Iron Man 2 Review

Iron Man 2 


Release Date: 29th April 2010 - Australia


Production Companies
Paramount Pictures (presents)
Marvel Entertainment (presents)
Marvel Studios
Fairview Entertainment (in
association with)

Distribution

Paramount Pictures Australia

Genre: Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 125 minutes


Budget: $200,000,000

Box Office Gross: $623,933,331

(Worldwide)

Plot Summary

With the world now aware 

of his dual life as the 

armored superhero Iron  

Man, billionaire 
inventor Tony Stark  

faces pressure from the 

government, the press, 

and the public to share 

his technology with the 

military. Unwilling to let go of 

his invention, Stark, along 

with Pepper Potts, and James 

"Rhodey" Rhodes at his side, 

must forge new alliances -- 

and confront powerful enemies. 

Cast

Robert Downey Jr. - Tony
Stark/Iron Man

Gwyneth Paltrow - Virginia

"Pepper" Potts

Don Cheadle - Lt. Colonel 

James "Rhodey" Rhodes

Scarlett Johansson - Natalie

Rushman/Natasha Romanoff

Sam Rockwell - Justin Hammer

Mickey Rourke - Ivan Vanko

Samuel L. Jackson - Nick Fury

Garry Shandling - Senator Stern

Jon Favreau - Happy Hogan

Paul Bettany - JARVIS (Voice)

Clark Gregg - Agent Phil
Coulson
John Slattery - Howard Stark
Leslie Bibb - Christine Everhart
Yevgeni Lazarev - Anton Vanko
Kate Marshal - U.S. Marshal
Stan Lee - Himself (Cameo)

Crew

Executive Producer/Director -

Jon Favreau

Based on Characters/
Executive Producer - Stan Lee

Based on Characters - Don

Heck, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby

Screenplay - Justin Theroux
Executive Producers - Louis D'Esposito, Susan Downey, Alan Fine, David Maisel and Denis L. Stewart

Producer - Kevin Feige
Co-Producers - Victoria Alonso & Jeremy Latcham
Casting Directors - Sarah Finn &
Randi Hiller

Production Designer - J. Michael Riva
Supervising Art Director - David F. Klassen
Art Directors - Page Buckner,
Michael E. Goldman & Suzan Wexler
Set Decorator - Lauri Gaffin

Costume Designer - Mary Zophres

Director of Photography - Matthew Libatique
Director of Photography: Second Unit/
Second Unit Director - Jonathan Taylor

Second Unit Director/Visual Effects Supervisor -
Janek Sirrs
Stunt Coordinator - Thomas Robinson Harper
Fight Coordinator  Jonathan Eusebio
Special Effects Supervisor - Bruce Allan Donnellan
Special Effects Coordinator - Daniel Sudick

Visual Effects Supervisors - Andrew Hellen & 

Ged Wright

Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM - Ben Snow
Visual Effects Producer: ILM - Wayne Billheimer
Visual Effects Art Director - Aaron McBride 

Visual Effects Art Director: ILM - Alex Jaeger
Physical Suit Effects Supervisor - Shane Mahan
Digital Supervisor - Mike Sanders

Digital Supervisor: Hydraulx - Joshua Cordes Animation Supervisor: ILM - Marc Chu
Head of Animation: Double Negative - Eamonn Butler 

Film Editors - Dan Lebental &

Richard Pearson
Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor/
Re-Recording Mixer - Christopher Boyes

Music Supervisor - Dave Jordan

Music - John Debney


Awards

2011 Academy Awards
Best Visual Effects - Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright
& Daniel Sudick (Nominated)

Review

'IRON MAN 2' wasn't quite as good as the first 'Iron Man' movie, but the sequel did have a lot of fun and contained more popcorn action and impressive visuals that will blow the audience. It's a shame Terence Howard got replaced by Don Cheadle for the role of Lt. Colonel James Rhodes a.k.a. War Machine. The things that I might want to talk about is the main villain played by Mickey Rourke. Might I say that Mickey done an outstanding job of playing the villain, and it would be without uncertainty to say his character Ivan Vanko is in fact a very interesting foe who uses those electric whips. At the after-credits scene on the first hit, Samuel Jackson was already cast by actor/director Jon Favreau to portray as Nick Fury. It's the start of his nine-year contract and the character he plays got into a supporting lead instead of a featured cameo presence.

This film is also complimented with two songs of the Aussie rock band AC/DC and I would confess I'm not a huge fan of AC/DC but for this film I have to say was very fitting.

While not compared to the first instalment, 'IRON MAN 2' was a very worthy sequel and I think it does offer the Marvel fans some valuable entertainment.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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