Another Marvel animated feature. This is the third one I've seen, and this is clearly the worse of them. There are some serious problems with the structure of the story. First, we see a variation of his origin, where he builds the armor in captivity. Then when he returns back to America, we see that he had already built many, many variations of the Iron Man armor. When he uses the armor, he seems to be seriously under-powered.
The characters are poorly developed. Stark doesn't have much personality. When he does show a touch of character, later in the movie, he comes across as a whiny kid. Which is strange for a guy who is supposed to be an adult. The secondary characters are also pretty dull. I suppose that Rhody and Pepper are developed about the right amount. But Howard Stark is never anything other than a caricature.
The technical end of this movie is annoying. The animation borrows some anime techniques (at least, from the little bit of anime I've seen). The action is clunky. There's an annoying habit of doing some very cool animation, follow by doing some very cheap actions - like keeping a single frame of a character and moving the background to make them fly. I don't usually care about this kind of thing, and I'm willing to overlook it, but in a story like this, and with a character like Iron Man, it seems disrespectful.
The good thing about this picture was that they were willing to include Fin Fang Foom. I've always liked the idea of a dragon existing in the Marvel universe. The bad thing is that he was way too easy to defeat.
I don't know what I was expecting with this one.
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