The 12 Things Wrong With X-Men: First Class

Rating: 7/10 (16 September 2011)

First of all let me say that X-Men First Class is not a bad X-Men movie...IF it was the first X-Men movie made. If FC had been made back in 2000 (when the first X-Men was released) then this would have set the bar so high for comic book movies that what we have been lucky to see over the last two years and coming up next year would have been what we had back in 2002-2006. Unfortunately, this is the fifth X-Men movie and it is not a reboot, nor is it a stand-alone movie. That is where Fox screwed up. They should have used this opportunity to relaunch the film franchise. I get that they still have Hugh Jackman under contract for at least one more movie as Wolverine, but they could have left him out of this. I only watched this movie for research, but when I finally decided to watch it I left all of my comic book knowledge at the beginning of the movie to give it an objective chance, I even ignored the other movies as much as I could while watching it.
X-Men movie timeline for reference: X-Men First Class takes place in 1962 before, during, and after the Cuban Missile Crisis. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is set sometime between 1969-1978 (estimating off the top of my head) X-Men takes place in the year 2000 or later X-Men 2&3 are a 2-3 years after X-Men
1. Charles Xavier (Professor X) met Raven Darkholme (Mystique) when he was child and they grew up as siblings. This is bull crap because they act like they hate each other and know very little about each other in the other X-Men movies.
2. Emma Frost appears to be between the ages of 20-26. Emma Frost appeared in XMO Wolverine and she looked like she was 17 years old, MAX. XMO Wolverine DEFINITELY takes place after First Class, so she must have aged backwards then and has no idea who Xavier is?
3. Xavier & Magneto try to recruit Wolverine, that's wrong because in the other movies Wolverine has no clue who Xavier or Magneto are and they don't show that they recognize him either. The way Wolverine turns them down in First Class is perfect, you won't forget it so why do they?
4. Cyclops makes a very brief cameo, he looks like he is between 10-12 years old. In XMO Wolverine he appears to be 16-17 at the most. And if you follow the timeline from FC to XM Cyclops should be somewhere between 40-50 years old. That is just what is wrong with the movie, if you compare it to the comics, Havok is Cyclops YOUNGER brother but according to FC Havok is between 17-21.
5. As mentioned above, Havok is too old to fit the continuity of the comics. Let's ignore that like I did while watching this movie...His powers shouldn't be red and his powers should come out of his arms. In all of the other X-Men movies, Havok is not mentioned ONE TIME in dialogue.
6. Beast hardly does anything (which is fine because he is a pacifist), but he turns blue and furry in this movie. In X-Men 1 or 2 he is shown as Hank McCoy and he is human on television. But then he is blue and furry again in X-Men 3? Also, he does not turn blue because of Mystique. Even though they don't say that, if you are an average ignorant movie-goer then you will probably get that from this movie.
7. Storm makes a brief appearance, seeming to be between 11-13, making her 45-55 in the other X-Men movies. (Damn, I didn't know Halle Berry was so old! lol)
8. Cerebro (the machine Xavier uses to find mutants) is created by Xavier and Magneto in the other movies, BUT in First Class the government has already used Beast to create a bare-bones version. Not to mention that Xavier and Magneto part ways at the end of the movie so how does Magneto even help with the upgraded version?
9. Moira MacTaggert did not meet Xavier while she was a government agent (which she never was), they were college sweethearts.
10. Magneto's helmet: In the original X-Men movies, he says HE made it to keep Xavier out. In First Class he takes it from someone after killing him, but that person had the Russians make him the helmet. The final helmet that Magneto wears is bad friggin ass. It is really close to the comic version and I personally love it!
11. Angel: Instead of using a male with angel wings they cast a woman as a stripper with pixie wings and called her Angel.
12. The government finds out about mutants in First Class but in X-Men they have no clue what a mutant is.
As I said, this is probably the best X-Men movie made, if it were the first one in a franchise. I boycotted this move because it came out on my birthday and I only knew about two of these inaccuracies.