wisecrackery

Your daily dose of yeti wisecrackery is available today at The Morning News.

Smarm and wisecrackery will resume on Monday.

Mr. Bell's adaptation plucks the major events from the narrative, and his language treads a colorful path: a mixture of fanciful poetics, glib wisecrackery and an occasional Anglo-Saxon obscenity that lends a contemporary tint to things.

After opening with a few moments of Tony Stark wisecrackery (all of which was featured in the trailer), the industrialist is taken hostage by a gang of terrorists, confined to a cave, and given to understand that his days are numbered.