A fine movie if it had contained the richness of 30 years of comic book magic

Rating: Null/10 (24 July 2000)

A fine movie if it had contained the richness of 30 years of comic book magic and soap opera sub-plot. This movie lacked the power and richness that only the comic book, heck the cartoon could purvey.
The mutant women were made small and ineffective, their powers and bodies, overshadowed by the mutant men. Marvel women are known for their voluptuous stature and strong loud voices. These woman were quiet. They took Rogue, a tall robust struggling poverty class southern bell with a heavy sensuous drawl and transmuted her into a middle-class teeny bopper.
Wolvie got all the lines and it seemed this movie was made to drown out the actors with little talent by giving the ones with talent (Jackman, Stewart, McKellan) all the lines. Even the special effects were limited to some very artful scenes, which contained those that were best suited for martial artist actors. Halle Berry got left behind it all (for obvious reasons) like a puffy cloud of silence with frosted lips. I was upset by the shallow Hollywood treatment of a storyline which could have made a longer movie with lots of Marvel-style flashbacks and mundane comedy creating a legacy for sequels to come.
Bring back Gambit!! He is Wolverines comedic foil and vice versa! Modernize the costumes and design all you want, but leave the writing to Stan Lee!