X3
Ah, Brett Ratner, you pudgy douchebag. You bang hot teen starlets and somehow get the greenlight to helm one of the most lucrative comic book film franchises of all time.
Scattered Thoughts:
-Overall good superhero action. Wolverine taking on dozens of henchman in the woods was pretty sweet, as was him and Beast wrecking bitches on Alcatraz. Anything with the Juggernaut was gold.
-"Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"
-I fell in love with Kitty Pryde. It was her "Hey, dickhead!" line that did it for me.
-"Hey, guys, Cyclops is dead... So, what's for breakfast?" Lamest death ever. In general, Cyclops got dicked over in the movies.
-They made Wolverine into a bitch. I'm sorry, but it's true. Crying over Xavier? Bullshit, Wolverine would've gone and chopped down a forest or something. His "Rally the Troops, We are a Team, We are United, We are X-Men" speech was out of character and just painful as hell to watch. Wolverine is not a team player, ever. Perhaps worst of all, Wolverine doesn't run out of cigars, ever. He can be fucking mermaids underwater while handwrestling robots and he'd still be chomping down on a lit cigar.
-I wanted to smack storm when she said "Logan, we work as a team" right after he and Colossus worked as a team to take down the "Sentinel".
-Magneto... definitely not as badass as the last movie. He wouldn't ditch Mystique like that and he wouldn't be so passe about Xavier's death. Way out of character.
-Whatever they did to de-age Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan in the first scene was amazing, totally seamless.
-Angel must be able to fly fast as hell to make it from the school in New York all the way over to the West Coast.
-I think they sort of screwed up the movie... I found myself supporting Magneto's side, and to be honest, it was sort of dumb for the X-Men to go to the government's aid. No, I don't support killing the kid, but it seemed fucked up that the government seemed to be starting a mandatory vaccine program. If you look at all of Ian McKellan's comparisons of mutant perscution with homosexual persecution, and the original comparisons to racism in the comic, it would be analogous to if the government was going to "cure" homosexuality, which I don't think any rational moral person can agree with. I mean... Storm's opinions on the cure were essentially the same as Magneto's.
-I probably popped a thousand boners when Jean Grey was in her black tank top/gym shorts ensemble. Note to self: make love to a woman with telekinetic powers.
-Besides that though, she didn't really do all that much.
-All the C- and D-List Big Bad wannabes were pretty lame, minus I-Can-Make-Bone-Knives-From-My-Arms-Man.
-I'm glad Pyro and Iceman got to throw down finally. Too bad Iceman is pretty much a nancy.
Overall, it's worth seeing it. It has some good balls to the wall superhero action, but some of the character moments will make you want to slap your grandmom.