Iron Man 3 - Spoilers inside

[Dohc-WP]

Firstly this is probably 2nd best marvel movie in the cinematic universe (after iron man 1) (definately better than the avengers)

likes

The gazillion suits tony made
The references to what happened in the avengers
The plot twist involving mandarin
seeing yinsin in the 1999 flashback
rhody's expanded role (and a few comedic moments)
The air force one rescue
the comedic moments (there's quite a few good ones)
the ending wraps up the trilogy in a sense
there's a small post credit scene

Dislikes

the mark 42 fits pepper (how on earth did she fit in there with her boobs and all ? isnt the suit tailored to tony's body ?)
how are the suits able to operate without the arc reactor ?
The villian is kind of a cliche, been there done that
no black widow (they should have included her even in a cameo atleast)
i was expecting extremis armor.... considering the plotline
i never saw a stan lee cameo (did i miss it ?)
The first iron man seemed grounded in the real world in a sense but this one contains a bit of a fantasy element (volcanically hot villians that absorb bullets etc)

[S1ght]

i never saw a stan lee cameo (did i miss it ?)

You did indeed. He was a judge in that beauty pageant that held up a score of 10 (around about the time Tony got into the TV van)

[Wyvern]

Every thing you mentioned is valid, but I will admit that I loved this one even more than the first 2. Dunno why, this one just drew me in and completely blew me away. Yes it was a typical OTT movie. But I think it was my favorite one, it was very well done and the comedy in this one was just right.

[MalicE]

the mark 42 fits pepper (how on earth did she fit in there with her boobs and all ? isnt the suit tailored to tony's body ?)

Well, she is a bit flat chested
but the MK42 seems more flexible in that way, it fitted Killian as well....

how are the suits able to operate without the arc reactor ?

the suits have a built in power supply as well so it doesn't need Tony's chest piece to work, like the War Machine suit for example

He's been building them like that since the second movie if I remember correctly, after the Mark 3 almost killed him in the first movie