Toronto - May. Its a special time of month. For university students, its the first month of vacation and crappy summer job. Its also the start of cottage season and for Australians, its the start of Winter or something. However, one thing trumps all. The beginning of May is also the beginning of blockbuster season, and all the big budget movies come out. The blockbuster season officially started with the Jon Favreau helmed Iron Man (or as chem nerds like to call him - Fe Male .. haha lame.).

This movie is awesome. After the massive disappointments of last year - X Men 3 and Spiderman 3, super hero movies get back on track with this film. It has everything you want in a blockbuster movie, action, one liners, more action, explosions, explosions. The difference between Iron Man and the failures of last year is that this film was well paced and actually developed the characters before unleashing the shizzle onscreen.

The acting is great, Robert Downey Jr is awesome as Tony Starks and Gwyneth Paltrow (welcome back), T-How and Jeff Bridges provide solid support. Gwyneth Paltrow was particularly good as the long suffering Pepper Potts. I think Batman and Ironman proves that if you have quality actors in an action movie, it works quite well (lookin at you George Lucas).

4.5/5

 

 The Cardigans - Iron Man: Play Now

props to Mark for knowing about this tune.