What a great start summer 2008!

Rating: 8/10 (3 May 2008)

Great guns of Zeus! This is exactly how a summer blockbuster should be made. I wouldn't change one thing about it. Kudos, Marvel. Kudos, Jon Favreau. Kudos, Robert Downey Jr.
Jon's recipe for the summer blockbuster:
Start with: 1. A believable incredible plot. And no - that's not an oxymoron.
Mix in a little: 2. Classically rendered, yet not over the top, CGI.
Add: 3. Controlled sustained performances.
Cook for 120 minutes with: 4. A tight, never-a-dull-moment script (so no weepy, teary eyed drama jerkers coming out of nowhere)
Finally garnish with: 5. Humor and potentially some of the best cheesy one liners to be used in a superhero movie.
And serve! We, the audience, will lap it up like the Apple pie mommy made!
Puh-leese Marvel studios - can you make your other superhero movies as much fun to watch as this one? Pretty please. I know you didn't oversee that monstrous awfulness that was Spidey 3. But there's still some bad taste left from that experience. And you've made me like one of the superheros from your roster that I never really cared about that much in the past.
Oh boy, oh boy! What a start summer 2008. I'm hoping you'll hold up.