Amusing movie but not good

Rating: 6/10 (26 May 2006)

So I watched a midnight screening of this last night and well I left the movie with mixed feelings. It was nice to see the X-men on screen fighting with the Brotherhood. (However by X-men I mean Wolverine, Beast, Shadowcat, Iceman and Storm) As you all have heard by now ******SPOILER ALERT******** some idiot thought it would be a good idea to kill of Cyclops and Professor X in the early part of the movie. Who the hell runs this idea by whoever is in charge of approving things for Marvel and they said yes???? I have a bucket and a bat I would like to introduce them too. But even so I understand the Professor X death.....its mainly to show that Jean Gray has returned as the Phoenix and has no control. However they simply got rid of Cyclops because the actor decided to follow Bryan Singer and go help him with Superman......now thats just childish and immature to kill of an entire character simply because an actor decided to further his career and go make another superhero movie.
Anyways my rant being over the movie is decent, has really good special effects, had a few moments that brought a smile to my face and others where you get into the action....although another gripe I have is instead of bringing to the screen other characters we like they decide to bring in unknowns to help Magneto (he simply recruits at mutant church meetings) why not introduce Scarlett Witch, Quicksilver, re-invent Sabertooth to the way he is suppose to be, Blob, Avalanche hell we have had to stomach toad in the last two might as well keep him here, instead of adding porcupine man, a transvestite shock-wave type character, and a quicksilver female that can detect mutants.....
Same goes for the X-men it turns out that 6 X-men can hold off all of Magnetos forces....they should have had Nightcrawler return, KEPT Cyclops (at least till the final battle if they MUST kill him) brought in Havok, Gambit, Rogue (instead of simply writing her off give her super strength and flight already), Psyclocke etc.
They could have salvaged this movie easily since some of the plot is OK, but instead of seeing unknown mutants fighting on screen show us those we like from the comics brings this one down and it just seems like a missed opportunity.