I found myself in a love-hate relationship with this film. If you’re going to make a prequel, could you at least bother to take the time to re-watch the other movies first? (Then again, X-Men: Origins had the continuity problem well in hand by having Wolverine meet a majority of the characters who acted like they had never met him in the first movie). In X-Men: The Last Stand, Magneto and Xavier meet Jean Grey in the 1980s together (with Xavier walking), but First Class has their separation and paralyzation occurring in the 1960s. – but muddled and confused motivations and personal histories that the other films had already defined. In X-Men, Xavier has clearly never seen Mystique before and needs to discover her ability to change forms, but First Class has them growing up together. First Class ensures that the story lines match up merely from a plot perspective – Magneto and Xavier need to have a falling out, Xavier must eventually become paralyzed, etc. X-Men has fallen into the same prequel trap as Star Wars. Having seen the other live-action X-Men films, I could not overlook the enormous number of plot discrepancies between this prequel and the other movies. The film had good tie-ins to the other installments in the series – I liked Hugh Jackman’s cameo and the origins of the X-Men’s SR-71 and Magneto’s telepathy-proof helmet – but poor overall continuity. As a prequel to the X-Men saga, however, it fell short. As such, the film features a completely different, younger cast, with big shoes to fill.Īs a stand-alone film, First Class was entertaining because the effects were visually appealing, the period pieces were accurate, and the plot was compelling. The movie tells the story of Professor X and Magneto before they were Professor X and Magneto, working with other mutants to develop their abilities. X-Men: First Classis the latest prequel to the the famous comic strip-turned-film series from Marvel.
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