X-cellent movie (X Men 2 (DVD))

Member Name: Dando83

Product:	X Men 2 (DVD)
Date:	30/05/06 (82 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very faithful to the comic book, Brian Cox is excellent villain

Disadvantages: None

The was a suberb follow-up to the much-too-short X-Men. The same X-Men are back with Nightcrawler as an addition. This new teleporting mutant is involved in the first scene of the movie which is definitely a show stopper.

The original movie's theme of Mutant Rights is continued here, this time introducing the US government and military as the enemy. Brian Cox's William Stryker isn't known to me from the comics, but he plays a wonderful villain in this film. You can just sense his hatred and fear of the X-Men. The theme of this flick flows even more wonderfully into the third movie which is currently in theatres.

Wolverine is a great character and Hugh Jackman gets a chance to lead more scenes this time playing the clawed mutant. Relationships between some of the junior X-Men are explored. You can really empathise with them all.

The effects are good, but nothing too spectacular over the first movie. Characterisation is definately the main thought of this flick by the director Bryan Singer.

DVD EXTRAS

Extra footage: I'm a little disappointed by the lack of extended scenes. Those included are slight variations of existing clips

Featurettes and Making of: 20th Century Fox is always a big fan of these. Some of the behind the scene info is interesting. Mostly boring.

X-Men history: Lots of Marvel comics goodies. Worth watching Stan Lee talkin about the X-Men.

Director and Producer commentary: I'm going to watch the flick with this commentary playing for a little bit of movie trivia.

Summary: X-cellent movie