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 Iron Man 2
By Christopher
Gildemeister
Release Date:
May 7, 2010
MPAA rating:
PG-13 for sequences of intense
sci-fi action and violence, and some language
Starring:
Robert Downey, Jr., Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett
Johansson, Don Cheadle, Sam Rockwell
Recommended age:
14+
Overall PTC Traffic
Light Rating:
Red
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Sex |
Sexual
innuendo, partial nudity |
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Violence
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Death depicted and implied, guns, crashes, explosions, martial arts
fights, fantasy violence |
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Language
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S-word, bleeped f-word, “ass” |
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Behavior |
Drinking, flirting |
Tony Stark seems to be on top of
the world. The billionaire inventor is also the acclaimed super-hero Iron Man,
who has successfully “privatized world peace.” But forces are assembling which
will do their utmost to bring Stark low. A vindictive senator demands Stark
surrender the Iron Man armor for use by the government. Stark’s business
competitor Justin Hammer is willing to stop at nothing to steal Stark’s
inventions. The vengeance-crazed Ivan Vanko, whose father cooperated with Tony’s
father in founding an industrial empire, is out to destroy Tony’s legacy of
peace. And Tony’s own invention – a device which keeps his injured heart beating
– is slowly poisoning Stark and bringing him near death. But when Vanko creates
the identity of the energy-powered Whiplash and teams up with Hammer, the battle
lines are drawn: Iron Man, his Air Force pal Rhodey in a heavily-armed copy of
the armor, called War Machine, and the beautiful secret agent Natasha Romanoff
versus Vanko and Hammer’s army of robot drones.
Iron Man 2
is in the traditional mold of the superhero movie, and while containing more
special effects-driven action, is actually less realistically violent than the
first film. Vanko is seen to murder several prison guards, and more people are
presumably killed in the violence which Hammer’s drones unleash; but most of the
movie’s action scenes consist of fantasy violence between Iron Man, robots, and
other opponents clad in high-tech armor. Several martial-arts style fights are
also seen (notably, one in which Natasha defeats multiple security guards in
hand-to-hand combat). Stark consistently flirts with Romanoff and every other
woman who crosses his path, some of whom are seen scantily-clad or wearing
lingerie, and tosses out various sexual innuendos, though none are particularly
crude or graphic. Language is more extreme, with the s-word used several times,
a senator cursing Stark using a bleeped f-word, and multiple uses of variations
on the word “ass.” In one scene Stark, fearing his imminent death, gets drunk at
a party while wearing his Iron Man armor and acts irresponsibly, endangering an
entire crowd, until Rhodey dons the War Machine armor and battles him to a
standstill.
Like its prequel, Iron Man 2
is a faithful and exciting adaptation of the comic-book superhero, though due to
the movie’s language, the PTC does not recommend this film for viewers under age
14.
For PTC’s review of the first Iron Man
movie,
click here.
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