An enjoyable mess – but don't expect a lot of action!

Rating: 7/10 (28 April 2010)

Iron Man 2 is perfectly adequate good-natured summer entertainment, but it loves its characters so much that it forgets to give them anything much to do.
The cast are uniformly excellent, the script is more intelligent than your average blockbuster – the one big flaw is the complete absence of any real action until the very end. The film could have easily been called "Iron Man's Day Off", there was that little going on for most of it. You get an impressive Grand Prix scene about half an hour in but otherwise its all talk, with Iron Man only doing a few party tricks until the obligatory final reel action overload. That comes a little too late and is somewhat samey – in the next film (and I do hope they do make one) I'd like to see Iron Man fight something other than robots or guys in robot suits.
I must add that I was also very disappointed to see that only two AC/DC songs actually featured in the film, will have to watch Maximum Overdrive again to compensate.