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Article: FILM REVIEW: 'Iron Man' falls far short of invincible namesake
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- February 1, 2007
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Tae Andrews
University Wire
02-01-2007
(The Observer) (U-WIRE) SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- For those college students socially adept enough to have never picked up a comic book in their lives, Iron Man doesn't carry the same superhero name recognition as a Batman or a Spider-Man. As such, most undergraduates may be unaware that Marvel recently released "The Invincible Iron Man," a reboot of the Iron Man mythos, for the faithful in the form of a straight-to-DVD animated classic. At least, that's what the goal was.
Sadly, even Iron Man's rocket shoes can't launch this clunker of a flick off the ground. Although the DVD features pretty good animation, bad dialogue and the typical convoluted plot ...