X-Men First Class
Jun. 27th, 2011 02:27 pmGood
* Actual characters whose personality matters and interacters with other characters' personalities
* Set at a time when Xavier and Magneto are able to let rip and it's awesome, rather than having to come up with contrived explanations why they're practically omnipotent, but wait till the end of the film to do anything.
* A plot that mostly more-or-less makes sense.
* Portrays earlier versions of the characters that are interestingly different, but not inconsistent with their normally-understood later selves.
It's rare that once a series has started to go downhill, the second prequel is the one that's picks up again, but this one bucks the trend: it's definitely better than the boring wolverine prequel, and at least as good as XIII, and in some but not all ways better than X-Men 1 and 2.
( Minor spoilers )
* Actual characters whose personality matters and interacters with other characters' personalities
* Set at a time when Xavier and Magneto are able to let rip and it's awesome, rather than having to come up with contrived explanations why they're practically omnipotent, but wait till the end of the film to do anything.
* A plot that mostly more-or-less makes sense.
* Portrays earlier versions of the characters that are interestingly different, but not inconsistent with their normally-understood later selves.
It's rare that once a series has started to go downhill, the second prequel is the one that's picks up again, but this one bucks the trend: it's definitely better than the boring wolverine prequel, and at least as good as XIII, and in some but not all ways better than X-Men 1 and 2.
( Minor spoilers )