I had heard good things about this movie, so I went in expected a fun popcorn flick. Thrills, chills and pop spills…all of that. Robert Downey Jr is a great, underrated actor, so I was anticipating a good job from him. Gwyneth Paltrow gave an adequate performance also. I barely recognized Jeff Bridges; I thought it was Kris Kristopherson for a few minutes. What a drastic change!

I wasn’t expecting it to have humor in it. I never thought of Tony Stark as anything other than a man who happened to stumble into the superhero business half blind from alcohol poisoning.

And yes, he is a jerk through the first one third of the movie…until he realizes that the weapons–his primary business just happens to be weapons manufacturing– he made hurt innocent people. THEN he evolves into an most unlikely superhero.

I really enjoyed this movie, mostly because of the special effects and the marvelous way that Downey created Tony Stark. Yeah, the villian (s) not as completely developed as I would like, but then, this isn’t a film about them. (And I get tired of hearing of why bad guys are bad….sometimes it’s just enough to know it.)

This movie is about Iron Man! Who is still a jerk but with a heart of gold.