User blog:Kayla L.H./Iron Man 2 review

I know I'm a little late to the pre-Avengers movie party, but I decided to finally do another review post because I'm procrastinating doing actual work. I set up a day to just watch Iron Man 2 a few times and see how well it holds up. I had only seen parts of it and read the synopsis online prior to yesterday.

When The Avengers was coming out, I wanted to go into it not really knowing anything about anyone of these characters in the movie-verse (like many others, I am a comic reader, so I knew the gist). After that, I decided I would eventually watch the other movies, but I really didn't need to because of how much I loved them all in the same movie. The only one I had truly watched was Iron Man.

Now, onto the sequel, I really liked it. Like the idiot I am, I usually read other people's reviews online, and you know how those obnoxious ones always get pushed to the top? Yeah, I didn't expect anything great out of yet another comic movie, and was genuinely shocked.

Though the dialogue was predictable in more spots than it should have been and sort of cheesy, it was also very humorous. I know it's not a comedy, but it was a nice relief from pure action.

The characters held up rather well. Happy Hogan got a larger part, to which I was glad to see, and some of the others, especially Justin Hammer and Ivan Vanko, were a nice combo a villains. Justin is your bad guy who is too pathetic to do the dirty work himself, but hires a real badass to do it for him, and it actually worked. It didn't feel too much like a Hollywood cliche (though I should point out that it stuck out in spots). Not only that, but Tony's struggles throughout the movie weren't overly emotionalized so as to stay within character and Pepper, Rhodey, Natasha, Fury, and Coulson were all given perfectly sized parts for the jobs that needed to be done.

The special effects were great. It wasn't too much and it fit perfectly into the storyline (meaning, it wasn't the director trying to see how many of his toys he could fit into the script). Needless to say, even though it wasn't necessarily required to see this before The Avengers, it was definitely worth checking out after.