Oh My Stars & Garters: An alternate Universe?

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2006)

Scott Summers? Charles Xavier?? What has Marvel come to in doing such murder??? DC is not that big a threat movie-wise yet...
Comics-wise, DC is making big strides, but on the silver screen, Marvel still pops claws! This film is supposed to tie all three together, yet there were two intimations that the big boys of Mutantdom will host an X4...
Both clues were at the end of the movie - Charles' spirit seems to be literally living on and Magneto appears to be taking extra doses of One-A-Day With Iron, LOL!
If I picked at the non-comic elements of this movie, I would take as much time as the Original and Uncanny X-Men took to develop! Original X-Men were about late 60's and the Uncanny mutant heroes were from the mid-70's...
The scenes with Logan and Hank McCoy were too short and too tame, they never really cut loose - but it was funny when Logan asked Hank why fight if he's a diplomat and Hank was seeking to retort with a spiffy salvo and lost it in the midst of punctuating himself with a bite, kick or cuff!
The Angel is also another reason X4 cannot be far behind as he was here too short, and no redux of Nightcrawler? Bamf!!!
Storm was played up better here and I was still shocked at how Cyclops was made dust by Jean, it was as if she was a neo-Proteous (son of Moira MacTaggart, he was one sick and powerful puppy in the comics, oops! I did it again...)??
The Morlocks that Callisto (white in the comics and black in the film, aw shaddup already) was in charge of was sidelined and Madrox The Multiple Man was villainised when he really started as a Hero...
But, as difficult as it was, if you treat the tale as a great sci-fi allegory against discrimination in any form and it had very well-executed SFX then you did get quite a bit of bang for the buck - if you read the comics like me? Take along a salt shaker, but if you are new? "Snikt!" those adamantiums and get ready for a fastball special!