Ironman Rocks!

Here’s why I loved Ironman -

1. Robert Downey Jr. is a rare male actor who can draw equal number of admirers from men as well as women. He’s a man’s man and a ladies’ man. And here, not only does he transform himself into a really cool male hero - by which I mean he drinks, he is sarcastic and he is a womanizer, but he also oozes a searing bad-boy sexuality.

2. Jon Favreau directs this movie knowing exactly what the audience wants. He begins the movie with an AC/DC song and ends it with a fight between two men wearing mechanical exoskeletons. He keeps the movie light, intelligent and exciting.

3. The best parts of a superhero movie/comic revolve around the transformation of an ordinary man into the superhero. So, when Tony Stark designs, builds and tests his Ironman suit, I was having goose-pimple overload.

4. Bald and bearded Jeff Bridges plays a surprisingly dark villain. There is something that really strikes a chord in me when father figures turn into villains.

5. Gwyneth Paltrow. ‘Nuff said.

6. Ironman’s suit, and other technological miracles in the film are awesomely cool and really believable.

7. Killer soundtrack.