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Iron Man 2 (2010)

Adventure, Action, Science Fiction • 2h 4m

Director: Jon Favreau

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, Clark Gregg, John Slattery, Garry Shandling, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara, Leslie Bibb, Jon Favreau, Christiane Amanpour, Philippe Bergeron, James Bethea, Michael Bruno, Kate Clark, Luminita Docan, François Duhamel, Larry Ellison, Adam Goldstein, Tim Guinee, Eric L. Haney, Ali Khan, Evgeniy Lazarev, Stan Lee, Isaiah Guyman Martin IV, Helena Mattsson, Keith Middlebrook, Anya Monzikova, Margy Moore, Olivia Munn, Elon Musk, Bill O'Reilly, Alejandro Patiño, Davin Ransom, Karim Saleh, Brian Schaeffer, Phillipe Simon, Jack White, Melanie Brown, Krystal Ellsworth, Victoria Gracie, Gina Cantrell, Renee Herlocker, Jill Ann Pineda-Arnold, Sandy Colton, Annika Ihnat, Jenny Robinson, Lindsay Dennis, Jennifer D. Johnson, Lindsay Rosenberg, Hannah Douglass, Brooke Long, Rachele Brooke Smith, Nadine Ellis, Kylette Zamora, Ayelet Ben-Shahar, John Ceallach, Katie Cleary, Ajarae Coleman, Timothy 'TJ' James Driscoll, Jasmine Dustin, Sam Felman, Shakira Vanise Gamble, Paul Grace, Mark Kubr, Cameron Lee, Mathew Lorenceau, Christopher Maleki, Bryan McCoy, Tony Nevada, Allison Ochmanek, Nicolas Pajon, Steven James Price, Tanoai Reed, Peter Trenholm Smith, Doug Swander, Peter Sebastian Wrobel, Nick W. Nicholson, Kristin Quick, Matt McColm, Seth Green, Max Favreau

Disney 4K Blu-ray or Paramount Blu-ray for non-DNR version

Best English-friendly & video release · updated 11 months ago

Overview

With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.

Release details

Best Audio Release

DTS-HD 5.1 from the Paramount Blu-ray

DTS-HD 5.1 from the Paramount Blu-ray is not Atmoused

Length
124 mins
Type
Movie
Alternative Titles
Iron Man II, Marvel Studios' Iron Man 2

Part of Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Director: Louis Leterrier

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

France M6 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Vision, but is inferior with more washed out colors and inferior encoding plus no hardcoded subtitles for the Portuguese language parts

comparison

Best Audio:

Universal Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Universal Blu-ray has the original DTS-HD 5.1

For the 7.1 remix, the DTS-X of the Universal is clipped on the front speakers while the Atmos of the M6 is a very tame mixdown.

Director: Jon Favreau

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray (OOP France M6 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Vision)
IMAX version: Disney+ Streaming

DNR free: Paramount Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Paramount Blu-ray's TrueHD 5.1

Audio Notes:

Paramount Blu-ray's TrueHD 5.1 is not Atmoused

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray or Paramount Blu-ray for non-DNR version

Best Audio:

DTS HD-7.1 from the Paramount Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

DTS HD-7.1 from the Paramount Blu-ray is not Atmoused

Director: Joe Johnston

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray or Paramount Blu-ray for non-DNR version

Best Audio:

DTS-HD 7.1 from Paramount Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

DTS-HD 7.1 from Paramount Blu-ray is not Atmoused

Director: Joss Whedon

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Director: Shane Black

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray for non-DNR version

Director: Alan Taylor

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray for non-DNR version

Best Audio:

DTS-HD 7.1 from Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

DTS-HD 7.1 from Blu-ray is not Atmoused

Director: James Gunn

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

IMAX Version: Disney+ Streaming

Best Audio:

DTS HD 7.1 from Disney Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

DTS HD 7.1 from Disney Blu-ray is not Atmoused

Directors: Joe Russo & Anthony Russo

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray or Disney Blu-ray for non-DNR version

Director: Joss Whedon

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

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Director: Jon Favreau

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original 5.1 Mix: UK Momentum Pictures DVD

Director: Jon Favreau

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Director: Jon Favreau

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Universal Blu-ray with both cuts, Kino Lorber Blu-ray (extended cut only) included in the disappointing 4K Blu-ray and International Paramount Blu-ray (both Theatrical and Extended Blu-rays in different countries) have similar encoding.

