Iron Man 2

If you're particularly averse to any kind of spoiler, don't read this, but I promise it has nothing to do with the plot!

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In Iron Man 2, which I saw today, I thought it was cute that one of the fight scenes takes place in a "classical" Japanese/anime setting, complete with red tori gate, fluttering cherry blossoms falling around the characters, and an attack that involves some katana-like slicing through an entire tree trunk in one go. Nice tip of the hat to the Japanese comic book world. :)

As far as the movie, I liked the first one better but thought this was one was ok. I think the solid plot of the character-creation arc of the first one is tough to follow, and the characters didn't grow much this time around.