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Iron Man
At the risk of drawing the ire of Batfans everywhere, I’ll just come out and say it: Iron Man is the best my favorite superhero movie of the year. (Dear Comic-Con: Please don’t revoke my press pass.) Dark Knight is indeed brilliant, and brilliantly dark, but Iron Man is just so much more … fun (AND it has social messages!). Poor Jeff Bridges may not hold a candle to the late Heath Ledger in the villain area, but Iron Man wins out elsewhere. Its characters are colorful and layered, its action is supremely stylish and never overbearing (unlike Transformers, even in its hot metal-on-metal action) and thanks to sensibilities of Robert Downey Jr. and director Jon Favreau, it’s flat-out funny. Man-crush watchful: Downey Jr. is fast on his way to becoming an acting icon, right up there with Al Pacino and Jared from Subway. Buy it!!!
(Available in both without disc

and two-disc special edition)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The latest from Camp Apatow stars a far-too-naked Jason Segel, an nearly unrecognizably sexy Mila Kunis 2.0, a scene-stealing Russell Brand, and Kristen Bell. The film definitely has its moments, but I’m just not sold on Segel as a leading man, who seems to equate “comedic skill” with “revealing your junk.” And as much as we enjoy rooting for a lovable loser, at some point in the movie it helps whether he stops moaning, crying and being generally so extremely pathetic. After Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder and The Happening, Sarah Marshall will have to settle for being the fourth funniest movie so far that year. Rent it, or buy it in the reduction bin (Available in both without disc and two-disc collector’s edition)

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Original post by Kevin Polowy