Good, but not as Good

Rating: 5/10 (27 May 2006)

I was psyched just like EVERYONE else for this movie. I saw the midnight showing and then went back at 7. I got the same impression both times, more the second.
It's good, but not as good as the first two.
And it IS NOT Brett Ratner's fault as commonly thought. It is MOST definitely the writing. It is one of the campiest, cheesiest scripts I've seen for an A-list movie in the past few years. Especially, the scenes involving the President. Fortunately, you have three of the greatest actors in the biz today leading the charge: Sir Ian McKellan, Patrick Stuart, and Hugh Jackman (if you disagree with that last one, find his London Revival of "Oklahoma!" and watch it back to back with either of the first two X-Men films). If anyone else had been forced to try to act those lines, this movie would be a failure from the word 'go.'
All in all though, good movie.