Awesome and yet rather pathetic

Rating: 9/10 (28 May 2006)

I mean come on, they're so hanging on for a sequel. Every cast member says its not gonna happen but with an ending like that it would be a crime not to have a sequel. Then again, the plot line is deflated enough, so maybe they just made the park ending and the bedside ending as a reason for fans to hope who wanted to rip their hair out when Rogue, Magneto, and Mystique get stripped of their powers and Jean, Scott, and Prof X get killed. After all, the whole theme of the first movie was hope, so I think they ended it the way they did in a desperate attempt to bring the theme full-circle. Anyone who has seen the movie all the way to the end, past the credits, knows what I'm talking about. Anyone who hasn't, pay the money and go see the movie again. Brett Ratner, in my opinion, is trying to soften the blow to his fans about the whole "Cure" plot line. But for god sake, if you're going to have Prof X in another body and Magneto tip over a metal chess piece in the ending shot, then when Rogue touches Bobby he should fall over on the ground in pain and she should be like "Ha, that's for flirting with Kitty!" Overall, A+ special effects, but the movie needed to be longer if they wanted to put in those new characters and develop them properly and do them justice. Juggernaut gets a one line intro, how retarded is that. And the whole "cure" part of the script was just lame. If you're gonna put and end to the X-men, you don't do it by stripping their powers. It's a huge let down to comic book fans everywhere. The whole plot other than "the cure" basically revolves around Wolverine and Pheonix/Jean. Xavier and Cyclops get killed off too early to have any real substance in the story. Bobby and Rogue barely get two words in together, and the only verbal transaction between Wolverine and Rouge is like 2 seconds long. The only reason it gets a 9 out of 10 from me is because I loved the first two movies, the comic book series in general, and because the script backed itself into a corner but turned out decently in spite of all the writing challenges.