Serious as well as enjoyable

Rating: Null/10 (17 April 2002)

Seemingly a cartoon played by real actors on big screen, X-MEN is a serious story of the two old men conflicting,together with their follower mutants,over liberation of estranged and segregated minority. Magneto try to free the mutantkind by terrorism and the domination over humankind. Xavier do it by education and enlightenment. This can be applied to regional,ethnical and religious conflicts we have around in the real world and make this film something special. And I noticed the mutants are described as thouse burdened with useless and almost funny 'gifts', such as Cyclops,too dangerous to see,and Rogue,too fatal to touch. And Mistyque is a symbol of strong desire to be accepted. Maybe I am taking too it seriously,but its allegorical awareness of the problems of the real world today saved me from feeling foolish,as is often with me after seeing a comic book of a film like Superman and Batman3,4. X-MEN may be un satisfactory for the fans of its comic version,I enjoyed it very much. I'm looking forward the sequels.X2 is going to be released in 2003?Oh make it 2002.