I took my son, who just turned nine, out this afternoon to see Iron Man. I've been a big fan of Iron Man since I was . . . about nine myself. I remember anxiously awaiting the next issue to see what Tony Stark would get into next. He always had an interesting, somewhat tortured personality.
First of all, it's great fun being able to take my son to see Iron Man. He's been exploring my old comic collection so we were both pretty excited to see the movie. It's PG-13, but I checked around first and although there's a five second "romance" scene between Tony and a woman there's no bad language, no bloodshed. There are several battles where people get shot (western style - clutch chest and fall down, no blood), things blow up, etc. but it's kept pretty tame.
There's a ton of tech. Heads up displays, robotics, rockets and even some old fashioned soldering. Cool. Tony uses his brain and his wits to get the bad guys, who are from Afghanistan but speak Russian, Hungarian and a bunch of languages. Some interesting twists there but the bad guys are definitely the bad guys.
Good fun!
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