X-tremely Stupid!

Rating: Null/10 (16 July 2000)

Being a die-hard fan of the comic book genre, I feel compelled to voice my opinion on this move. Like all the classic popular comic books the transition to the big screen from the colorful pages of marvel comic was poorly done. The creators of this movie took too many "creative licenses" with the characters, making them almost unrecognizable to their comic book counter parts. They cast a group of children to play the parts of adults, and their selection of stars left much to be desired. The original X-men, were more then just a group of kids, with strange powers, they had definition and soul on the pages, you actually cared what happened to them in the comics. However this is not the case on the big screen.
Lets start off with Cyclops, he is portrayed as a mere child (immature at that) and not nearly as tall as he should have been (yes I know I'm nit picking but its my review so tuff).
Jean Grey since when did she become a Dr? And most of all when did she loose her telepathy?
Rouge, in the film she couldn't decide weather or not to hang on to that southern draw or give it up. From what I remember Rouge was born and raised in Louisiana. And was raised by Mystique who forced her to duel with Ms. Marvel and absorb her powers, making her virtually invulnerable, and be able to fly. None of that was explained in the movie.
Wolverine, probably the only one that they did get right. Although they should have bulked him up a bit more.
Storm by far the most underrated character in the move, (whose idea was it to get Halle Berry ?) again, they made her into a 2 dimensional charactes, they never touched on her claustrophobia, or her past.
All in all the move was exactly what I expected it to be, a cheap money making knock off attempt to bring the famous Marvel name to the big screen. (Did any one consult Stan Lee on this movie?)
The thing that p***ed me off the most was the costumes. So much so I'm not even going to get into it. (I'd write 5 pages on that alone.)
So for you hard core fans of the X-men, who think they are going to see a really good version of our Marvel heroes brought to the screen, all I can tell you is save your money.