Too dumb even for kids

Expectations are a bitch. I viewed the 1994 animated “Iron Man” series hoping for something similar in quality to the animated versions of “The X-Men” or “Spider Man” (“Batman” towers above them all, untouchable). After a couple of episodes, it became apparent that even the kid version of me wouldn’t have accepted this crap.

Sometimes it seems like the animators and editors just stopped trying. When Tony Stark is dressed in a tuxedo and suddenly has to put on the suit, footage is spliced in from an earlier episode with him in a very 1980s white suit. Continuity be damned! Add the horrible dialogue, and it’s a real mess.

Granted, the series does improve a bit in the second season, but that doesn’t mean much when starting from absolute dreck. The creators of this series could never have matched Jon Favreau’s films, but they could have at least put some effort into it. If you want more Iron Man, see the films and skip this shameless archival tie-in.