i have be collect iron man comic since the early 70 and always enjoy the character who be far far from the average clean cut hero and his many and varied enemy . there have be no less than three attempt at an animated series for iron man and only the original and part of the second have ever do the character justice . so i be somewhat hopeful that this new version would be good . boy be i wrong . the dvd art be very misleading and present an image that be not the movie . fist off the good and what little there be . the art and animation be well draw and the writing and dialog be generally good and though with notable exception . character voice be very well select and each character be distinctive and well act . now for the bad . unfortunately the writer opt to totally screw around with both iron man origin and especially the mandarin . on top of that they decide to do iron man and his opponent all in cgi . bad cgi . this make them stand out almost as badly a live actor would in a cartoon . the cg work be often repetitive and glaring shortcut be take at time . the cg battle be clumsy a well and far enhance the fact that cg and line animation do not mix well . the movie would certainly have fare good have they opt to actually draw all the character . another problem be that iron man be in his traditional red and gold suit for all of one battle . and it not even the big fight at the end . all this drag the movie down and it never pick up . spoiler ( or warning ) may follow the movie start off with an interestingly unusual stop motion credit sequence of machinery and welding and gear . then we be introduce to what look like a chinese temple in the process of be restore and and prominent be a statue of what fan will recognize a the mandarin . thing go strangely and impede progress in restore the temple . oversee it be james rhodes and tony stark long time friend . seem they plan to actually raise the temple up from the earth and despite opposition by a group who insist that raise the temple will bring about a terrible disaster . rhodes be capture in a raid . stark and show in a hot tub with a lovely lady and be inform of the problem and set out to personally oversee the project and rescue his friend while in the background his father deal with board executive who be push to have tony remove . tony arrive only to have his armored escort ambush and blow to piece . tony later awaken mortally wound in the heart and a prisoner of the rebel . he be save only by quick action from rhodes and a scientist . eventually stark must build the prototype gray iron armor and make good an escape and but only after some loss of life . while with the rebel he meet a troubled girl name li mei and and the two fall in love . the temple be raise and four elemental being ( all do in cg ) appear and proceed to start collect hidden ring of power . stark and rhody find trouble back home but manage to confront the elementals without success in really stop them and first use the aquatic armor and then the more classic red and gold armor and finally everything return to the temple and stark be back in the bulky gray armor for a final showdown and a run in with what may be fin fang foom ( also in cg . ) here the story take a major twist a it turn out that the mandarin need a host body to manifest . this lead to a somewhat tragic final battle mar by the fact that the mandarin be little more than a ghost and isn not see till the last 5 minute of the movie . ugh . if you be an iron man fan then you will likely not enjoy this outing . and even non fan may well find the movie somewhat lack or not .