Blockbuster Buster Transcript: Honest Review: Iron Man 2

(The Channel Awesome presents logo is shown and clips from the trailer plays.)

Tony Stark: Ok, give me a smooch for good luck. I might not make it back.

Pepper Potts: (She kisses the Iron Man helmet and throws it off the plane.) Go get em boss.

ERod (vo): God, I love that woman. Greeting fanboys and fangirls. I'm ERod and I'm the Blockbuster Buster. Let's look at the sequel to the movie that started the Marvel Madness.

(The title of the movie is shown)

Erod (vo): Iron Man 2

(Clips from the movie plays.)

ERod (vo): Now, I'll go ahead and say it, this is my least favorite out of all the Avengers tie-in movies. I know that the success of the first Iron Man was unprecedented and that Jon Favreau was probably pressured into rushing this into production as quickly as possible. But, I still expected a little more quality. So, one again it's time for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

The Plot
ERod (vo): Irony is not without its cruelty as the very same mini-arc reactor that's keeping Tony Stark alive is now slowly killing him. In the midst of Tony searching for a new element to power the reactor and save his life, the son of a former enemy of Tony's father is out to kill Tony, using his own technology against him.

The Good
ERod (vo): 3 major things stops me from busting this one. The first is the villain. I remember when Mickey Rourke made his big comeback with Sin City and The Wrestler. I commented to my dad how he looked like a hulking behemoth now and that the only roles he would get are mythical beings and comic book characters. Done and done-er. And no, it doesn't bother me that he's an amalgam of two villains, Whiplash and Crimson Dynamo cause Rourke is fucking fantastic in this movie. He is so emersed in this part, that you have no dought that he is a Russian, a physicist and a former inmate. The most appealing part of his performance to me is how calm he is. We only see a real emotional outburst from him at the beginning of the movie when his father dies. The rest of the time, he's pretty damn calm. Just look at this scene. He's on his way to kill Tony on a racetrack. Racecars are zooming past him. Shit keeps exploding around him and yet, he's cool as a cucumber. When the police arrest him, he just laughs cause he made a god bleed. Which brings me to my second reason I don't bust this one. The action sequences were spectacular. If that sound petty and silly, well, this is an action movie so you have to take the action sequences into consideration. Great tension, plenty of suspense, lots of excitement but more importantly, they did a great job at re-creating the comic book feel. Especially since this is the first time you get to see superheroes fight in a movie since The Incredible Hulk Returns and that wasn't much of a fight anyway. And the last thing that stops me from busting this one is Robert Downey Jr. He is Iron Man and you can tell that he absolutely loves playing this character cause he is 100% committed to it. Tony is going through some heavy shit in this movie and its just fascinating to watch Downey portray a guy who's led a carefree lifestyle and suddenly has to deal with his mortality. And once again, the banter between him and Pepper is insanely entertaining.

Pepper Potts: (She sees that Tony is going to take down of the paintings he owns and replacing it with an Iron Man poster.) Oh, no, no, no, no, no, You are not taking down the Barnet Newman and taking that up. Tony Stark: I'm not taking it down. I'm just replacing it with this. I'll see if I can -

Pepper Potts: Ok, fine.

ERod (vo): Also, his interactions with Sam Jackson as Nick Fury were pretty good. They played really well off of one another. I find it interesting that both Rourke and Downey are actors who experienced a really bad fall from grace and made miraculous comebacks through comic book movies making it all the more symbolic and meaningful that the two appear in a comic book movie together.

The Bad
ERod (vo): Most of the badness comes from sloppy or just plain old badly written plot elements like Agent Coulson being assigned as Tony's guardian until he invents a new element.

Agent Coulson: I'm not here for that. I've been authorized by Director Fury to use any means necessary to keep you on premises. If you attempt to leave, or play any games I will taze you and watch Supernanny while you drool into the carpet.

ERod (vo): And then, Coulson just disappears and Tony goes out and does whatever the hell he wants. Which makes the scene in which Coulson threatens him completely pointless. There's also the fact that Rhoddy justs walks into the armory and puts on the War Machine armor. Firstly, don't you need to have a mini-arc reactor in your chest to power the thing. And Tony already has one in his chest. Why would he just leave one in the armor? And thirdly, being the most dangerous weapon on Earth, why wouldn't Tony have actual contingencies to stop such a thing from happening. Even Nick Fury thinks this is retarded.

Nick Fury: Whoah, whoah, whoah, he took it? You're Iron Man and he just took it?

ERod (vo): Lastly, the final battle with Vanko was just way to short. It wasn't bad. It was just too short. Allright, I got to cool down besides I'm already halfway through the video. Let's look at a Stan Lee Camero!

(Scene is in first-person from Tony Stark's P.O.V where he meets Larry King (played by Stan Lee). The Stan Lee Excelsior poster is shown with him saying that line and fans cheering.)

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