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My first reaction to seeing anything of this series was that the theme music sounds like it was ripped off of a band from the late 80s, very pop-rock and very electronic. Now I didn’t know anything about Rooney, who perform the song, but from the sounds of it I expected they wear a lot of plaid pants and loafers, and I was picturing Flock of Seagulls haircuts. For more on this, see the special features for my reaction to the music video. Some of the music itself isn’t too bad after a second listen. Here, it’s the lyrics and the singing thereof that are most offensively non-poetic.

He’s a man on a mission,

In armor of high-tech ammunition.

Trapped on the edge of an endless game,

His teenage life will never be the same.

In a dangerous world he does all he can.

He’s Iron Man. Iron Man!

All it needs are a gaggle of female backup singers singing, “do, do-do, do-do, do-do-dee-do.” And frankly the worst part about the theme song is that it’s actually kind of catchy. I had it stuck in my head for a few hours today.

And oh, did I mention Iron Man isn’t really a man? He’s more Iron Teen. After I got over my dislike of the theme and accepted that Iron Man was a teenager in high school I just watched and gave the show a decent chance. The only other detractors were the series music is very simplistic limited in scope. It sounds like the budget for music is as limited as the budget for animation. Last week I reviewed the new Tinker Bell movie. And while it obviously had a somewhat limited animation budget, it had talented animators. Iron Man on the other hand has a very restricted animation budget, likely not the best animation programs and I question the talent of the animators especially when even the grasping and turning of a doorknob seems awkward and of limited animation and shading. Other movements in the show seem awkward and robot-like in their animation and the lip synch is pretty dreadful. This is where the limitations are most obvious. I don’t know if most is the blame of the animation programs, the limited budget or the limited talent of the animators, but I would suspect it’s a combination of all of the above.

The scripts themselves have some ho-hum plots and some eye-rolling worthy dialogue and it was difficult for me to relate or sympathize with this Tony Stark, a rich science genius with super powers essentially when he has the suit on. But now that I’ve spent the majority of this review telling you what’s wrong with the show let me say this, I ended up watching the 6 episodes on this disc and I don’t know why, but I wouldn’t mind watching more. I suppose there’s just something fun about the idea of the ability to put on a suit and fight crime and giant robots or mad men in other giant suits, not to mention to be able to fly.

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