Teen Wolf!

Rating: 8/10 (12 May 2009)

I am going to start out by saying Marvel makes some really bad films. I had a girlfriend tell me that if I ever took her to see something as horrible as Ghostrider again, she'd dump me. Lucky for me, I knew that bad movies weren't the issue, so it was not a serious loss when the relationship didn't work out.
That doesn't change the fact that Fan 4, both Hulks and other Marvel titles have almost completely turned me off from Marvel having the potential to deliver. Iron Man was good, but nothing to base your entire empire on. It was a huge hit, but I'm sorry, takes more than one big hit to win a game unless you've been in it long enough for your legacy to speak for itself.
I have to say out of the previous X-Men titles, 2 was the best and that was C- in my book. Last Stand was a flat out F and I was close to skipping this title all together.
I am going to give Wolverine a B+. Two things kept this title from A status and might prove to be the issue keeping Marvel from greatness. #1, Cheesy special effect. Some effects here were good and other looked like they were straight out of Roger Rabbit. Part of making the fantasy believable is looking at the screen and not have it be so obvious that it's a sound-stage or CGI. That completely takes you out of the fantasy and puts you back in the theater. This franchise is too important to cut corners in post production
#2, I'm really tired of seeing films that are dumbed down for the son I don't have. Wolverine is known for going berserk and it still hasn't happened! Wolvie did use his claws quite a bit, but for some reason slashing and stabbing produced no blood. I'm sorry, you don't save the world without mopping up the place with some bodies, even Star Wars did that.
On the other hand, the story was amazing and the acting was good. It's the technical side that kept this movie from being every bit the classic that Star Trek will go down as.