XMen-Mutants, Mutations Just Awful 1/2*

Rating: 1/10 (1 September 2007)

Ridiculous Hugh Jackman vehicle. You can't laugh or cry. That's how bad this one is.
Aren't Oscar winners Halle Berry and Anna Paquin able to find better material than this? I thought that Famke Johnson had promise. If she keeps up with trite like this, forget it. At the end, she flies in the air as if she is Mary Poppins. Miss Johnson, you are no Mary.
This off-the-wall film deals with mutants who supposedly have been accepted by society. Nonetheless, a pharmaceutical concern had come up with a cure. Of course, the owner of the concern has a mutant for a son. Naturally, there is divisiveness in the mutant group. Part of the group, led by Patrick Stewart, want accommodation with the rest of the world. Stewart leads students in a gifted program. No gifted student would participate in a film as awful as this. Ian McKellen is up to his old tricks as the evil mutant with quite a ghastly crew.
The special effects here are great. See a house torn up and the Golden Gate Bridge demolished as Alcatraz is invaded. Yet, the effects can't make up for bad script writing in this totally idiotic film. Is it any wonder why our youths react to the world they live in so violently when they view junk like this?