Awesome!

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2000)

I loved this film so much I saw it twice the weekend that it opened; I understand that alot of the people who are "die-hard" comic fans will nit-pick it until they turn blue in the face, but as a fan of the cartoon, with some other comic knowledge of the X-men, the changes/alterations that they made I think were appropriate (after all, most comic book story lines to alter depending on the new writer, and the interpretation to fit the story-look at the batman movies vs. The Dark Knight vs. Batman the animated series and, oh yeah, Adam West) As for everyone's complaints about Rogue: she was young (but not too young)she can't be flirty as she usually is until she's comfortable with herself (which was hinted at in the end) Anna Paquin was great, a helluva lot better than I had dreamed (as were Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, though she didn't talk much)and she's not super strong or able to fly until she sucks the powers out of another mutant whose powers permanently stay with her (originally, Rogue was bad and she killed Ms. Marvel, who had these powers, as I understand it)And everyone else was great. Jean Grey and Cyclops were always a little boring for me, so it fit. (that is, until the whole Phoenix thing) And Iceman will be back in full force by the next one, I'm sure (as will probably Jubilee) I did love it. My fave of the summer...so far. Can't wait to see what the directors cut will be like.