Right Up There With Spiderman-2

Rating: 9/10 (12 April 2005)

I went to see X2 with a couple of buddies and found the movie to be thoroughly entertaining. After the movie, I thought about the problems of being unwanted, hated, and the tragedy and violence against others, all presented in more comical ways in the film. The film comes back from where the first X-Men (2000) left off. The school is normal order under Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his mutant teachers: Storm (Halle Berry),Dr. Jean Gray (Famke Janssen), Cyclops (James Marsden), and the rebel mutant Wloverine (Hugh Jackman).
After the government invades the school and capture a few students, the mutants must come together to stop the evil scientist William Stryker (Brian Cox) with the help of Magneto (ian McKellen) and a tele-porter named Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming). Stryker has established a mechanism to kill every mutant and be free of his dark past.
The film, like Spiderman-2, is filled with human emotion and longing for a regular human life. The feeling of unwontedness by the outside world is sad and character development is high in this superhero film.
X-2:X-Men United. Starring: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, and Brian Cox.
4 out of 5 Stars.