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"The Amazing Spider-Man opens worldwide next Tuesday (July 3), with (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb at the helm and Andrew Garfield stepping into the Spidey suit previously inhabited by Tobey Maguire.  While critics so far have been generally positive, praising Garfield and Emma Stone&amp;#039;s lead performances in particular, the question for a lot of audiences will nonetheless remain: why remake a barely ten-year-old film?    To help fans make sense of it all, Digital Spy offers up five teasers for what&amp;#039;s new about Webb&amp;#039;s Spider-Man, and another five for what&amp;#039;s stayed the same. What&amp;#039;s new: 1. The mechanical web-shooters are back. Where Raimi controversially did away with Peter Parker&amp;#039;s self-made web devices in favour of an &amp;#039;organic&amp;#039; brand, Webb has reverted to the former, establishing his hero&amp;#039;s intelligence and appeasing the fanboys in one fell swoop.  2. The famously-orphaned Peter isn&amp;#039;t actually an orphan. A flashback sequence sees his parents going AWOL for mysterious and shadowy reasons during his childhood, leaving him to grow up a much more angry and confused young man than fans may be used to.  3. The newspaper angle is out. That means no Daily Bugle, no J. Jonah Jameson, and no sideline in photojournalism for Peter. He&amp;#039;s still a photographer - his desktop image is a debate team photograph he took featuring Gwen Stacy - but as yet not a published one.  4. There is no Harry Osborn. His dad Norman gets a mention and Oscorp is central to the plot, but Peter&amp;#039;s best friend - played by James Franco in Raimi&amp;#039;s series - is nowhere to be found here. Shame, as if there&amp;#039;s one thing this edgy, alienated incarnation of Peter could do with, it&amp;#039;s a BFF.  5. That radioactive spider bite? Rather than happening through sheer bad luck while Peter&amp;#039;s minding his own business on a school trip, this time it&amp;#039;s a result of his own recklessness. It&amp;#039;s still an accident, but sneaking into restricted access areas within mysterious scientific facilities is frankly asking for trouble.    What&amp;#039;s not: 1. The awkward dinner sequence is present and correct. Gwen may be filling the love interest slot in place of Mary Jane, but there&amp;#039;s a scene between Peter and her dad Captain Stacy (Denis Leary) which recalls the tension of Maguire&amp;#039;s Thanksgiving face-off with Norman (Willem Dafoe) in Spider-Man.  2. Although more the moody loner than the nerdy outcast, Peter&amp;#039;s still tormented at school, and his chief bully is still the not at all stupidly-named Flash Thompson. Comic fans may not be surprised by the turn their relationship eventually takes.  3. There&amp;#039;s far less common ground between the scripts than you might expect, but one emotional sequence plays out, almost beat-for-beat, as it does in Raimi&amp;#039;s version. One crucial difference - Garfield gives better tears than Maguire.  4. Villain-wise, Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard (Rhys Ifans) is a different beast from Dafoe&amp;#039;s Norman Osborn/Green Goblin, but thematically they&amp;#039;re cut from the same cloth - scientists who overreach in their attempts to develop superhuman strength and end up really, really ugly as a result.  5. This is a biggie. Swipe to read --&amp;gt; The final ten minutes feature a funeral.&amp;lt; -- Watch a trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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