I took my twin boys, age 11 to see this movie and they had also seen the original. They got bored during the explanation scenes, but that is par for them. I enjoyed it immensely, although I would have liked to see Terrence Howard come back to play Rhodey. Don Cheadle does a good job, it just took me awhile to warm up to his style versus Terrence's. The movie was action packed and I lived the suspense of the search that Tony goes on through most of the movie. I would definitely recommend it to friends and look forward to the Avengers movie that will eventually make an appearance. For a sequel this was definitely on the mark.