If you haven’t seen the second trailer for Iron Man 2 take a quick look at it above and then come right back down here so we can all chat Iron Man 2 or as I now like to call it “the one film I HAVE to see this year”.

I didn’t really have any doubts or concerns about the Iron Man sequel, “essentially” the same cast and creative team that did such a great job on the first one and with Marvel’s now watchful eye looking on I guessed that they’d do fine and we’d have a pretty good sequel which like Spider-Man 2 would surpass the first.

In fairness too, I was basing this on very little other than my own gut feeling.  But with every still released by the studio showing the cast as they came together my confidence bolstered up a little more.  Then the teaser trailer was released and I suddenly felt a whole lot more comfortable that IM2 is going to be awesome.

Then they released that video above.

I am so excited about this film and I have complete and utter faith that it is going to be great based purely off that trailer.  I can see where they are going with it and some of the characters now make a little more sense in how they fit into the overall film.  Especially Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) whom I kept waiting to see a finished/complete costume of but now realise that it’s more than possible that we won’t.

The best thing about that trailer and therefore ultimately the movie is that they have already managed to convince me of the suitcase armour.  For those who don’t read the comic book series the suitcase armour was a solution to the problem of having Tony Stark out and about, get caught up in something and still be able to save the day.

It was a stretch of the imagination, the suit folded up neatly like fabric into a briefcase and then when removed it would straighten out into the proper armour.  Huge suspension of disbelief required, personally I just pretended not to notice.

But now thanks to that trailer I totally buy into the slimmed down portable armour wrapped up as a suitcase.  I mean I know it’s not possible but I’m willing to give it a free pass because it looks cool and at least goes halfway towards plausibility.

And no mention of Iron Man 2 is complete without saying how absolutely badass the War Machine armour looks.

So everyone, what do we think of the trailer?  Does this make you mad excited for the Iron Man sequel or does Scarlett Johansson (The Black Widow) make you cringe too much?*

Any concerns?

*I personally think she looks great in this and perfectly fits the character but I know she’s not everyone’s cup of tea…