Iron Man 2
2010  PG-13  ACTION  2h 5min
CAST— Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson
MUSIC— John Debney  DIRECTOR— Jon Favreau  BASED ON— Characters appearing in Marvel Comics

     Welcome back, metal heads. Iron Man returns to face even more problems than he had the first time around. Tony Stark faces flack when the government begins to view Iron Man as a weapon and tries to commandeer his armor. He faces ruin when he names girlfriend Pepper Potts CEO of Stark Industries. He loses his best friend James Rhodes when Rhodey sides with the government. To top it off there’s a new baddie in town: a mad Russian physicist called Whiplash, whose world revolves around vengeance, vodka and cockatoos. Funny yet mature, with slam bang action sequences and lots of comic book references for the Marvel geek (and you needn’t be Scandinavian to figure out who’ll be here soon). Don’t forget a top-notch cast delivering some darn fine performances. A simply Marvel-ous sequel.
OUR RATING— ***
PRECEDED BY— Iron Man (2008), The Incredible Hulk (2008)
FOLLOWED BY— Thor (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Ant-Man (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Doctor Strange (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)