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Rating: 3/10 (26 May 2006)

This movie was by far the worst Marvel movie mainly due to the director. How can someone that directed Rush Hour and Mariah Carey's Heartbreaker video direct a marvel movie after?
This movie was incredibly cheesy for the one liners and sound effects. Why was their bowling pin sounds when Juggernaut bashed through the gaurds? And when professor X says to storm,'you of all people should know how fast the weather can change.' OH MY GOD THAT WAS SOOOO WITTY! She controls the weather and xavier made a witty comment on her life and the weather. Oh man. That's HILARIOUS! After that HORRIBLE one liner I didn't pay attention to the others, which were plenty but, thank God, I don't remember them.
Why did they have shadow cat? she was never a popular character to begin with. Granted I did like her for a lot of her parts but a better character choice would have been to have Gambit. He was an actual xmen in the comics. Not an avenger. They could have still had the horrible love triangle cr*p but it would have made more since.
In x2 they did have Gambits name right above magneto's when Mystique looks up where he's located on Strykers computer. They could have easily made him one of the bad guys which would be better than not having him in there at all. When Mystique said 'he robbed 7 banks' i was so excited cuz I thought it MIGHT be him but no, it was multiple man in the truck.
Rouge is another part I hated, they could have so easily put her in the fight, drain someone's power (someone along the lines of Ms Marvel) completely and make millions of Xmen fans happy in the final battle scene. Given, that's not how it happened in the comics but with Mystique taken out... there's not really any other choice.
Another part that was horrible, Psylocke. They could have played her really well instead of giving her one scene where she just appeared in the hallway. Then Angel, who had NO part in this movie except being his father's reason to create the Cure, could have battled her which would make a intro to a X4. And where was Jubilee? From the beginning they should have made Jubilee the intro mutant instead of Rogue. That's how it was in the comics.
Colossus played NO role in this movie. It was really disappointing. Afterall, they could have made him fight Juggernaut and lose and THEN had kitty pryde do her little race thing. (oh one part that was awesome was when she sunk him into the ground and Juggernaut said something along the lines of 'do you know who i am? i'm Juggernaut you b*tch, that was awesome.)
The president was just plain retarded in this movie. Well, I guess that's pretty accurate. Maybe Bret was doing a shot at Bush in which case, he's not half bad.
There was blatant advertising for the new Mercedes GL which was just... again tacky.
The part that REALLY bugged me was that Pheonix/Jean Grey, killed cyclops and if you ever read the comics, he was the only reason she 'defeat' the Phoenix. Brian Singer did a great job in X2 building her but Brett Ratner did a HORRIBLE job portraying her. She was so inhuman looking. That would have been okay if she was the dark Phoenix but the Phoenix was suppose to be jean Grey, just with a big Ole fiery phoenix around her. THAT would have added to the end. And another thing, why the h*ll was she killed, and by Wolverine for that matter. Sure she can toss him around without even trying in the beginning when she's not p*ssed but when she's at her full power AND is p*ssed off, she can't prevent him from walking towards her. Come on, so somehow Wolverine beat her 'unbelievable' power? Well that's impressive.
the things I do have to give X3 dues for are, Storm actually has the correct eyes in the movie. They're FINALLY fully white. I did like that Callisto and Storm fought, I thought that was accurate but in the movie, the contents of that fight was WAY off base. Storm fought Callisto for Cyclops. And it was cool that Iceman finally reached his full potential i guess you could say. And lastly, Beast. Kelsey Grammar is most likely an Xmen fan apart from being a great actor. He was the only reason this movie got a 2 instead of a one.
Marvel is really starting to sell out now. I don't get why Stan lee is allowing this. they could have waited until Brian singer was done with Superman to direct this movie. Sure they it would have taken another year but at least the quality and continuity would be there. And if Marvel wants to sell out more they should just make an X5 and use the BMW x5. It's due for a model change and that would be a good way to debut it.
The only way Xmen could redeem itself is if they have an x4 and Cable, Bishop, and Forge are in the future and they need the power of the Phoenix and all the other telepaths, that they killed off in this movie, to defeat Apocalypse and travel back in time before they butchered all the xmen and make an impressive Xmen movie again. Then angel can play a vital role, the whole love thing with psylocke would have worked and the 3 most important xmen would be alive still.
Just a note: stay at the end after the credits. you'll see professor x isn't really dead. for those who don't get this, when he's talking to the students about ethics and putting one man mind that has terminal cancer into another, vegetated, body... well... there ya go.