Anyone who likes this more than the Ang Lee film is the reason Marvel gets away with putting out garbage. There is NOTHING in this film that's even close to better than anything in that movie, and yeah, that includes the fucking poodle. Half a star for the sonic canons.
Now we're talking. It's fun, the stakes are solid from the get go and all the characters work. At this point I think we're pretty deep into the go ahead for the Avengers rollout, but this film rolls along nicely without ever really dragging its feet. It's a shame the movies never really touched on the alcoholism beyond this film, but minor nerd gripes aside, everything about Iron Man 2 works, either simply or effectively bar one National Treasure style…
