X-MEN First Class (June 3, 2011) - Reviews are a Homerun hit with Critics (Score 88%)

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I honestly had no care for this movie.

But from IGN to BleedingCool this movie has not only surprised the critics, but is actually making doubters (like myself) get a 2nd opinion about this film.

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BLEEDING COOL

All in all, First Class is a damn fine superhero movie. More geared, I would suggest, to the more mature fanboy as opposed to some of the aspartame-crazed comic book capers that tend to pop up on the boxes of Happy Meals.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/05/...second-review/


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If you were nervous the latest chapter in the X-Men franchise might disappoint, I’m happy to report it’s a huge home-run. Everything from the great script to the awesome performances by the entire cast (with special mention to James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender) makes this X-Men film my favorite in the franchise. Also, the film is loaded with incredible action and a ton of Easter Eggs for the fans. Even the sets and costumes are great. Trust me, as soon as the movie is over, you’re going to wish the next chapter was coming out next week. Hit the jump for more.
http://collider.com/x-men-first-class-review/92032/


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I really enjoyed this film. Nothing in it really has the simple, raw intensity of Hit Girl in Vaughn’s Kick-Ass. Vaughn has been a little denuded here. He is great at filthy fun. But still, he shows that he has the chops. Look for the masterfully artful effects sequence early in the film and some of the great ways Vaughn has his characters manifest their powers. And while it makes you wonder how much better X-Men 3 could have been, it also makes you happy that he didn’t do an X-film until he had the opportunity to do it his way fully.
http://moviecitynews.com/2011/05/rev...s-non-spoiler/

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It’s not all serious. The overall sense I’m left with after First Class, for all its heaviness, is of a film that’s sweet, funny, and pleasingly fast-paced. Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) as Raven, Charles’s adopted sister and a shapeshifting mutant, is delightful, and particular when she begins to enjoy a “normal” teen crush experience with another mutant, Hank (played by the adorable Nicholas Hoult: Clash of the Titans, A Single Man). There are some hilarious and just-right cameos that make you laugh and sigh at the same time with how perfect they are and how naturally they are worked into the story. It’s not Shakespeare... but, as breezy, thoughtful summer comic-book movies go, almost. Al-damn-most.
http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/...ass_review.htm

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Wow a 100% and 97% at ROTTEN TOMATOES!!?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_men_first_class/
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Only 15 reviews so far on RT, and one has to be a bit wary as a lot of times early screenings are given to critics they expect to be favorable.

But nonetheless, it does bode well! Color me surprised as I expected this to suck as much or more than Wolverine did.
 
FYI, Best Buy has X-Men 1-3 and Wolverine on sale next week for $7.99 with movie cash for First Class. Not a bad deal if you plan to see it.
 
I would like to watch it, the x-men movies were kinda boring to me and I didn't like the origins wolverine movie either. I am a big fan of the 1990's cartoon series and thats my claim to the x-men in general. I will be checking this one out.
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin']After X3 and Wolverine my hopes are not high for this one. I really want it to not suck but I'm not expecting much.[/QUOTE]
Basically this. Really how could they have fucked up Wolverine THAT bad? Deadpool's mouth is sewn shut. We learn the important question of HOW Wolverine got that jacket and belt buckle. We learn the thing Wolverine values most...HIS MEMORY! Goddamn, now just thinking about that movie is making me angry they even made another X-Men movie.
 
I never got into comics, so I don't care about that. As long as it's a good, entertaining movie is all I care about.

Green Lantern looks pretty lame to me from the previews, it will have to get crazy good reviews for me to see it in the theater and at least solid reviews to bother even Netflixing it.
 
I'm really looking forward to this. Last Stand and Wolverine were unbelievably bad, but I have faith in this one since Singer is back at the helm.
 
The movie will be very good, the only person I've seen a negative review from so far is the director's wife. (bazinga)
 
well if you take it as a just a movie Im sure its ok maybe even good, but once you say its a X-men movie there should be something more for the fans(true to marvel or at a real good attempt) I see first class a prequel made to milk the marvel fan base by throwing in random mutants that they really haven done.
 
The original trailer for this movie made me think it would be horrible, but the new trailer has changed my mind. I'll probably be seeing this Friday. Actually starting to look very good.
 
