Overall Rating: B
Filmmaking/Artistic: B
Storytelling: B− (ranging all the way down to C whenever Mickey Rourke comes in)
MPAA Rating: PG-13
The pitch
Splice and dice the first one and blow stuff up, and watch the cash come rolling in.
Overview
Seriously. Just the best bits of the first one, with a new bad guy (and a confusing storyline, but who cares?) Best part, no lie, is Robert Downey, Jr. Gwynneth Paltrow talking over each other.
Review
Really, folks, not much to say. Somehow the Iron Man has toxic blood schenomechofascitalipronashism, or something, that can easily be summed up with a number from 0% (healthy) to 100% (dead). The number keeps rising, so Iron Man is moody, but not as moody as the new villain played by Mickey Rourke–a kind of poor man’s iron man with a ripped shirt and these electric whips weapons that look like something Lady Gaga dancers might also be slinging around.
Mickey Rourke is all mad because of something about Russia and stolen plans and father issues and the excesses of capitalism and caves and the unfairness of it all, but it doesn’t matter. It’s fun to watch Iron Man fly, and racecars rollover and blow up, and Iron Man and Pepper Pots bicker, and Jon Favreau have a few lines. It’s been about a month since Your Movie Monkey saw this, and he seems to remember something about a kick butt female agent as well, but it’s quite possible that was another movie.
Not as good as the first one, but if you like the first one, you’ll definitely like this. And it’s appropriateness for kids is about the same as the first one.
