Let me start off by saying that I liked the first Iron Man movie. Unfortunately, I found that this one really lost its way somewhere in the mix. I don't know if it tried too hard to do too many things and thus ended up being watered down or whether the vision people saw on the inside was just clearly out of touch with the people sitting in the theater.

Any time I turn to my wife during a movie and we agree it's horrible is a bad sign for me. How this was green-lit all the way to theaters is beyond me. Certainly some people must have tried to shape this up along the way during development, but overall this is simply *not* a good movie...not even a good popcorn flick.

At this point, I hope there will not be an Iron Man III. If that is in the works, I really hope they go back to the drawing board and figure out what worked well in I, what flopped in II, and steer a good course in between. Better luck next time, but you won't get the vote of my movie dollars either way.