[quote name='tcrash247']I'm really looking forward to this. Last Stand and Wolverine were unbelievably bad, but I have faith in this one since Singer is back at the helm.[/QUOTE]


He's only producing from what I remember. Anyways, Devin from CHUD and BAD pretty much summed it up as the best X-Men film and that it's a pretty damn good movie (not just superhero movie.)

http://www.badassdigest.com/2011/05/27/movie-review-x-men-first-class-is-uncannily-great


To say that X-Men: First Class is the best X-Men movie is slight praise. That’s not a particularly high bar. To say that it’s the best Marvel movie since Spider-Man 2 is a little better, but still lowballing. To say that it’s the best superhero film since The Dark Knight is nice, but it’s untrue. I liked X-Men: First Class more than The Dark Knight (we can save arguments over objective qualities for later). The best praise I can give X-Men: First Class is that it’s a wonderful movie, not just a wonderful X-Men movie or a wonderful Marvel movie or a wonderful superhero movie. It’s a damn good film, full stop, all other genres and ghetto-izations aside.
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I am fairly excited since the first press photos and posters were horrid...
 
[quote name='Vulgarism']He's only producing from what I remember.[/QUOTE]

Oh woops, you're right. Well, at least he has something to do with it and that makes it worthwhile to me. I'll most likely see this Friday.
 
[quote name='Clak']Wait, they made Mystique Xavier's adopted sister? Wtf.....[/QUOTE]

spoiler tag please!!!!

some people haven't seen it yet......... I was really tempted to see this last night after work as my work place was 10 mins from the movie theater....but I was too tired.
 
Umm, it's in the OP dude. Unless you don't know Mystique's name is Raven, which was even in one of the 3 X-Men movies.
 
[quote name='Clak']Umm, it's in the OP dude. Unless you don't know Mystique's name is Raven, which was even in one of the 3 X-Men movies.[/QUOTE]


I knew that...but the part of her being his
adopted sister
is a movie spoiler ...just like in this film we will find out how
the professor became wheel chair bound.
...not how he
lost his hair.
..that i blame on
Patrick Stewart
....:D

I am looking forward to this though.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']I knew that...but the part of her being his
adopted sister
is a movie spoiler ...just like in this film we will find out how
the professor became wheel chair bound.
...not how he
lost his hair.
..that i blame on
Patrick Stewart
....:D

I am looking forward to this though.[/QUOTE]
It's in the freaking review in the first post man, I'm not spoiling anything.
 
[quote name='Clak']Wait, they made Mystique --- adopted sister? [/QUOTE]
Well, they made Joker the killer of Batman's parents in Tim Burton's film. And made Ra's Al Ghul as Batman's mentor Henry Ducard one and the same person in Batman Begins.

Continuity in movies are separate from comics.
 
Just saw it. It was definitely good, but I felt it was missing something the original 2 had that I can't put my finger on. I don't think it had enough action in it besides one part in the middle and at the very end. I also didn't particularly care for any of the mutants besides Magneto, White Queen and the red Nightcrawler. Havok and Banshee were cool but weren't in it and didn't do enough. I shouldn't be complaining about an origin of sorts story not having enough action, that's for sequels, but I still think it could have used more. When there was action, it was pretty violent at times akin to when Wolverine shredded the fuck out of the guys in X2.

Despite that, I was totally satisfied. If this was any bit better than Last Stand and Wolverine I was going to be happy and this was way, way better. Magneto and Professor X were the focal points and that was great because Magneto is my favorite character. There's also a cameo that is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud.
 
I'll probably check this movie out after it come out on DVD. The only thing I hate from the previews is the stupid critic quotes..."Better than the Dark Knight" Joe Somebody from crappyblog.com

That stuff is annoying, but the movie does look good.
 
I didn't care for the 3rd one that much, but I really liked Wolverine, so I'm in the minority there. Not being a reader of comics, I guess it didn't offend me the same way it did others. I thought the opening sequence in that movie was bad ass.

I'm excited for this one definitely. With this, super 8, cowboys and aliens and hp 7 part 2 still to come, it's going to be a good popcorn movie summer.
 
[quote name='Anexanhume']I didn't care for the 3rd one that much, but I really liked Wolverine, so I'm in the minority there. Not being a reader of comics, I guess it didn't offend me the same way it did others. I thought the opening sequence in that movie was bad ass.

I'm excited for this one definitely. With this, super 8, cowboys and aliens and hp 7 part 2 still to come, it's going to be a good popcorn movie summer.[/QUOTE]

Everytime I think of Wolverine that incredibly stupid scene of him flying off the motorcycle onto the helicopter comes to my mind. That scene was just so dumb.
 
Just got back from seeing it. Really enjoyed it , especially cause like others have said wasn't expecting much out of it after 3 and Wolverine. Lack of action was kinda disappointing but at least what was there was fun , the story was good and was fairly funny too (especially the recruits training). I thought McAvoy was good as a young Xaviar (kinda a party animal in his younger days) wasn't sold as much with Fassbender as Magneto though , he was good but something just seemed kinda off about him. Bacon was good as the villain
even though he didn't really do anything except act menacing
well , besides
killing Darwin aka Token Black Guy.
. Was he (Shaw) supposed to be someone specific or just a villain made for the movie?

