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DC Comics Movies
X-Men: Magneto's Family
Highlights: Though hardly as furry and bestial as the comic version of the character, Hugh Jackman nevertheless shows off his star quality as Wolverine.
It's not easy to make a movie featuring over a dozen main characters and have each one be dynamic, sympathetic, and human. That difficulty increases when the majority of those characters possess bizarre powers and/or deformities that render them essentially inhuman. But due in large part to a tight script and stellar performances by veteran actors Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen, director Bryan Singer overcame those difficulties when he brought Marvel Comics' popular super-team [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the X-Men, to the big screen.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Equally silly is the notion that feeling can be inserted into an emotionally vacant, sloppy, massively mismanaged script by killing off three or four major characters. However, that's exactly the course this movie follows. Rather than mourn the dead, most viewers no doubt feel relieved for the actors that portrayed them, as they are now exempt from any future sequels. Or so it would seem.
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
With a swift and solid establishment of the central conceit (there are people among us who, by virtue of genetic mutations, have extraordinary abilities) and the quick yet clean introduction of both characters and settings, Singer not only juggles numerous characters, he also sidesteps the silliness to which such a movie could so easily fall victim. The end result is both an action-packed thrill-ride and a stirring commentary on social intolerance and xenophobia.
The first clue that the X-Men series had mutated into something absurd and banal is the first on-screen appearance of the Beast. Picture Dr. Frazier Crane made up to look like a life-sized Cookie Monster. Then put him in an Armani suit and expect people to believe that he holds an important job at the White House. The Beast in the comics was just plain silly, and on the big screen, the silliness increases tenfold.
Highlights: Nightcrawler's teleportation ability is amazingly well-done in this film, and Brian Cox is fantastic as the villainous, mutant-hating Stryker.
As Marvel Comics and DC Comics both prepare for the long-awaited film versions of their mightiest super-groups (the Avengers and the Justice League, respectively), it’s worth a look back at the film series centering on Marvel’s other great team of heroes, the X-Men.
X2: X-Men United (2003)
X-Men (2000)
Hugh Jackman once more hits the screen as Logan, the Wolverine, this time in a film of his own. Well, not all his own, as the film features appearances by numerous X-Men-related heroes and villains, notably Gambit (Remmy LeBeau), Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), and Sabretooth (Liev Shriber). Though it’
In this excellent sequel [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Bryan Singer skillfully delivers another tale involving super-powered mutants who, despite their larger-than-life abilities and oftentimes inhuman appearances, struggle with very human problems. Though it’s a fun action film with jaw-dropping special visual effects, X-Men 2 also depicts a world divided by prejudice, the extent to which the intolerant will go to "cure" or "eliminate" those they cannot accept, and how, when driven by rage, resentment [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the desire for revenge, victims of oppressions can sometimes become oppressors themselves.
Highlights: Patrick Stewart has such a great voice that listening to terribly-written dialogue is nearly tolerable.