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Iron Man - Armored Adventures Vol.1 [DVD] [2008]
enlarge	Studio: ITV DVD Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £8.99 as of 25/11/2009 20:36 GMT details You Save: £4.00 (31%) New (3) from £8.99 Seller: findprice Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 10242 Format: Box set, PAL Rating: Parental Guidance Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 2 Running Time: 312 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5037115309532 ASIN: B0029KQNZ0 Theatrical Release Date: 2008 Release Date: September 7, 2009 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: If you like Iron Man then you'll love this! September 23, 2009 B. Moore (UK) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful I'm a massive Iron Man fan, and I love animation as well, so I was really pleased when I got this for my birthday! The story lines are really good and the animation looks really good as well. Overall, this is a great DVD, and it's over 300 minutes long so will keep you entertained for hours. Highly recommended. A series that succeeds despite itself October 18, 2009 Christopher Mcfeely (Londonderry, Londonderry United Kingdom) "Iron Man: Armoured Adventures" did NOT fill me with confidence when it first came to light. After the huge success of the live-action movie, the news that the series would be presenting Tony Stark as a teenager seemed an unnecessary storytelling device (the movie didn't need to make the character younger in order to sell him to a younger audience, why should the cartoon?), and compounding that was the fact that it harkened back to a very unpopular period from the character's history in the mid-90s, when he was replaced with a teenage version of himself. After all, by removing the adult Stark from the equation, you remove the opportunity to tell some of his greatest stories, like the seminal, alcohol-fuelled "Demon in a Bottle", or his many tales of loves lost and won. The accompanying age-regression of many of his supporting cast like James Rhodes, Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan was a rude accompanying shock, albeit a neeeded one to make the ensemble work. The discovery that his arch-enemy, the Mandarin, recieved the same treatment, however, was very nearly the last straw for me, as this just wasn't necessary the way it was with his friends and allies. What was next, I wondered? Madame Masque, high school prom queen? Whiplash, sports jock famed for his locker-room rat-tails? Fin Fang Foom, cabin boy of an alien spacecraft, able only to breathe flame when he sneezed? Top it all off with some flat-out ugly cel-shaded CGI animation, and redesigns of supervillains that made them look nothing like themselves, and I resolved that "Armored Adventures" was not the show for me. br / br /And then... it... got... GOOD. Barrelling through all of my greivances, the show began juggling multiple ongoing plotlines (Tony's struggle to reclaim his company from Obadaiah Stane, Tony and the Mandarin's quest for the Makluan rings, the war between the Mandarin's Tong and the criminal Maggia, the terrorists of AIM working on their MODOK project...), brought in guest characters from all over the Marvel universe, forging all the character relationships I expected and wanted to see (Pepper's crush on Tony, Tony and Rhodey's strained relationship over Tony's lying and manipulation), and made the absolute most it possibly could of Iron Man's admittedly limp rogue's gallery (you've got the Mandarin, and everyone after that is C-level at best), and eventually even refining their design process so that characters like the Ghost, the Black Knight and the Black Panther looked like their comic-book selves, where Mandarin, Blizzard, Whiplash and Crimson Dynamo had been unrecognizable, uninspired jumbles of indistinct armor. Breaking down every barrier that stood in its way, even those very barriers that were built into the show's basic concept, "Armored Adventures" has absolutely succeeded in being a worthy version of Iron Man, and a great superhero cartoon that easily outstrips its contemporary, "Wolverine and the X-Men," in my book. It's not quite "The Spectacular Spider-Man", but it's a country mile better than some of the other animated offerings Marvel has given us over the years. br / br /So, if you have any of the hang-ups about the show that I did when it began that have kept you from watching it, do yourself a favour and give it another try. The two-part pilot throws a lot of the concepts that you may have trouble with at you all at once, but it's all uphill from there. Definitely reccommended!

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