X-Men: First Class Movie Review
X-Men: First Class
It is undoubtedly a tune of excitement, or at least curiosity, for fans of the X-Men: First Class characters to see what turns the movie franchise takes with origin stories. As expected, massive liberties are taken with every mutant and while some are clever and others contrived, a few are reworked from the ground up to the point that they’re recognizable only by name to their comic book counterparts X-Men: First Class. It may be admirable to blend mutant lore into world history to fabricate realism, but is battling Nazis and contending with the Cuban Missile Crisis the best way to do so? Perhaps it’s preferable to create more plausible explanations for certain character traits (having an angry space alien crush Professor X’s legs might not be palatable for today’s audiences), but tampering with historical events is always a little difficult to accept. Even excusing all such alterations in the space-time continuum, the oftentimes explosive action sequences can’t mask the silliness and pointlessness of many of the newly introduced mutants. We’re talking to you, dragonfly girl and sonar boy. more...