Iron Man

Director: Jon Favreau
Writers: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway
Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Faran Tahir

Tayster's Six Pack Rating:



Let's get this out of the way. I knew two things about the Iron Man comic before I saw this movie:

1) His real name is Tony Stark
2) He's a billionaire playboy (Sounds kind of like a DC Comics superhero I know a bit about)

I mean, I had friends that read the comic so I knew what he looked like inside and outside of the suit, but I knew nothing about the background of Iron Man.

Having said that, when I saw the first picture of Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark I thought it was a perfect casting choice. Some of you Iron Man fans may disagree, but if you saw this movie and thought that Downey was a poor choice, you're an idiot.

The guy was freakin' amazing!

There's a lot of people out there that are claiming that this is their all-time favorite Superhero movie. I don't know if I would go that far. I don't even know if I would put it as my top Marvel Comics film spot (that spot belongs to X2), but Iron Man is so much fun, you can't help but smile when you leave the theater.

The cast - from Downey, Jr. all the way to the voice of Paul Bettany - is excellent. Even Gwyneth, who usually drives me nuts, was really good in this movie.

The only reason I didn't give this movie a full Six Pack is because I knew who the "bad guy" was the first time I saw him. (And remember, I didn't know anything of the story prior to sitting my butt in the seat on Saturday night.)

But overall, I enjoyed myself for the first of what I hope to be a long string of great movies this summer. (Prince Caspian is next.)

Oh yeah, make sure you stick around through the credits. (You should do that anyway, you ungrateful movie goers.) There's a nice little scene at the very end that you may want to see.