Fairly Good Sequel to a better Original

Rating: 6/10 (24 October 2010)

A couple years ago Iron Man was a solid super-hero movie with a better story and dynamics than this film I thought. So, Iron Man 2 comes along and has to try to live up to it's predecessor and mostly does. It has a satisfactory villain and some excellent slick special effects, however I thought some of the dialog and story seemed to be reaching too much. Instead of meaningful clear cut conversations there becomes excessive banter (ok not nearly as bad as the Dark Knight). And the Paltrow/Downey relationship seemed to stale to unbelievability a bit. Lastly, couldn't they have come up with a new concept for villain(?), once again we have Iron Man fighting another pseudo Iron Man. Anyway despite a few of these detractions, Iron Man 2 is watchable, but probably not too re-watchable.