Nowhere near as good as the first two films. Doesn't deserve anything above 5 stars.

Rating: Null/10 (12 October 2011)

This is the first review I've written on IMDb. I felt compelled to write one after seeing the ludicrously high score this film gets.
I'm a 25 year old guy who enjoys action flicks like Transformers, X-Men, Iron Man and so on. I absolutely loved the first 2 X-Men films; I thought the first was the best, the second almost as good (amazing opening scene!). The third was a disappointment, which was expected due to the director change.
I quite enjoyed X-Men: Origins purely because Hugh Jackman plays Wolverine so well. I thought it was better than X-Men 3, but not as good as the first two.
This film though, First Class, absolutely does not deserve the score it's averaging at the moment, it's really not great. If you're a fan of superhero movies you should definitely watch it, for me it was a "fun ride" like X-Men: Origins, but really it's a soulless CGI flick with an extremely predictable plot and some terrible dialogue.
That said, there are some good performances, most notably that of 'Magneto'. There is also one scene - something of a flashback to the X-Men 2 intro - which is extremely cool and worth watching.
Overall I think this film deserves 5 / 10, however I'm giving it 1 in an attempt to counterbalance the ridiculously high score others have attributed to it!
Watch when you're in the mood for some chilled fun, but bear in mind it's not up to the standard of the originals, nor of Transformers.