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.
X-Men (2000)
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, the X-Men, to the big screen.
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.
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