Fan Boy Heaven

Rating: 7/10 (8 May 2003)

What a nice surprise, it's good to see a sequel surpass it's predecessor on screen and that is exactly what X2 has done. This is more of an Empire Strikes Back version of X Men which works very well and leaves us gagging for more.
The sequel actually had more financial backing than the original which helped Mr Singer achieve some more fancy effects that were missing from the first film. Without these effects we would never have seen Nightcrawler realised in quite the same way that he has been in this movie. From one of the opening scenes (attack in the White house) you are just hooked. Nightcrawler teleporting from room to room kicking some serious can was fantastic, a great energy filled start to a great film.
We see a lot more of Wolverine in this film too and add to his mysterious background. We also see him a lot more aggressive (which lets face it is what he is meant to be). A few cameos are thrown in for us fan boys in the form of Beast (well the human form at least), Gambit (although it was only his name that we got to see), Colossus, Shadowcat, Syren, Leech among others.
Another great thing about this movie is the switch of roles performed by some of the characters, we actually have Magneto charging into battle leading the X-Men to stop Prof. X from killing everyone!
For all those who are not followers of the comics, there are bound to be a few key points that will confuse them, like the appearance of the Phoenix, but when they bring out X3 (lets hope) all will be revealed, they can't leave it like this, can they?