I got dragged to this film and ended up actually liking it!

Rating: Null/10 (20 August 2000)

First of all, I must say that I am a female who is totally NOT into comics of any sort. Therefore, when my husband talked me into going to see this movie, I was extremely skeptical. I expected it to be another one of those movies where if you weren't on the "inside" and hadn't read the comic books (yes, I was dragged to see "Spawn" and I had no clue what was going on) that you would just be bored out of your mind for about 2 hours.
Boy was I surprised about X-Men. I must say that this film was written very well. You really needn't have ever read the comics to fully understand the plot of the movie. Sure, there were a couple of inside jokes (eg. the yellow spandex jumpsuit reference, which I had explained to me at a later time), however, I'm sure that those were for the purpose of entertaining the comic book fans and in no way did they detract from the plot.
I thought that the special effects were fabulous and that the characters were all very personable. Also, in the character of Wolverine, just enough humor was added to make it enjoyable to watch. Therefore, to all the females out there who are dreading the possibility of being dragged to this film - don't. It really was pretty good!