A total betrayal of comic fans

Rating: 4/10 (13 June 2020)

The movie took elements of the X-Men and rewrote them into a cringeworthy movie. So much of it is not in the comics prior to the release of the movie, and then it contaminated the comics themselves - bad on Marvel. Playing up the Wolverine-Jean romantic tension, stripping Rogue of her villainous history with Carol Danvers (and her super strength and flight ability), making Bobby Drake a student of Scott and Jean, giving Toad a prehensile tongue and adhesive spitting... beside that, the immensely dorky helmet they made Ian McKellen wear, and making Wolverine pretty much the center of attention all were a Hollywood sales job and a betrayal of true fans.