Be interesting to see where they go from here , assuming they are still planning more prequel style movies. Also was there anything after the credits? I couldn't stick around to see.
 
[quote name='StarKnightX']Also was there anything after the credits? I couldn't stick around to see.[/QUOTE]

I don't think so. My dad and I were waiting for the credits to finish when someone else in the theater told us there wasn't anything after the credits. So we took his word for it and left.
 
[quote name='bardockkun']Basically this. Really how could they have fucked up Wolverine THAT bad? Deadpool's mouth is sewn shut. We learn the important question of HOW Wolverine got that jacket and belt buckle. We learn the thing Wolverine values most...HIS MEMORY! Goddamn, now just thinking about that movie is making me angry they even made another X-Men movie.[/QUOTE]


that guy never should have been deadpool nor the green lantern.
 
[quote name='bardockkun']Basically this. Really how could they have fucked up Wolverine THAT bad? Deadpool's mouth is sewn shut. We learn the important question of HOW Wolverine got that jacket and belt buckle. We learn the thing Wolverine values most...HIS MEMORY! Goddamn, now just thinking about that movie is making me angry they even made another X-Men movie.[/QUOTE]


exactly.... I remember how my theater when NUTS when he puts on the jacket for the first time...............really it's JUST A fuckING JACKET!

I agree about RR not playing a good Deadpool or GL.... fuck they should have given us black John Stewart...

oh btw speaking of GL, I just read on
wiki that Stewart *might* have a cameo in a bar fight scene in the movie.... hmmm..
 
Meh, it was ok. We had some free tickets so we decided to use them on this. At least it was free. I would have been slightly disappointed had we paid to see it.

I've never read a comic book, so I don't really care about continuity between the movies and the comics. However, my understanding is that this was supposed to be a prequel to the Xmen trilogy, not a reboot of the series, so a few things bugged me about the continuity between those and this movie:

1. In Xmen, Xavier mentions Magneto knew to build his telepathy blocking helmet because he helped build Cerebro, so he knew how it worked. In First Class, The Beast builds the original Cerebro, and Magneto leaves before the full version is even started. Also, he doesn't even have his helmet to block Cerebro, he just steals it from Kevin Bacon.

2. It seems like Jean Gray mentions in either Xmen or X2 that she was one of Xavier's first students, but I could be wrong on this. She wasn't in this movie, unless they briefly showed her as a kid during the Cerebro scene and I just missed it. In X3 both he and Magneto go and recruit her, but again, you never even see her in this movie, unless I missed that during Cerebro.

3. Mystique tells Beast something about how they've grown so much during the past week of training. From that I took that they spent about a week at the mansion to train before the end of movie conflict. So again, Magneto would have had no time to help build Cerebro, plus it doesn't seem like they really had the time to build any kind of meaningful friendship in this movie that I thought was such a large part of their struggle with each other. The time frame this movie covered seemed so rushed just to get to the end where Magneto leaves and Xavier can be in a wheelchair.

Again, if this was supposed to be some kind of reboot, then none of this matters. But if it's supposed to be a prequel, there's some stuff that bugged me about it. Not enough to make me hate it, but it certainly distracted me during the movie.
 
This movie was amazing!! I'm happy they are planning to make a sequel! Everything about it was just.. Perfect! But it feels like all superhero movies now have darker atmospheres.. Sooner or later, they'll become predictable and people will start demanding a style similar like sam raimi's :p
 
[quote name='Cry Havoc']Meh, it was ok. We had some free tickets so we decided to use them on this. At least it was free. I would have been slightly disappointed had we paid to see it.

I've never read a comic book, so I don't really care about continuity between the movies and the comics. However, my understanding is that this was supposed to be a prequel to the Xmen trilogy, not a reboot of the series, so a few things bugged me about the continuity between those and this movie:

1. In Xmen, Xavier mentions Magneto knew to build his telepathy blocking helmet because he helped build Cerebro, so he knew how it worked. In First Class, The Beast builds the original Cerebro, and Magneto leaves before the full version is even started. Also, he doesn't even have his helmet to block Cerebro, he just steals it from Kevin Bacon.

2. It seems like Jean Gray mentions in either Xmen or X2 that she was one of Xavier's first students, but I could be wrong on this. She wasn't in this movie, unless they briefly showed her as a kid during the Cerebro scene and I just missed it. In X3 both he and Magneto go and recruit her, but again, you never even see her in this movie, unless I missed that during Cerebro.

3. Mystique tells Beast something about how they've grown so much during the past week of training. From that I took that they spent about a week at the mansion to train before the end of movie conflict. So again, Magneto would have had no time to help build Cerebro, plus it doesn't seem like they really had the time to build any kind of meaningful friendship in this movie that I thought was such a large part of their struggle with each other. The time frame this movie covered seemed so rushed just to get to the end where Magneto leaves and Xavier can be in a wheelchair.

