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Rating: Null/10 (11 September 2011)

X-Men: First Up
For all their complaining about equal rights, why don't the X-Men ride back in coach with the rest of us?
And while this action movie isn't about the economic divide on aircraft, it is about the segregation of the genetically gifted.
In 1962, the Hellfire Club (Kevin Bacon, January Jones, Jason Flemyng) puts in place a plan to expedite the Cuban Missile Crisis.
To thwart their scheme, the CIA hires mutant telepathic Xavier (James McAvoy) to locate them.
But to defeat them, he and his metal-manipulating mate (Michael Fassbender) must first assemble their own team (Jennifer Lawrence, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Till).
While its modish modification of the Marvel Comics mutants is superior to previous instalments, the friendship between the passive professor and the megalomaniac Magneto is ultimately ignored, as is comic book and film franchise continuity.
As for the worst mutant power: the ability to look like a mutant. (Yellow Light)