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Honest Trailer - The Amazing Spider-Man

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The Amazing Spider-Man is the 11th episode in Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Dan Perrault, Andy Signore, and Brett Weiner. It was narrated by Gannon Nickell. It parodies the 2012 superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man. It was published on November 1, 2012 It was released to coincide with the film's release on home video and Blu-ray. It is 3 minutes and 25 seconds long. In the 6 years since its initial publication, the trailer has been viewed over 10 million times.

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"Witness yet another Spider-Man origin story, just so Sony can retain the rights to the character." ~ Honest Trailers - The Amazing Spider-Man

Script[]

This summer, witness yet another Spider-Man origin story, just so Sony can retain the rights to the character.

The Amazing Spider-Man

Peter Parker was just an attractive, intelligent, likable, athletic, well-dressed teenage loser. But when he easily walks into a high-security lab, one radioactive spider bite will give Peter the ability to... twitch like a crackhead (shows Peter jolting his head towards his bedroom door), break everything (montage of Peter accidentally damaging things), get every father figure in his life murdered, act like a complete jerk every chance he gets...

Spider-Man: I just did 80% of your job. Huh?!

Aunt May: Who does this to you?

Peter: Please, please go to sleep!

...and stutter worse than Shia LaBeouf in Transformers.

Peter: Um, so, uh, you want to, uh, I don't know... / Just, uh... Um, I don't know. / I was--I was, dah... / Yeah, yeah. / No, no, no, no, no. Okay, no, okay? Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I gotta tell you this one thing. I gotta tell you this one thing. / I just--I wish I could just...

Embark on a romantic journey, where the hottest girl in school falls for this creepy stalker...

Uncle Ben: He's got you on his computer.

Peter: Heh...

...proving that love always prevails, even when you have gaping wounds that require immediate medical attention.

Immerse yourself in the epic battle between a hero who refuses to fight with his mask on and a villain with the most cliché origin story imaginable, who is conveniently connected to the most important people in Peter's life.

Uncle Ben: Curt Connors. That's the name of the guy in the picture with your dad.

Capt. Stacy: Dr. Curtis Connors. He was also my daughter's mentor. Is that who you're talking about?

Peter: That's the one.

Experience the re-retold story of an uncle who strives to find yet another way of saying "With great power comes great responsibility"...

Uncle Ben: --that if you could do good things for other people, you had a moral obligation to do those things! That's what at stake here! Not choice... Responsibility.

...as well as all these other moments that you've already seen before, like this (shows Peter's Spider Sense activating for the first time, illustrated as focusing on slow-motion objects in his vicinity), a lot of this (shows Peter trying and failing to swing on a web), and more of this. (shows Peter crying at Uncle Ben's death)

Peter: Call an ambulance!

Swing along with the smartest teenager in Manhattan, who uses the Myspace of search engines (shows Peter looking up Dr. Curt Connors on Bing), and does a terrible job of hiding his secret identity. (shows Peter shattering a basketball net, and catching a football being thrown at him and accidentally throwing it at a goalpost with enough force to dent it) Seriously, nobody thought that was odd?

Starring: Baby Head (Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man); Charlie Sheen's Dad (Martin Sheen as Ben Parker); Forrest Gump's Mom (Sally Field as May Parker); Det. O'Murphy McIrish (Denis Leary as Capt. George Stacy); The Geico Gecko (Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors/Lizard); Octomom (Tia Texada as Sheila); and Lindsay Lohan, If She Had Better Parents (Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy).

The Not Really That Amazing Spider-Man

The for The Amazing Spider-Man was "The Not Really That Amazing Spider-Man".

The honest title for The Amazing Spider-Man was "The Not Really That Amazing Spider-Man".

Eh, at least Kirsten Dunst wasn't in it.

Viewer's Comments[]

say " Bubbaganoosh!" - EmmyDoodles17

please say, "It's time to kick ass and chem bubble gum... and I'm all out of gum" - peteyandycreek

say "rob schneider is a carrot" - 3loada

Say "C is for Cookie" - CamShaddixx

Say "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard ". - froztbite15

Say: "Pikachu, I choose you - Snomell

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Reception[]

Honest Trailers - The Amazing Spider-Man has an 97.7% approval rating from YouTube viewers. Uproxx wrote that the Honest Trailer was "hilarious." Collider wrote that the Honest Trailer "points out the film’s shortcomings, all in good fun." The Huffington Post noted that "Screen Junkies has a knack for saying exactly what we were thinking." Entertainment Buddha agreed, writing "as usual they nailed the critiques that most people may have been thinking while watching this so-so comic book film."

Alloy described the Honest Trailer as "hilarious" and said Screen Junkies "has a point" about Peter Parker getting the most attractive girl in school. Alloy said that the Honest Trailer's comment about the film struggling to find another way to say Spider-Man's most classic line about power and responsibility was "spot-on." In addition, Alloy praised the Honest Trailers series more generally, writing "they also make much better jokes than I’ve seen in similar segments on SNL or other comedy programs."

Production credits[]

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Series Created & Directed by Andy Signore & Brett Weiner

Executive Producer Mitch Rotter

Written by Dan Perrault, Andy Signore, and Brett Weiner

Edited by Andy Signore & Dan Perrault

Voiceover Narration by Gannon Nickell

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