The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) on Netflix
PG-1320142h 22mActionAdventureFantasy
Peter Parker juggles being Spider-Man and loving Gwen Stacy, though a promise to her late father stands in the way. A new foe, Electro, appears, and old friend Harry Osborn returns.
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- Rotten Tomatoes50%
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Plot summary
Life as Spider-Man keeps Peter Parker busy, and so does Gwen Stacy, the girl he promised her late father he would stay away from. He stops the criminal Aleksei Sytsevich during a plutonium robbery and still makes it to his high school graduation. Max Dillon, an Oscorp electrical engineer, is electrocuted while repairing a power grid and falls into a tank of electric eels. He walks into Times Square charged with electricity, and a blackout follows, drawing Peter into the fight. Gwen tells Peter that an Oxford scholarship could take her to England. Harry Osborn, Peter's childhood friend, comes home to his dying father, Norman, and inherits Oscorp.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Shailene Woodley was cast as Mary Jane Watson and filmed her scenes by March 2013, but the character was cut from the film to streamline the story and focus on Peter and Gwen's relationship.
- Douglas Booth, Sam Claflin, Brady Corbet, Alden Ehrenreich, Boyd Holbrook, Michael B. Jordan and Eddie Redmayne were considered for Harry Osborn before Dane DeHaan was cast.
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was the first Spider-Man film shot entirely in New York state, and at the time was the largest film production ever in the state.
- To transform Jamie Foxx into Electro, makeup artists spent four and a half hours applying blue paint and prosthetics to his body.
- While filming the scene where Spider-Man binds Gwen's hand to a car, Emma Stone went off script and blurted out "Peter!", and the ad-libbed line made it into the finished film.
SPOILER
The scene where Gustav Fiers visits Harry at Ravencroft was added after test screenings, because viewers couldn't tell whether Harry had died, been incarcerated, or escaped.SPOILER
A scene in which Richard Parker meets Peter at Gwen's grave was removed from The Amazing Spider-Man 2. After much deliberation, it was cut because it complicated the story and made Peter seem infantile.- The visual effects for Spider-Man's Times Square battle with Electro took a year to complete, and the crew took over 36,000 photos, including more than 100 billboards, to create a digital Times Square.
