2X better than the first

Rating: 9/10 (2 May 2003)

How does Hollywood take the same idea, with largely the same cast, when everyone has seen largely the same effects, in a genre like that's the same as last year's big Spidey success and the same as this year's coming Hulk success after an amazingly same sequel run as Batman and Superman before it and -- do the same thing again and have it be even better? Well they've done it with X2 (even the title is better with its gender neutrality). A fun summer flick way before summer (do they realize it's not even Memorial Day for another 24 days?) is here. Then it ends and we actually want more of the same thing again right after we see more of the same thing again. It's good for 2X more X films - but lets hope they keep getting 2X better unlike the DC movies heretofore mentioned.