And then there’s the Avengers set-up sprinkled on top, which is a chore, albeit a necessary one.Īny three of Iron Man 2’s plotlines could carry an entire film. It’s watchable, but it’s a wreck because the plot is three stories crammed together: It’s about “legacy”, it’s about Tony suffering from palladium poisoning, and it’s about keeping the Iron Man armor contained to one person who is accountable to no one but his own massive ego. What follows will mostly sound like a long screed against Iron Man 2, but if you stick with it to the end, I promise I will explain its greatest merits. People wanted more of Tony Stark ( Robert Downey Jr.), they wanted more Marvel flavor, and the studio struggled with both.
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The movie does neither particularly well, although that didn’t seem to matter as it raked in over $650 million worldwide and landed as the 3rd highest-grossing film (domestically) for 2010.
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Iron Man 2 presents the mess of a studio trying to figure out how to build a universe while also creating a self-contained film that provides its protagonist a strong arc and character development. The Incredible Hulk showed that the Marvel Cinematic Universe needed serious construction, but it didn’t have any of the pieces.
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