A worthy sequel, and a darn good film in it's own right

Rating: 9/10 (3 May 2003)

It isn't too hard to satisfy my cinematic demands [I wasn't wild about, but tolerated Jar Jar; as you can guess I am as big an X-Men fan as I am a Star Wars fan], so when something like this comes along, I can be forgiving of its flaws.
The first of which is that the movie was several days to short. That's right, my chief complaint is that the movie was too short.
When I was about ten years old, I bought my first X-Men comic book. I waited 21 years for the characters and story to hit the silver screen; 2000's "X-Men" was worth every minute of the wait.
Now, two years later, this was not only a worthy sequel, but it surpasses the first movie in many ways.
I want George Lucas to hand over the director's reins to Brian Singer, and have Wolverine make a guest appearance in Star Wars: Episode 3: the Undecided Title.
I would have love to have seen some cross-pollination; that is, someone should have been reading a newspaper, and it should have been a copy of "The Daily Bugle."
The movie seems to have been inspired, to some extent, by 1982's "God Loves, Man Kills" an X-Men story that I enjoyed greatly.
If you are a fan, or if you say "X-Who?" this is an enjoyable movie, and I hope that I one day can take my kids to see "X-Men 7 - Wolverine Shaves!"