on top of Peter's budding relationship with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), a winking nod to fan-favorite villains Vulture and Doctor Octopus, and all the action and bombast you'd expect from a blockbuster superhero franchise. There's a lot going on in this trailer, which compares — perhaps unfavorably — to the overstuffed Spider-Man 3, which ended Raimi's run on the franchise and eventually led to The Amazing Spider-Man reboot. Will all these disparate elements cohere in the final film? We'll find out when the movie kicks off the summer blockbuster season in May 2014.
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