I know that there were some people who just hated Iron Man 3 but I don't understand why. The overall consensus is it was a good movie, not the best Marvel movie by any stretch but not bad. In fact, for me, it's about on par with this one, though they have completely different flaws.
Iron Man 2 was a train wreck and everyone knew it including Mickey Rourke, RDJr and Jon Favreau... It suffered from serious micromanagement, and Favreau wasn't allowed to make the movie he wanted. I feel like Whedon had to deal with some of the same issues here (not perhaps to the same extent but having to "fit things in" for the sake of the greater arc) and this results in the movie feeling a bit overstuffed. He was able to keep most of the balls in the air though, even if sometimes a bit clumsily, so it doesn't go the route of Favreau's movie.
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