Comparing Jon Favreau's Sequel To The Original Iron Man Movie

The beloved hero Iron Man has gotten everyone worked up over the satisfying sequel to the original Iron Man. Iron Man created a fan base audience making over $318 million in the box office. Iron Man being the hero to many above Superman, Batman, or even Captain America has created a worldwide fan base. The director, Jon Favreau did a fantastic job with the first Iron Man movie, and he is now back to direct the sequel. Some positives about the movie are that the visual effects were on point. There were some parts where it seemed like they had rushed some of the visual effects, but for the most part they worked out really well. The action in this movie was better meaning the content was better, but quantitatively it was very limited and weak.

There are many actors and actresses that help bring this notorious movie to life. Robert Downey Jr. also known as Iron Man himself plays the perfect role as an iconic hero in which he owned in the previous movie. They play more of his annoying and personal side in this movie. He has many issues including internal issues that are only known by the audience. Gwyneth Paltrow, plays as Pepper Potts as Stark’s go to woman. Pepper was a small role in the first movie, but now she has more lines. She runs the Stark Industry for Tony while he does the inventing and the crime fighting. Pepper isn’t just a character, she is part of Tony Stark and without her, he would be lost in his company. Scarlett Johansson, a gorgeous woman plays her part as Black Widow which is part of the Avengers series. Even the director himself is in the movie as an assistant to Tony Stark. His role is to be Tony’s bodyguard which is ironic because Tony does not need a bodyguard because he is freaking Iron Man. The antagonist in this movie is played by Mickey Rourke. Marvel has done a wonderful job with their movies from Spiderman to the Avengers therefore this movie was bound to be great from the

They pulled in Black Widow, and Nick Fury to be in a short duration of the movie. They gave insight about the group known as “S.H.I.E.L.D.” Many may argue that this movie was used to set up for the Avengers and future Iron Man sequels. This movie fits in the grander Marvel films because there are subplots where two main Avengers characters are portrayed in the Iron Man 2 film. If you are not involved or understand some concept of the Avenger’s, you will be confused as to why these characters are in the movie. Also if you stay until the end of the credits like most other sequel movies, there is a little Easter egg for Marvel