Saw Iron Man 2 last night with a friend and I didn't like it at all. Didn't care about any of the characters, who were too one-dimensional, stereotypical, unimaginative, boring, or cheesy for me to care about. That made all the rest of the scenes in the movie pointless because I didn't care about anything or anyone and I felt that the movie did a good job of putting me in that position. The only entertaining part was when Samuel Jackson came on screen and told Iron Man to stop being an idiot. Five minutes later the movie lost me again. Also the part where Hammer is explaining his weaponry to the military was funny but so different from the rest of the movie that I feel it was written by a someone whose only contribution to the film were those lines.
This movie was as bad for me as Punisher: War Zone was but going above and beyond that at least I cared about what happened to the Punisher in that movie, but in Iron Man 2 I could have cared less what happened to Tony Stark and relationship with his father and secretary and butler and suit and computer AI and legal assistant, and buddy and the other ten characters this movie tried to make me care about while only succeeding in overloading on its intended goal of being one big ad for the upcoming Avengers movie.
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