Totally agree. Ben Kingsley is awesome, and Iron Man III was a ton of fun, although I thought Killian the bad guy was kinda lame, to be honest. Yeah, he's super powerful and demented and all the things a bad guy should be, but maybe that was the problem. He was such a cliché. Trevor, the fake Mandarin (I think Stark actually calls him "Ringo" at one point) was a riot. Even super-Pepper was pretty cool. I kinda have a thing for Gwyneth though, and she was hot in this (no pun intended).
And it was interesting seeing Tony Stark mostly being just Tony Stark, not Iron Man.