Iron Man 2

Starring:  Morton Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johanssen, John Favreau
Action, 2010 (Rated PG 13)

Tony Stark (Downey) the front man of Stark Enterprises finds that his revolutionary Iron Man suit technology has been duplicated by the son of a prominent Russian Scientist who defected to the United States and was later deported.  Not only is he on thin ice with the US Government who rails against his refusal to release the suit into government custody he is also being slowly killed by the very device that has been keeping him alive.  He must figure out a way to stay alive and fight against not only his rival who would do anything to one up the ever popular Stark Enterprises, but also his newest sidekick who just so happens to be a rouge scientist intent on seeing Stark dead.

• Tony Stark is just so cool.  He is like a rock star without a guitar or a band.  So incredibly flashy, devilish, and extremely narcissistic that you can't figure out if you should love him or hate him.
• The special effects in the movie were amazing as was the tiny 23" waist on Natalie (Johansson) so wonderfully cinched in by her equally sexy and functional combat body suit. 
• Natalie's extreme fighting acrobatics were a little over the top but if you don't like it then you probably don't like the movie either because it's all over the top in one way or another but I think that's what's made it such a box office success. 

5 STARS

The Informers

Drama, 2008 (Rated R)

Starring: Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Billy Bob Thornton

This movie is made up of a series of different connected stories about rich dysfunctional people in dysfunctional relationships, most of which are involved in drugs or other illegal activities in 1980's Hollywood. Most of the characters are either directly involved in or loosely related in one way or another to the film/entertainment industry. Theirs is a world where just about anything goes. There is only one story line that has to do with an every day joe trying to make it. He just so happens to have a criminal uncle who drags him into a crime.

• There isn't really a story line or plot. Just the random goings on of a group of intersecting people.
• There is quite a bit of nudity and more then one orgy that takes place.
• Sad stories about mostly sad people.

3 Stars