Unexceptional, but distracting

Rating: 5/10 (29 June 2006)

Saw this movie at the drive ins..... it was a good distracting couple of hours, but really nothing too memorable.
Stewart seems to be overshadowed by McKellan, who's having a great time hamming up his character. I thought they dealt with his demise too easily in the final battle, and that in general the ending feels anti-climactic. I didn't feel that it was real for some reason when they were moving the Golden Gate Bridge.... it was just a little too elaborate an effect to feel real. A lot of the dimensions that were in the characters in the earlier film (I didn't see X2) are missing as well.
Kelsey Grammar acquits himself well as the blue beast. Not sure how this one works for fans of the comics or the series, but I thought it fell far short of the first film.