It was an ambitious plan to pack Iron Man 2 with all of these characters, perhaps too ambitious. Together, Rourke and Rockwell create the two villains who can potentially ruin Iron Man and Tony Stark’s life. Justin Hammer, played by Sam Rockwell, is Tony Stark’s rival in the weapons industry who produces overly expensive and comically under-developed products and is more or less a joke in comparison to Tony Stark. Ivan Vanko, played by Academy award nominee Mickey Rourke, is a rogue Russian physicist who creates the Whiplash suit in order to make Iron Man bleed for stealing his father’s arc reactor technology. There are also two new villains for Tony Stark and Iron Man to face off with. While he may not be a new character like Johansson’s Natalie Rushman, the voice and presence of Cheadle as Rhodey provides a new outlook on a familiar character. Don Cheadle has also joined the cast, and replaces Terrance Howard in filling the role of James Rhodes due to a complicated contractual fallout between Howard and Marvel Entertainment.
Scarlett Johansson plays the newest addition to the team, the beautiful Natalie Rushman who may be a “very expensive sexual harassment lawsuit” as Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts informs Tony Stark. With both familiar and altered characters as well as completely new ones, Iron Man 2 is filled to the brim with star power. Iron Man 2 can be boiled down to the relationship that these six characters have with one another. Tony Stark reveals himself to his screaming fans and looks right at home. Whizzing past fireworks and buildings, the crimson-gold man lands on a stage filled with beautiful, busty dancers at the Stark Expo convention. He activates the boosters in his feet and hands as he hurls himself from the plane and jettisons toward the thousands of cheering attendees inside the center below. Above a city of a thousand lights, a man in a red and gold suit readies himself to jump off of a military aircraft into what appears to be the Epcot convention center.
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