In ages as this where Superman, Batman and Spiderman have been ceaselessly used and abused and used and abused and used and abused so much that Superman’s dhobi has a 24-hour job of washing the cape and .ahem….the underpants!
Refreshingly, Iron man comes giving us the much needed break.
He has no ultra-sonic hearing or a chest built like an ox or the capes and the red-underwear leaving nothing to imagination!
Still.!
*Story
Tony is a playboy, an insufferable arrogant billionaire with very cute one-liners!
Tony Stark, a prodigy takes over his father’s legacy of Stark industries building bigger and better lethal weapons of war.
Once while returning from one of his missile demonstrations in Afghanistan, Tony’s car is violently attacked by terrorists and he is punctured with bullets. He faces a certain death, till professor Yinsen saves him replacing his heart with a metal pacemaker. The metal pacemaker is plugged to a car battery.
(…And I hereby, solemnly swear to send my car mechanic a dozen roses every week!)
Yinsen and Tony are held captive by the Afghan terrorists and this is where Tony realizes that every weapon made in the Stark labs for the protection of American soldiers is also in the hands of the terrorists.
The terrorists blackmail him to build a dangerous missile which would cause utter devastation.
He pretends to comply with the terrorists but ingeniously uses the material to build the IRON MAN!
(That was a profound statement, audience rise for applause please:)
Tony escapes the Afghan terrorists using the Iron Man suit and returns home a changed man(and am not just talking about the metal connecting his left aorta). His attitude towards making killer weapons changes drastically.
He releases a press statement saying Stark Industries will not make any more death machines.
This causes a lot of angst to the baddie-in-the-disguise-of-Tony’s friend!
While the baddie-friend-guy hatches evil plans Tony perfects Iron Man in his lab.
He then goes out and saves Afghan villagers!
Yayy! Finally we have a super-hero who doesn’t fight alien scum or hysterical villains.
The Baddie-friend-guy being the Baddie-friend-guy steals Tony’s invention and turns himself into a bigger iron-man. But the muscled maniac doesn’t know a trick that Tony knows.
.After all the Inventor-genius is still the father!.Hyok! Hyok!
A super-hero without a lady-love is unimaginable and so enters Pepper filling this criterion.
Pepper is Tony’s secretary with a massive crush on him. However the romance is just a little blunt not enough roses, candies and angels playing the harps on the window sills!
And being so used to excessive emotions and candy-floss love, I was left hoping they would atleast exchange a teeny-weeny kiss.
Still, Pepper is the perfect ally to Tony and helps unearth the Baddie-friend-guy.
.In the end does the Baddie-friend-guy lose out? Should I say watch the movie to know more…?
Er.Of course he does! This is a super-hero movie! Only super-heroes are allowed to live.
But watch this movie to see a super-hero born out of necessity, and makes it only though sheer engineering brilliance.
There is a certain charm to Iron Man.
Lastly, the evolution of a super-hero from scrapes of metal though far-fetched is still acceptable in its logical sequence.