This is the way that comic book movies should be made. Let's be honest with ourselves as fans. Marvel and Fox could've filmed monkeys playing the parts and we would still go and watch it.
"We are you going?" Our friends might ask.
"To see the new X-Men movie," we'd reply.
"Isn't it just an hour and a half of a bald monkey throwing feces at a monkey in a Magneto helmet?" They would ask, raising a quizzical eyebrow.
"Yeah but it's an X-Men movie," we'd shrug.
We waited years and years for the first movie and when it came out it was good. We were so shocked that we would be willing to see an follow-up, at least once. So that's why I applaud Fox for doing it right and actually putting forth the effort for a good sequel. Now, I'm not going to lie and say that it's a perfect movie. In terms of baseball it's a triple, not a home run but it's a mighty fine triple.
They handled Nightcrawler (one of my favorite X-Men) really well... at the beginning of the movie. By the end of the film his role was reduced to, "Kurt! Teleport there and do this thing!" And he would. Gone was his religious faith and pathos, he became a plot device.
I really liked the movie though. It was a film that stood on it's own but was improved if you'd seen the first one and was even better if you were a fan of the X-Men comics.
I am looking forward to seeing the next one and can only hope that they will have a better title for it than "X3."
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