Grandeur...but the class of Iron Man is missing..!!!

Rating: 7/10 (14 May 2010)

Iron Man 2 : Very big Expectations and most of them fulfilled.....what a grand movie...loaded with the best actors, superb visuals, thrilling sound effects, unbeatable charisma of Mr. Tony Stark(Downey Jr.).........etc.....!!!!
This movie is a followup of the first part from the point at which it ended.The movie starts with a bang...'Stark Expo' the one initiated by Howard Stark. Enter Mickey Rourke or Whiplash who is the son of the scientist who helped Howard Stark(Tony's Father) to develop the arc reactor technology. He is driven by vengeance(Watch the movie for more). Cut two..Enter Justin Hammer(Sam Rockwell) the man who wants to take over the popularity of Tony Stark....Cut three The US government demands the Iron Man suit and Tony says..'The suit and i are one'.... then Whiplash attacks Tony on a F1 circuit...Rockwell is impressed and he hires whiplash to embed the technology in the suits built by him...at th same time at a party Tony goes super weird and displays the prowess of his suit in a party wherein Rhody comes and takes a spare suit to his command.......whoooaaa..i'l stop....what i wanted to suggest over here is that the plot is too big and the characters are too many and so none of them was properly used......too much cling-clang...and yes there's the gorgeous Scarlett Johansson whose attitude spits fire throughout...!!! Paltrow is just okay as the assistant cum the new 'CEO' of Stark enterprises...!!
Jon Favreau has done a good job. He knew exactly what to do to make this movie bigger than the First part and he's pretty much successful but the screenplay makes the movie suffer...!!!! Also the characters were not given space to act or to justify their character completely...specially Whiplash and Nick Fury(Samuel)...And for me the biggest disappointment was replacing Terence Howard as Rhody by Don...Although Don is good but Terence was far more better in that role in the first part.
Now the USP's...Downey Jr. is the life of this movie.....terrific performance. You can enjoy each moment when he is on screen. The action and the effects are realistic and mind-blowing....!!! In my take this movie may get Oscar nominations for Visual effects, sound mixing and sound editing..!!!!
As was at the end of the first part a scene of the arrival of Nick Fury, even this movie has a special after credits-roll scene....Do watch it....and applaud for Robert Downey Jr.!!!!
Iron Man Rocks..!!