Magneto's PRAISE SONG to hatred. Worst X-Men movie to-date.

Rating: 1/10 (10 June 2011)

This movie should had been named: "MAGNETO" or better; "Magneto's love story with hate".
ALL the previous Xmen films bespoke of friendship, camaraderie and humanity and the best positive traits associated with these basic qualities and these films contained the positive traits which define the Xmen... and what makes them attractive & engaging... for me at-least. "First Class" seriously lacks these good qualities. And it replaces all that was good, moral or engaging with the Xmen franchise with only one thing; Magneto's hate. Almost all characters in the movie, including the amazing, great character of Prof. Charles Xavier is, at the hands of the "hooh-haah" director Matthew Vaughn, reduced to "second class" citizens (yes, definitely, pun-intended) in order to allow the glorification of Magneto's HATE.
The "chutzpah" is in that the director does it, in plain sight, all the while asking us-- to applaud Magneto and to create in us, fans and viewers, a sense of wonder and awe about how "cool" Magneto's awful and cruel shenanigans throughout the movie, are.
Why is Magneto shown off in this movie as "the underdog hero"? And why is this done, while trampling on other and better characters of the Xmen franchise? Why is Prof. Xavier reduced, in the hands of Vaughn, to a mere sidekick and 2'nd grade character, whose only existence, according to Vaughn's movie, is to showcase and highlight how 'cool' and defiant Magneto's bottom-line cruelty, is-- in almost every single scene in which Prof.X and Magneto appear together??
I'm sure there are more knowledgeable and "professional" Xmen fans than me, out there, in the world. However, some things are very clear. No matter how good you're familiar with the Xmen or how many fan-stripes you have on your badges. Magneto is NOT the 'good'-cool-wow protagonist. He simply is NOT that. Prof. Xavier is NOT Magneto's sidekick-glorifier, whose sole purpose is to show how "cool" we should perceive (by Vaughn) Magneto as. Prof. X is so much... so much more than that.
And what's with Mystique? Why's she's Prof. X's girlfriend at first, and then she goes... how weird and ugly is that? What's that supposed to mean... I mean except that she's a... -- well, of a truly questionable character, you know?
Yes, I know what Vaughn is trying to get us convinced in; Magneto had "that" childhood, in the Shoah... Really? We knew that from the first shot in Singer's "Xmen". Does that condone the terrible things Lensher/Magneto does 'because' of it? Ask Vaughn; he knows. Vaughn says a big "yes". Oh... I guess that having that Shoah childhood allows Lensher to do EVERYTHING now, in the name of revenge.
In Singer's "Xmen" (2000), Singer trusts our judgment, to decide; whether we choose to view Magneto as a 'good guy'/'bad guy'. Vaughn doesn't "trouble" us with that issue; Vaughn is after "cool"... that's what he cares about.
For Vaughn, the issue Good versus evil turns to a 'second class citizen' (pun intended, again) when 'the COOL factor' enters the game. Vaughn is so eager to present Magneto as "cool" and as poised as James Bond or Bruce Wayne, that he simply throws the fact that this character is utterly cruel & immoral, right out the window. Why not? The applaud sign goes up after showing yet another of Magneto's beastiality.
I read a reviewer saying that this new movie doesn't need Wolverine. Why? Because, according to this big-shot reviewer, Magneto 'more than makes up' for Wolverine's absence... Really?? At the ending of 2000's "Xmen", Wolverine sacrifices his life, knowingly and intentionally, in order to save Rogue's life. That's what makes Wolverine--- Wolverine. That's what makes him a hero, in my book. Yes, it's cool; those adamantium claws, that no-hold bars attitude...But these do not a HERO make. What Wolverine does for Rogue to live, at the end of 2000's Xmen, at the expense of his own life... that's what a hero make.
Contrastingly, consider what Lensher/Magneto does 'for' his mutant comrades/friends in the end of "Xmen:FC"... -- Lensher disposes of his enemies (or more correctly; rivals) in a way that would Nazi sympathizers proud. --- He is responsible, even if in-directly, for the permanent maiming and crippling of the only man (Prof. X) who ever chose to try to persuade him to see beyond his selfish hate. --- He steals that's man sister/girlfriend (who was selfish throughout anyway... no big loss, but still), and eventually leaves that person abandoned, badly hurt and crippled permanently while he still goes out to pursue his still unsatisfied selfish goals for domination over those who 'don't see his way'. With friends like Lensher, who even needs enemies? Ask Prof. X. He learnt that the hard way.
Vaughn is so taken by admiration to Magneto, trying to pitch him off and out as no-less than the "new James Bond"... that he (Vaughn) even gives Magneto a "Bond. James Bond" kind of line in the ending of the film... which is not only plain ugly... but also very condescending.
Problem is: X-MEN was never, at it's very core and it's most fundamental message-- a one-man show (like Bond or 'solo' superheroes)!!! X-men was, forever, a 'team-effort' showcasing & celebrating the need to band together and be AS A TEAM one for the other. X-men in many of it's incarnations, celebrated unity and celebrated TRUE friendship & camaraderie. That is... until "hooh-haah" director Matthew Vaughn came along with "First Class" and stripped the Xmen of their most valuable and True badge of Honor.
And Vaughn replaced that Xmen badge of Honor and all it stood for- - for one thing alone: Magneto's praise song, sung by Magneto (and Vaughn), applauding and celebrating hatred.
By going against everything the Xmen ever stood for... this movie becomes the worst X-men movie to-date and a major disappointment.