It’s firmly blockbuster season in the states, as Iron Man opens on well over 4000 screens; with Made of Honor and Son on Rambow also opening in counterprogramming moves by rival studios, hoping to get business from people who couldn’t get into sold out screenings of Iron Man. The reviewers have eaten up the Robert Downey Jnr. starring comic book adaption, and it’s officially the best reviewed film of the year, garnering a staggeringly positive 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Scribes are falling over themselves to praise Downey and the film’s director Jon Favreau; with Peter Travers at Rolling Stone spewing "Iron Man kicks off summer on a blazing high note and practically dares the competition to measure up"; while virtually everyone else agreed as Variety called it an "expansively entertaining special effects extravaganza" and The Chicago Sun-Times "great escapism". It wasn’t as good news for the Patrick Dempsey starring romantic comedy Made of Honor, which has been slaughtered by critics. The Village Voice pretty much summed up the consensus amongst scribes when it said "director Paul Weiland and the three (!) screenwriters it took to boil down thousands of bad movies into 101 minutes haven't provided this one with a single original thought". Son of Rambow garnered more than respectable notices though, with Variety calling it "bright and witty"
