The Latest Comic Book Movie

Rating: Null/10 (2 May 2003)

A serviceable episode in a series. Honestly, though, if it weren't for my long standing for the X-Men mythos (started collecting the comics in 1975), I doubt if I would have liked it very much.
Yes, at the heart of it, there is the Main Message of X-Men about prejudice, tolerance and the like. As much as part of the mythos, however, has always been the idea of sacrifice, that the X-Men do what they do because they can, great power brings with it great responsibility, yadda, yadda, yadda. The movie tries very hard to include that as well, and boy, I sure wish it would have succeeded better.
Of course, most of the semi-literate, attention deficit crowd are there to see the 'splosions and Wolverine skewer bad guys with his claws, so I guess I should be grateful that there anything more than that at all.
Too bad this isn't a TV series. It would work a lot better if we didn't have to wait three years between episodes.