Jun. 15, 2011 at 2:06pm with 1 note
X-men: First Class was awesome. And while it may offend the distinct tastes of some super geeks, it did a fairly decent job of introduce Prof. X, Mystique, Magneto, Beast, and various others. Set in and around the Cuban Missile Crisis, the movie dealt primarily with what the X-men comics deal with on a daily basis, human acceptance, self acceptance, and how to deal with change. And also explosions. A lot of explosions. The movie begins with some footage from the first X-men movie, of a child, Eric Lehnsherr, being separated from his family in a concentration camp in 1942 Nazi Germany. As he is pulled away, he freaks out and starts bending metal until he’s knocked cold. Then the new movie begins by showing this event catching the eye of a very creepy German Kevin Bacon, who, I have to say, was very good in this movie. Meanwhile, in America, we see a young and walking Charles Xavier meet a young, and very blue Mystique. Fast forward, and through a series of events surrounding Kevin Bacon’s character, Sebastien Shaw, eventually Charles and Eric must team up with a group of teens with unrefined powers to stop him. The movie is genuinely good…not great, but probably good enough to breath some life into the series after the very unfortunate X-men: Last Stand. Everyone does a good job as the characters that everyone has been reading about since the mid 60’s, and really, the only one I couldn’t enjoy was January Jones as Emma Frost, but it wasn’t enough to seriously harm any part of the movie. In the end, I hope they make another X-men movie. I know the material exists to make about a dozen more so they should just keep cranking them out. 3.5 floating submarines out of 5. Also…a couple of pleasant cameos.

X-men: First Class was awesome. And while it may offend the distinct tastes of some super geeks, it did a fairly decent job of introduce Prof. X, Mystique, Magneto, Beast, and various others. Set in and around the Cuban Missile Crisis, the movie dealt primarily with what the X-men comics deal with on a daily basis, human acceptance, self acceptance, and how to deal with change. And also explosions. A lot of explosions. The movie begins with some footage from the first X-men movie, of a child, Eric Lehnsherr, being separated from his family in a concentration camp in 1942 Nazi Germany. As he is pulled away, he freaks out and starts bending metal until he’s knocked cold. Then the new movie begins by showing this event catching the eye of a very creepy German Kevin Bacon, who, I have to say, was very good in this movie. Meanwhile, in America, we see a young and walking Charles Xavier meet a young, and very blue Mystique. Fast forward, and through a series of events surrounding Kevin Bacon’s character, Sebastien Shaw, eventually Charles and Eric must team up with a group of teens with unrefined powers to stop him. The movie is genuinely good…not great, but probably good enough to breath some life into the series after the very unfortunate X-men: Last Stand. Everyone does a good job as the characters that everyone has been reading about since the mid 60’s, and really, the only one I couldn’t enjoy was January Jones as Emma Frost, but it wasn’t enough to seriously harm any part of the movie. In the end, I hope they make another X-men movie. I know the material exists to make about a dozen more so they should just keep cranking them out. 3.5 floating submarines out of 5. Also…a couple of pleasant cameos.

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