I hesitate to waste another second on this movie. If you haven’t seen it, good for you. (If you haven’t seen the first Ironman, Merri and I both loved it.) This iteration was bad in so many ways. I would give it –1 stars, but I still love Robert Downey, Jr, and I like seeing the “Minority Report interface” grow ever grander. (Coming soon to your computer by way of Windows 8 plus Kinect. Well, less grand, no doubt.)

I keep thinking about the brilliance of Aliens: whereas Alien depended on a barely-seen single creature, Aliens features countless monsters to great effect – both versions work very well. In Ironman II, there are several Ironman suits – self-powered why? – plus an army of “drones” which are on the scene despite the fact that the guy presenting them believes they don’t work. (I wish Gary Oldman had played Hammer.) Endless pointless destruction – how long is that entertaining? (Answer: as long as there are human beings – destruction is our raison d’être.)