The first Iron Man movie is pretty darn good. The second is not as good, and although passable entertainment, I found myself getting distracted. At least 20 minutes of redundancy could have been cut and editing tightened up a bit. How long do we need to see Stark having a meltdown? In place of a good script and character development (the villain was flat, others characters boringly predictable), we served up a lot of action - almost too much. While good action scenes are a blast to watch, they just don't replace a well-written script and good characters.