Dark Phoenix!! Fastball special! Juggernaut! Beast!

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2006)

First, this movie was much better than I expected! Had a lot of tense emotional moments that caught me off guard - in a good way.
I'm not understanding why fans and norms alike aren't liking this film?!?! What more can be done? The good guys won. They paid a heavy price, but they won! Any fan of the books KNOWS that every member of X-Men has died at least ONCE and no death in the Marvel Universe is ever final....so why get upset becuz Professor X 'dies'?? I thought that was bad-azz!!
What I loved about the movie: Jean Grey obliterates Professor X! Wolverine/Colossus 'fastball special'!, Juggernaut, Storm toughens up, Magneto as always, Mystique, Beast!
I looooved watching Jean Grey go absolutely apes##t evil and damn near destroyed the world. In the story 'Dark Phoenix' she actually threatens to consume the entire galaxy! Of course, they had to downplay that for the movie.
My only major disappointment is the exclusion of GAMBIT!! Gambit, Gambit, Gambit!! How can producers bypass this extremely popular character altogether?? - but yet add such lame mutants like Toad or Artie!?? If Gambit were in this movie It would've been PERFECT!!!!!