Better than it needed to be!

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2003)

I'm a little distressed at the minority opinion expressed here on the comments board so vehemently that personal complaints and continuity errors between film and comic book are trying to outshine the simple fact that this...is...a...MOVIE! I have met countless X-Men comic book fans who are thrilled and more than satisfied with this film REGARDLESS of the differences between it and the source material. Somewhere, somehow, sometime, it needs to be accepted that films based off of best selling novels, comic books and epics have to sacrifice characters and details for the sake of making a good MOVIE.
This MOVIE was excellent by every calculable measure. Character development, storyline, acting, special effects...anyone who has seen it cannot argue with the superiority displayed in every one of those categories. The picture managed to be allegorical without being preachy, romantic without being cheesy, action-packed without being Matrix-y and fun without being goofy.

X2 was a better movie than it needed to be. From the success of the first movie, all they needed was a cheap plot and Hugh Jackman re-signed. But this movie was exceptional. One of the best sequels I have ever seen and one of the few sequels I've actually liked better than the movie. One reviewer compared it to the sequel quality of Empire Strikes Back. I only hope X3 is lightyears better than Return of the Jedi!!!!!