IronMan
Headline: ** Superhero Fun **
Title: IRON MAN
Quality: * * * * Acceptability: -1
SUBTITLES: -- Portions in Arabic with English subtitles --
WARNING CODES:
Language: L
Violence: VV
Sex: S
Nudity: N
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: May 2, 2008
TIME: 126 minutes
STARRING: Robert Downey, Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow
DIRECTOR: Jon Favreau
PRODUCER: Kevin Feige
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Avi Arad, Jon Favreau, Louis D'Esposito, Peter Billingsley, Ari Arad, Stan Lee, and David Maisel
WRITERS: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, and Matt Holloway
BASED ON THE COMIC BOOK SERIES CREATED BY: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, and Jack Kirby
DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures/Viacom
CONTENT: (BB, C, H, L, VV, S, N, AA, MM) Ultimately strong moral worldview with a redemptive element of taking responsibility for one's actions and choosing against corporate corruption along with a humanist element; three obscenities and one profanity; much fantasy violence of men in robot type suits, war time battles with machines guns and explosions, opening sequence shows soldiers being killed; brief scene of implied pre-marital sex and hero has promiscuous reputation; upper male nudity in medical context and women in short skirts, bare midriffs and base backs; much alcohol use by hero and others including drunkenness; no smoking or illegal drugs; and, lying, corporation selling arms to terrorists, kidnapping, and betrayal by friend.
GENRE: Science Fiction
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older children and adults
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SUMMARY: IRON MAN stars Robert Downey, Jr., in the story of billionaire defense contractor Tony Stark who builds a high tech suit of armor and inadvertently becomes a superhero. The movie is filled with comic book fun and fantasy action with few objectionable elements, but it requires caution and parental guidance for older children.
IN BRIEF:
IRON MAN stars Robert Downey, Jr., in the heroic story of billionaire defense contractor Tony Stark. After a new missile demonstration in Afghanistan, Tony is kidnapped by terrorists (using arms developed by Tony's company) and forced to build the weapon he just demonstrated. Instead, he builds a suit of armor to escape. Back home, he tries to change the direction of the company because terrorists have access to his high tech weapons. His noble efforts are blocked by corporate partner Obadiah, who has his own agenda. Undaunted, Tony builds a new version of the armor suit to stop the terrorists.
IRON MAN is an enjoyable ride with terrific special effects. A battle of good versus evil, it contains minimal foul language and one implied sex scene. However, as a role model, Tony is a womanizer and rarely is far from an alcoholic drink. As he finds his calling to protect refugees from terrorists, those aspects to his character are dropped, suggesting a positive change. The military scenes are too intense for children, though most actual violence is either off screen or between men battling in suits of high tech armor.
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