Why are they called "X-Men" when half of them are women?

Rating: Null/10 (25 September 2007)

Are they "X-Men" because they're ex-men (and ex-women), or because "X" is such a nifty little letter for sci-fi and comic-books? (Kind of like "Z".) All ye comic-book nerds reading this, feel free to answer me that one. I am soooo interested to find out.
Ever since Mystique entered the picture I found the movie a bit laughable. All along I was thinking why Magneto (I feel very silly using these names) simply doesn't send her to impersonate the Senator and end the anti-Mutant political propaganda. And voila: in the end Magneto finally realizes that the ol' switcheroo can be used to solve their problem with the politician, so she does exactly that. Yawn.
Oh, the ol' switcheroo... It's been milked dry - and then some - in "Star Trek" (and many others), so I thought how boring and stupid to have that blue woman changing bodies all the time. With her in his "arsenal", there is no logical reason Magneto (that dumb name again) shouldn't win this war in a flash, especially when faced against a pathetic pacifist, Patrick Stewart.
We're told that mutants have special powers. Fine. However, we were never told that they all have far superior IQs, which they must have because both Stewart and Magneto (oh...) are scientifically far ahead of the rest of mankind, what with their fancy little laboratories, Star-Wars-like spaceships, and other gadgets.
On the other hand, why nit-pick? I forget that this is just a dumb comic-book adaptation, unnecessarily trying to be dark.
I see a lot comedic potential in this. For example, Rogue. She stuns/comatoses/kills whomever she touches. She has three encounters with Wolfy, which kind of started to get funny by the time they touched each other on the Eiffel Tower... sorry, the Statue of Liberty.
All in all, watchable, but far from thrilling.
I found the messages of tolerance a little pathetic - in a damn kiddie comic-book action yarn.