Pretty good, not as good's the first one though.

Rating: 7/10 (9 May 2010)

I think this one falls into the Spidey II mold-mucho personal introspection on the part of the hero, his flaws come out in a big way, and there's a rather drawn out flat section of the movie where he's Not Iron Man, and it does drag things down some. They were going for more charcterization I realize, but-it's kinda slow.
What works? Downey Jr. as Iron Man is up to par as he was in the first, it's quite good. This is his role.
Paltrow as Potts is okay, but they did make her out to be a shrew.
I liked Scarlet as the Black Widow, not on screen all that much but what they do show is perfectly fine.
Baddie's plot-well the Crimson Dynamo(Rourke) teams up w/ a rival arms builder(Rockwell), to field an army of Iron Man-like Drones. Takes'em out w/ Cheadle's help. Mucho explosions, shooting and flying around. I would have liked a couple more scenes like that during the movie, honestly--just to help the pacing.
Roarke is okay as Vanko there you just don't see him doing that much save making Drones, hacking into networks and slicing up a couple Le Mans cars. That part was fine, by the way.
Check it out though, a good way to open up the summer--though you can be forgiven if you think you've seen parts of this before-Robocop or Transformers esp come to mind.
*** outta ****