IRON MAN 3 | FAMILY MOVIE REVIEW INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND KIDS

"IRON MAN 3"
(2013) (Robert Downey Jr. Gwyneth Paltrow) (PG-13)

QUICK TAKE:: Action/Adventure: A billionaire inventor/superhero finds his world turned upside down by a terrorist whose bombings and other actions are leading up to something really bad.

PLOT:

By now, most everyone knows that billionaire inventor and industrialist Tony Stark (ROBERT DOWNEY JR.) is the man behind the superhero Iron Man. Having recently saved the world from an alien invasion with the help of other superheroes, he's now entrenched in his Malibu mansion, tinkering with a number of Iron Man suits while his live-in girlfriend, Pepper Potts (GWYNETH PALTROW), runs Stark Industries where his former driver, Happy Hogan (JON FAVREAU), is now the head of security.

Happy casts a doubtful eye on Aldrich Killian (GUY PEARCE) and his right-hand man, Savin (JAMES BADGE DALE), when they show up wanting a meeting with Pepper. Having met Tony and his fling of the day, researcher Maya Hansen (REBECCA HALL), back in 1999, Aldrich would now like to team with Stark Industries in regards to his Extremis project that he believes will advance humankind to the next level. Pepper turns him down, and Happy trails Savin, only to be badly wounded in a bombing caused by a man who started to glow from the inside before exploding.

Believing this to be the work of a terrorist known as The Mandarin (BEN KINGSLEY) who's recently surfaced and broadcast his threats across the world, Tony publically announces his forthcoming revenge. That results in an all-out military assault on Tony's mansion, an attack he barely escapes, with his onboard Iron Man suit computer, Jarvis (voice of PAUL BETTANY), sending him flying across the country to Tennessee where a similar bombing occurred in the past.

With his Iron Man suit disabled, he must reinvent himself and starts to do so with the help of Harley (TY SIMPKINS), a local boy and fellow inventor. As the terrorist actions of The Mandarin continue, Tony gears up and -- with the help of Air Force Lt. Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes (DON CHEADLE) who suits up in his own set of armor known as War Machine/Iron Patriot -- tries to find the madman before it's too late.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?: If they're fans of the previous "Iron Man" movies or comic book related films in general, that will be a definite yes.

WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13: For sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout, and brief suggestive content.

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