Before Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lensherr (Michael
Fassbender) took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were friends. In 1962
on the back of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world was in more jeopardy than we
knew. Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), a mutant, masterminded the complete
destruction of all of the humans in the world. All he needed was the USA and
Russia to blow everything up. History shows, that did not happen, but it does
not tell us how it was stopped.
Raven (Jennifer Lawrence), before she became Mystique and
Magneto’s right hand girl, was Xavier’s best friend, and perhaps she wanted a
little more. Erik, Raven, and Xavier gather a team of mutants to combat the
mutants Shaw has assembled. Their mission is to stop Shaw’s plans for the annihilation
of the humans. Shaw believes the humans will never accept mutants, and he’s
right (as seen in the Xmen Series.)
Ok comic book heroes, this movie is not following the books,
so let’s just get that out there. This is one of the multitudes of alternate
universes Marvel uses to explain why different writers do different things in
their books. This is why Beast can be blue and hairy in “First Class” and then
human again in the first Xmen (on the TV) then blue and hairy again...aw who am
I kidding? I don’t know why, but don’t let it ruin the movie for you.
The story of how Xavier was wheelchair bound and why Magneto
hates humans is worth the time to watch the movie.
The action scenes are done well, the mutants are awesome
(even if you’ve never heard of some) and I liked it. Don’t over think it, just
enjoy it, and kudos to the person who thought of the Wolverine cameo! That was
pretty cool (and very brief). Xmen wasn’t one of my favorites in comicbook-dom
but it was pretty cool. It’s on DVD. Get a freebie code for Redbox/Blockbuster
and go see it.
Seriously though.... how is Kevin Bacon keeping so young looking?
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