Just been to see Iron Man 2 at the cinema and I have to say I really enjoyed it! I went into it not knowing what to expect since I’d not seen (nor read anything about) the first one. Thankfully the backstory wasn’t especially… complex, and it didn’t take long before I was up to speed. Any film which contains fighting, flying robots, a drunken robot birthday brawl to the soundtrack of Robot Rock, a historic F1 race round Monaco being interrupted by a super villain, and Robert Downey Jr, has my vote.

The historic motorsport event was brilliantly ridiculous and I was pleased to notice that the official entry list showed the British driver in the number 2 position named “Chapman”. I think that has to be a Lotus reference given the appearance of a very JPS-alike car in the race. Very nice touch from an American production.