Iron Man 3
Stream on Disney+
Runtime: 2 Hours 10 Minutes
Rated PG-13
After saving the world with the Avengers, Tony is suffering from PTSD symptoms and trying to figure out a way to protect those he loves and the world. When a terrorist known as the Mandarin starts blowing up landmarks and killing people, Tony finds himself, by his own hand, in the middle of the fight. Can he protect his friends and loved ones and unravel the mystery of the Mandarin?
Themes:
Iron Man, terrorism, patriotism, sleep, PTSD, anxiety, Stark Industries, Extremis, Advanced Ideas Mechanics, revenge, love, protecting the people you love, selfishness, apologies, panic attacks, innovation, creativity, limited edition Dora the Explorer watches, intelligence, and Iron Patriot.
Language:
A*s - 3 B*tch - 1 D*mn - 6 D*ck - 1 Hell - 6 P*ss - 1 P*ssy - 1 Religious Exclamations - 10
Stuff to be aware of:
Grossness - A man who has extremis in him starts to glow and change colors. Then he explodes. After the explosion another man who lost his foot in the explosion is seen growing back his foot and toes. The man’s foot looks kind of like explosive lava so when the parts grow back, it is cgi that kind of looks like lava. It isn’t gruesome or bloody. Everyone with Extremis glows and looks kind of like lava. Tony chops off a man’s arm and it glows with the Extremis inside. The arm is then seen melting through the floor. After being blown up a man with Extremis is still alive and starts to heal. He is a cgi lava looking monster and could be scary to younger viewers.
Sexual - There are several sexual remarks and jokes which are standard fair for Iron Man. Some include “it’s pinchy in the gooey area,” “wasn’t "a blond with a big rack,” “a man named hoe,” “please don’t tell me there is a twelve year old kid waiting in the car,” and “I’m going to take a shower, and you’re going to join me.” At a party tony blows on a noise maker and it is in a joking way to beep out a bad word for sex. There is one scene where Tony is tied up and a girl tells him, “its just like old times” in which Tony makes a joke about zipties.
A woman is seen in her underwear from behind. It is implied that Tony sleeps with her.” A man kisses Pepper Potts, even though the man knows Pepper is with Tony. There is a brief scene with a beauty pageant with multiple women in bikinis. There are two girls that are uncovered by Tony in a bed. The two girls are wearing lingerie. Later, two women in bikinis are seen playing ping pong. In the last fight scene Pepper is just in a workout bra type top.
Violence - There is a theme of terrorism in this movie. There are videos with people being held hostage and gunned down. There is a scarecrow that is dressed in a suit and set on fire. Multiple helicopters fire missiles into Tony’s mansion, during this scene Tony gets pretty beat up, has blood on his face, and get drug under water. A man is held hostage by the Mandalorian and is shot in the head. You hear the shot, but do not see the man get shot.
A woman with Extremis has glowing eyes and beats up several people, shoots a person, and burns people including Tony. She starts out glowing and looking like lava, but then before she dies (and ends up hanging over power lines) starts to look like fire and ashes. Several people glow and explode. One woman who only has one arm gets injected with Extremis and an arm grows back in a lava/fire-ish looking way.
A man breaks another man’s neck from behind. A female main character is shot on screen and falls over. Multiple people fall out of an airplane, but are rescued. A man with Extremis get a hole shot through his chest by Iron Man. The hole is seen. A man is strung up by his hands in the Iron Patriot suit. There are multiple gun fights and the final battle has multiple Iron Man suits of armor fighting Extremis soldiers, which is intense. Pepper is seen falling from very high into an explosion.
Other - Tony goes into a bar where multiple people are drinking. There is a scene with a woman in a revealing dress that seems to be high. A hookah and illegal drug items are seen lying around in some scenes. The Mandarin talks about being a drug addict and how his boss gives him all the illegal drugs he wants. A man mentions that he considered suicide and he is seen standing on a roof.
A man breathes fire. A joke is made after he does.
Overall:
Seeing It With Your Family
This one felt like it had more language, but I have never counted all the curse words in an Iron Man movie to compare them. This one could be a bit scarier than the others due to the bad guys not being robots and having the Extremis conditions mentioned above.
What I Thought
This was the first MCU movie released after Avengers and when it came out I didn’t care for it much. It felt odd to build towards Avengers and just have Iron Man in a movie by himself. I also didn’t like what they did with the Mandarin. Watching it again and knowing everything that comes after I appreciate Iron Man 3 more now. It it not my favorite Iron Man (the first one is) and probably lower on the list with all the MCU movies, but I did enjoy watching it years later. I think it helped that the “Hail to the King” one-shot showed us that the real Mandarin is still out there.