Uncool.

Rating: 2/10 (10 June 2011)

X-Men: First Class pushes the envelope by further developing the present form of mainstream crap. The "phylosophical themes" featured by this talky little movie consist exclusively of stupid commonplace and the banal scenes illustrating the concept of separation and such run on kindergarten level. As a wise man once said: "If you have nothing to say then just shut the f+*k up". And yet again, not shown to you, like, visually, but talked about and explained verbally. Similar to Venezuelan soap opera. Let me just hand out a big f/ckyou here.
Characters are superficial and underdeveloped. Except of somewhat competent James McAvoy actors seem uninspired. Dialog matches daytime drama standards and worse. Superpowers are just not cool and the visual execution seriously lacks fantasy. The fact that almost everything you see here has already been done in the previous x-men movies and in much cooler ways lets me reshape into a question mark. Visual design also lacks fantasy, some of it is horrible. The work of the department responsible for the make-up effects is atrocious, Beast and Mystique look like muppets. Here goes the other f*ckyou.
Despite a Wolverine cameo logical connections to the former trilogy are missing completely. I didn't know this was a reboot but however, the question emerges, why rebooting something that has been decently executed before (let's forget about X3 for a minute here). Why destroying the former movies and make something even more remote to the comics? Surely it has to do with money, so let's bow before the gods of marketing.
People in the cinema seemed to like it, I guess they found it awesome and intelligent. I have no doubt that anti-intellectual sh-*/t like this will continue setting standards and increasingly shape upcoming movies in it's own image as box office numbers show it is well matched to the demands of it's audience.
2/10
Whatever talented, passionate people might have accomplished throughout movie-making history, most successful production will always be the WWF.