Iron Man 2

[jack]

To my pleasant surprise, I thought Iron Man 2[*] was much better than the first one, mostly due to the astute move to build on the basic concept and characters but (a) have stuff happen and (b) have interesting characters and conflict evolve.

[*] The Tony Stark one, not the Ted Hughes one.

Comments

[ptc24]

I just like the line: "I've successfully privatized world peace"

[jack]

Yeah, there were several lines I thought were excellent, and really made me laugh -- many in that same opening speech :)

I thought it was very effective that it tackled the obvious outgrowth of problems from the set-up in the first film: Stark going public naturally grows into all the problems people naturally have with this. Which naturally produced tensions where you empathised with both sides, like loving Stark being a smart-arse all the time, but realising why some people would be IRATE at that :)