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray disappointing review

Director: Jon Favreau

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

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Director: Alex Proyas

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray (30th anniv.)

Director: Steven Spielberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Paramount Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray Dec 15th

Video Notes:

US Paramount Blu-ray > International WB Blu-ray

Director: Tony Scott

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

70mm 6-track mix in 5.1: Paramount THX LaserDisc

Dolby Stereo mix in 2.0: Paramount THX LaserDisc

Additional Info:

The 70mm 6-track mix has a higher bitrate on the Paramount 1998 DVD, but is more limited than on the THX LaserDisc The Paramount 1998 DVD also has open matte versions in fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 instead of the theatrical aspect ratio of 2.39:1, but the 2.00:1 widescreen presentation is non-anamorphic. The THX LaserDisc is available in both fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 variants.

Director: Terrence Malick

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Lovely underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion but encode is sadly low-pass filtered by Pixelogic, and even then, the encode is still less than ideal. Still easily obliterates any prior disc release, but certainly wouldn't hurt to have a UK or German label take a crack at this same master.

Best Audio:

1999 Paramount DVD

Director: Peter Faiman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD

International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray

Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray, censored but good encoding

Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

US Paramount 4K Blu-ray, is the International US Cut and not the Encore Cut

Best Audio:

Australia Cut: Laserdisc

Additional Info:

The film exists in three versions:
- the original Australian cut (~104 minutes at 24fps/~100 minutes at 25fps);
- the American/international version (~98 minutes at 24fps/~94 minutes at 25fps) trimming some exposition in the Outback first half of the film and some shorter extensions of a few seconds in the New York section, altering some of the dialogue – including censoring a "fuck" to "screw" – but featuring one additional dialogue extension not in the Australian version (a comparison of the two cuts can be found at Movie Censorship);
- the Australian Encore Cut (~95 minutes at 24fps/~91 minutes at 25fps) which uses the international version source so it already has those alterations but also removes approximately three minutes consisting of parts of two scenes featuring Mick grabbing the crotch of a cross-dressing prostitute and a later sequence when he does the same thing at a party to a woman with a deep voice (a comparison of the international version and the Encore Cut can be found at Movie Censorship).

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D version: Paramount Blu-ray

3D version: Paramount 3D Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray on October 26 2026

Director: Billy Wilder

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Old Paramount Blu-ray is arguably a solid alternative choice

Best Audio:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono

Audio Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono is different version of the Blu-ray mono from the same old 2000 DVD transfer.

Additional Info:

The 5.1 remix on the 4K Blu-ray is an appalling remix done by going wild with artificially generated stems from Park Road Post who were given the surviving mono to separate. The experience is jarring and fidelity to original mix in terms of level balance, directionality and impact is nonexistent. Not only does this sound painfully weird, but the Paramount mixers then did whatever they wanted in terms of LFE, sound pans and effect changes.
The original mono mix was not restored and still needs it badly. The 4K master is filled with frozen grain examples coming and going plus some HDR issues in addition to the usual Paramount problems. It is simultaneously better and worse than the Blu-ray master.

Director: Robert Altman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release

Director: Richard Linklater

4K · Solid

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Germany Blu-ray has English audio 

Germany Blu-ray is part of a 3-film box set like the Criterion but by StudioCanal 

Director: Michael Bay

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Original AR: Paramount 4K Blu-ray

IMAX AR: Paramount 3D Blu-ray

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