How wonderfully does “X-Men: First Class” take me back to a simpler time, when my parents serving up French toast instead of cereal on Saturday morning was the best news of my week? So. So “X-Men: First Class,” the new prequel to those films, needed to fill a void in my heart, a vast schism settled deep into my childhood memories of chomping on breakfast while watching Professor X and Magneto battle it out. 2003’s “X2” was slightly better, ending things on a fittingly despairing note, but 2006’s “X-Men: The Last Stand” and 2009’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”? I could list all the flaws in those movies, but I’m pretty sure most readers would be disgusted by my rampant nerdiness.
It gave us a roguish Wolverine in Hugh Jackman and offered up a smilingly sinister Magneto in Ian McKellen, but as a child who grew up on the Saturday morning cartoon, I was disappointed the characters weren’t as snarky or tortured - and weren’t wearing those yellow and blue spandex suits. There are numerous action scenes and violence (including some suggested and seen torture scenes, as well as stabbings, gunshots and death by fire), brief nudity (although it’s the mutant kind, so you don’t see anything), some implied sexual situations, profanity and emotional trauma caused by the horrors of the Holocaust.īanish those memories of the ultimately unsatisfying “X-Men” trilogy and the mind-numbing awfulness of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” “X-Men: First Class” is exhilarating, refreshing and undeniably awesome - most everything new and old fans of the comic books could ask for.Įleven years ago, the first “X-Men” film adaptation seemed good enough.
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