babysteps towards greatness

Rating: Null/10 (24 May 2003)

Better than the first X-Men, but still nothing to make you wet your pants with rapture. I was happy to see the elimination of Toad and Sabretooth, and a slight development of Mystique. The opening scene is rockin, too.
Wolverine is uncharacteristically bloodthirsty in this movie. In the comics he used to just punch through walls and hold his claws to people's necks a lot.
Now he's Mr. Stabby McKillKill! What gives?
Cyclops needs to get headbutted. I used to like Cyclops, but the first X-Men movie made him lose points with me...and now I really can't stand him. He gives bespectacled people everywhere a bad name, what with all his whining and crying and carrying on.
If the TV spots for this movie hadn't flashed Lady Deathstrike's name on the screen, I might not have known who she was. Next time they want to put a hot Asian woman in an X-Men movie, it ought to be Psylocke. She's mind- bendingly knockerific (see also, The Matrix Reloaded and Traffic).
When Wolvie says that Mystique is "good," and Magneto says, "You have no idea," I feel like puking.