Jesus, Stan, why did you put your name on it?

Rating: 4/10 (26 May 2006)

The whole movie, while entertaining, was a travesty to the rise of the phoenix . Scott had a grand total of about 6 lines, most of which where pertaining to Jean and whining about her I'm sure he'd have had better lines if he wouldn't have died in the first 25 minutes of the movie. If killing off a founding member, and leader of the Original Xmen, AFTER humiliating him, wasn't enough, (Prof. X said that Scott was a broken, hollow shell of a man after Jean died, which proverbially removed Cyclops' balls) they had to kill Prof. X himself. PROF. X DIES. HE DIES. The man which the Xmen is founded about dies, in the middle of the movie. If this weren't bad enough they do all of this whilst peppering the plot with cheesy one liners that seem to plague the summer box office. IF THAT weren't enough, they also took a shot at screwing with Rogue. Rouge WILLINGLY gives up her powers and takes the mutant serum to be with Iceman, whom she claims is only after her for her body beforehand, and with this knowledge, gives up her powers so that she can "touch" Bobby. Wolverine and Beast also take it upon themselves to rid Magneto of his powers with the serum, after they all agreed that it was unthinkable for such a component to exist and even worse to use it. and after Magneto is rendered powerless, HE even gets his own crappy clichÃ© one liner of "what have I done" after knowing, full well what the repercussions of his actions would be. I cant write any more. You cut me deep, Brett Ratner, you cut me deep.