In its second outing, the Iron Man franchise is bigger, louder, funnier, darker and more emotional than before. So much so that you hardly notice how thin and choppy the plot is. After saving the world, cocky arms-maker Tony Stark (Downey) is riding on his laurels and fending off attacks from...
Iron Man 2, Jon Favreau’s much-anticipated follow-up to his breakthrough 2008 blockbuster, is less a comic book flick than it is a superhero version of Arthur, the Oscar-nominated 1981 comedy that starred Dudley Moore as a drunken, wise-cracking dilettante.
In his second turn as...