Iron Man has always been one of my top five comic book superheroes, and I am surprised that it took till 2008 for a movie to be made. After all, Robocop essentially did “Iron Man” over twenty years ago, and did it very well. This leads me to my problem with Iron Man; the only problem I have with it. The CGI sucks. What’s that? You say I am crazy and that the special effects were awesome? Let me elaborate.

The actual renderings were great, but the animation was lacking.

If you look at Robocop 2, it had a great fight scene with Robocop vs. Robo-Cain at the end of the film. The fight was done with all stop-motion animation, and to me is the best stop motion animation I have ever seen. The stop motion animation brought something to the fight that most CGI effects don’t have today; WEIGHT.

In “Iron Man” both Iron man and Jebidiah Stone (In his ‘iron’ suit) had no weight to their animation or renderings. They were both jumping around like insects with superhuman agility. Yes, I realize that they both have Uber-suits, but both of the suits were prototypes and both villain and hero had little time to train to get to the point to do the incredible things that they both were doing in the movie.

Look at the LOTR movies. Arguably the best CGI ever (so far). Everything in all of the those movies felt like they were real and had weight. ILM is apparently still suffering from “Jedi” fever from the prequels; making everything in all of their movies move like the Jedi did: super fast and super agile.

Anyhoo, boiled down, the fight scenes in Iron Man really did not get my juices flowing. The only part I really liked, was when Stark first breaks out of the cave with the Mark I suit; now that was badass. Why was Iron man simply knocking around goons badass? Because he felt real. He was slower and more lumbering, not bouncing off the freakin’ walls like Spiderman.

I just hope ILM is not as spastic with the New Incredible Hulk movie, as they were with Iron Man. I want to see “Hulk Smash,” not “Hulk move faster and more agile than Spiderman.”