Calm down my fellow Nerds

Rating: 8/10 (27 May 2006)

Everyone seems to be picking on everything done wrong with this movie and that it ruined the movie. However, if you watch closely and pay attention you can see from the end that this isn't the end of the franchise but a set up for a 4th movie as long as it does well in the Box Office. First off if you watch the end, the cure isn't 100% as Magneto was able to make the chess piece move slightly and also Xavier's not dead... stay til after the credits to see what I mean. If you know anything about the Phoenix she'll rise again. There's no conclusive evidence Scott is dead. So many of those things can be fixed in the sequel, which should be age of apocalypse. Things I didn't like included the adding of so many mutants with little character development, Rogue accepting the cure at all, the movie's too short and increasing Halle Berry's role in the movie.
These few missteps aside I think a some of the best points are Shadowcat, Iceman, the action scenes, and the writing (say what you will but they incorporated a really good plot not in depth but good). Kelsey Grammar as Beast was brilliant. Many of the characters just continued to develop in perfect step Magneto & Wolverine (yes Magneto will stop at nothing for his vision and Wolverine is emotionally driven not logically they are like that quit saying they're not).
Overall this was probably the second best one X-men United is far better and X-Men was to much set up for these two movies. Howeve, as long as this movie makes decent money the next movie should be green lit. Also Wolverine and Magneto are going to be great. But quit looking for all of the negative and take a broad view of the movie and you'll realize this movie is pretty damn good and the biggest problems are in what we imagine the movie to be.