Shockingly bad

Rating: 1/10 (28 May 2006)

I couldn't believe what I was watching. This movie is the realization of all of the fears that people who both love(d) the books and are willing to accept that sometimes good comics make bad movies were afraid of. In addition to what I'd consider sub-par effects (shots of angel in flight looked like a bad joke), poor cinematography (far too many posed shots of groups of characters in formation) and poorly thought out ideas from the art department (really poor costuming on the villains... and what gave with magneto's suit in the beginning?) there was virtually no character development after the first two minutes of the movie and events more or less had nothing to do with one another. Somewhere someone decided to shirk their responsibility to any semblance of believability or emotional content in these movies and the result was a soup of meaningless, weird face off battle sequences and an all around disappointing ending. The high point of this film for me was when somebody in the theater with me gave a Quagmire-esquire "kinkity kinkity kinkity" during one of the out-of-left-field romantic sequences, and somehow I don't think that that one's gonna make the DVD release. I guess for a premise as out there as X-men was in the first place two good movies was a pretty impressive run. Let's forget this ever happened and keep our fingers crossed for Spiderman 3.