| I thought Iron Man 2 suffered a bit from what made Spider-Man 3  such an awful movie in that it tried to do way too much and was  constantly distracting itself. Each of the three story lines were good  on their own but when forced to compete for attention were given short  shrift.
 It delivers entertainment but for me did not rise above the middle of  the pack for comic book movies. Though when I got home AMC was showing Superman  Returns so I was immediately reminded that it could have been much  worse (if they'd been showing Transformers I'd have been reminded  of who truly abysmal it could get).
 
 As for the post-credits nugget I'm guessing that only 20% of the people  there had even the faintest idea of what they were seeing (it's a set up for the Avengers movie), I know I had  to explain it to Lani.
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