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First of all, this is way off-base:

“The first hour of Jon Favreau’s new film is right up there with the best movies of the genre. Too bad the second half sounds like a Ralph Nader lecture on America’s responsibility for all the world’s wars.”

Because obviously the movie’s an indictment of Google: Private industry deals with their country’s enemies to use technology against innocents rather than for them.

Moving on, Robert Downey Jr. was really good (it’s something that other comic-book-movie-makers can learn from. Just because every pimple-faced boy under the age of 45 is going to see it anyway doesn’t mean you can’t hire someone who can actually act).

Gwyneth Paltrow wasn’t nearly as annoying as she usually is. Her first two (or three?) outfits were superb. That black dress with the wide scoop-neck especially. After the purple backless number, though, it all falls apart (it looked awful on her), and that suit she wears for the last half of the movie had so much going wrong with it… But she made a good Miss Pots.

The Martin Scorcese/AT&T message before the previews (”We won’t interrupt your phone calls…”) was hysterical.

I loved the robots. No idea if they’re in the comic book, but whoever thought them up is my kind of person.