Like Comparing Empire Strikes Back to A New Hope

Rating: 10/10 (10 May 2003)

Obviously the first film was just a testing ground to see if the critics and public would take to an X-Men film. With the success the first one had, they went ahead and gave the sequel a much larger budget which is absolutely necessary in a comic book to film translation of this scale. It's as good as you've heard - don't even sit and ponder it, just go and have a great time. And then you can go and flock like the rest of the cattle to the trendy and pretentious Matrix sequel.