"Iron Man 2": Parody or party?: "
During the first few minutes of 'Iron Man 2,' it's pretty hard to tell the difference between this movie and Mike Judge's 'Idiocracy,' or for that matter from a host of earlier nightmarish parables about America's future that preceded it. (Schwarzenegger's late-'80s vehicle 'The Running Man,' anyone? Anyone?) In a delirious opening scene, arms dealer turned human weapon Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) descends to the stage of some arena-rock spectacle, wearing his impenetrable iron-dong costume, and emerges from it perfectly coiffed, without a drop of sweat, clad in a designer suit that is to Armani couture as Peruvian cocaine is to sidewalk chalk. The crowd roars. Some dude yells, 'Blow something up!'
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