I've been skeptical about the Mandarin since rumors of the movie, and when I watched it, I kept thinking "this doesn't make sense" because his videos were too vague, his nationalistic iconography too confusing and muddled. Was he Asian or Middle Eastern? We're those Arab kids? I thought the whole thing looked rather shamefully sloppy... and it turned out, those were deliberate errors. Because it was all a facade. It was an interesting choice.

I'm really glad the trailers didn't spoil the glowing lava soldiers. Which, btw, we're insanely neat in terms of CGI.