"What would you prefer, Yellow Spandex?"

Rating: 7/10 (29 July 2000)

Every once in a while Hollywood gets the Superhero genre right. They did in the first two Supes films, Batman #3, and now here in the X-Men. I liked most of the performances, thought the costuming and characters were played straight and remained true to their source material, and felt that director Singer respected the genre most of all. He had some $$ to work with and didn't waste a penny.
I enjoyed Wolverine most of all, as seems to be the consensus, but will also say that I Liked Halle Berry as Storm. She didn't have many lines sure(and in fact had a real tongue tier in one scene--oh sorry)but you hadda like how they showed Ororo in all her lightning bolt hurling glory.

Rogue and Cyclops were good too. So were the villains. As I stopped reading the Xmen in the early 80s, I can't say that I remembered Mystique or Sabretooth that much, but the rest I sure did. The XMen are a part of our culture, its nice to see that Bryan Singer has done them justice.
McKellan and Stewart were quite good too, by the way, I agree that Stewart's scenes seemed to be a little truncated, but what he does have, works.
Hopefully the next one will be longer and include likely villains ala the Sentinels or into more of the classic characters-but I agree with some here, you don't wanna jam in TOO many people, it's hard enough to get the ones already included straight or introed properly to the novice fans out there as it is.
So...I give this one *** outta ****, its good and they should be congratulated for turning in a solid effort which could easily have been Really awful.
Want proof? Go see Batman #2-attack of the Rocket-Launching Penguins or Batman#4-when Ah-nold Skates. GAG