Again, if this was supposed to be some kind of reboot, then none of this matters. But if it's supposed to be a prequel, there's some stuff that bugged me about it. Not enough to make me hate it, but it certainly distracted me during the movie.[/QUOTE]
That's because the other movies were going more off the original comic, with cyclops and jean being early members of the team. This thing just craps all over that continuity.
 
continuity means nothing with comic books, they have millions of spinoffs
as for comic book movies
shit the same actor is playing the human torch and captain America go figure
and deadpool is also the green lantern
 
[quote name='whoknows']Everytime I think of Wolverine that incredibly stupid scene of him flying off the motorcycle onto the helicopter comes to my mind. That scene was just so dumb.[/QUOTE]

Me too. I also think of how they screwed/fucked up Gambit so badly.

[quote name='coolsteel']Just got back and loved the movie, easily washed the taste of Wolverine Origins and X3 out of my mouth.[/QUOTE]

Pretty much.

[quote name='tcrash247']I don't think so. My dad and I were waiting for the credits to finish when someone else in the theater told us there wasn't anything after the credits. So we took his word for it and left.[/QUOTE]

I know what you mean. With past Marvel films there's usually some stinger at the end credits, like in Thor, Iron Man, etc. It really felt like this movie was missing a bit of something there at the end.

[quote name='Clak']That's because the other movies were going more off the original comic, with cyclops and jean being early members of the team. This thing just craps all over that continuity.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, it really does. It's not really that noticeable, but certain things do bug you like the age of Emma Frost (her appearance in Last Stand), the timeline/age of the characters in general compared to the previous installments. There was a few other things that sort of bugged me, but overall it wasn't that drastic or really impact the movie in much of any way. It just made it a little difficult to adjust.
 
[quote name='Gden']This movie is based off a one-shot comic that was an alternate retelling of the origins of X-men.[/QUOTE]

I hadn't known that surprisingly.
 
[quote name='Gden']This movie is based off a one-shot comic that was an alternate retelling of the origins of X-men.[/QUOTE]
Do you know what the one shot was called? It certainly wasn't the First Class series it shares its name with, that was based on the usual Cyclops, Jean, Beast, Angel, and Iceman team. Unless that series has a missile crisis storyline in there?

I wish I saw this movie tonight, all these great reviews and worth of mouth from the midnight showing. We were out with another couple who already saw it so we saw the Hangover 2. Maybe I'm getting old or was too tired to get into it, but I didn't think it was that great.
 
I just saw the movie tonight. I enjoyed it very much, even if it doesn't follow a perfect comic storyline. I think taking the series in a different direction from the first 3 movies is a good change and enjoyed the 1960's setting.

My girlfriend also enjoyed it too and she has no knowledge of the back stories beside the other movies. She left the movie without having to ask me to explain anything (she usually asks something about other superhero movies). So I think that it shows that they put together a good story.

One thing that bugged me was
the appearance of Wolverine. I felt that this was forced in for a laugh and didn't fit in

Did anyone notice
When Charlies uses Cerebro to look for mutants they pass by what appears a young Storm writing in a journal
 
Saw it on Friday, and I was surprised with how much I enjoyed it. I absolutely HATED The Last Stand and didn't even watch Wolverine after hearing about how bad it was. So I had low expectations and ended up all the more happier by the the end. Look, comic "continuity" is hard enough and sometimes insanely poor. So I didn't feel the need to nitpick the little things like
Prof X finally getting paralyzed but yet was standing when talking to little Jean in X3

Really, who they put in the first class of X-men is minor to me compared to the story of Xavier and Magneto. They really did the friendship well and it made me want to rewatch the first two X-men movies to see them interact much later in life.
 
[quote name='PenguinoMF']

Did anyone notice
When Charlies uses Cerebro to look for mutants they pass by what appears a young Storm writing in a journal
[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I noticed too. Then I started trying to figure out the rest of the people, but I don't know enough of the characters in the comics to recognize more of them (or at least none of them stand out).

Overall, it was a good movie. I like the different take on the superhero movie genre.
 
Yeah that
Wolverine
cameo seemed kinda forced, especially since it seemed like they'd met for the first time in the first movie. I would think Charles would remember that.

Honestly I thought it was a pretty meh movie. Beast looked like something out of an cheesy 80s kid horror movie, they should have just kept him human looking.
 
I thought the first hour was amazing but things really slowed down after that. A lot of characters just weren't very interesting. Without Fassbender and McAvoy this movie would have been a total waste. I'd probably give it 3/4.
 
I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. There were a few weird things but overall I was extremely happy with the outcome.
 
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