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Looks and feels like a very cheesy Cold War-era B movie...
It uses the themes of the previous movies to build an intelligent, fast-paced, and highly entertaining prequel.
This blazing "pre-boot" breathes new life into the sagging franchise
Lacking a single memorable joke or striking image, First Class is as perfunctory and passionless as would-be franchise resurrections get.
It's a strangely talky motion picture that tries to advance several philosophical themes; these would have been more interesting if we weren't already aware of how they will play out in the "future" X-Men trilogy.
We all love a good creation myth. That's partly why X-Men: First Class is such fanboy fun.
Good, clean summer movie fun where the money they spend is up on the screen - with actors and effects
Magneto used to be a globe-trotting Bond-a-like and Xavier was a beer-chugging ladies man? Admit it, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart suddenly seem much more interesting.
As visually impressive as X-Men: First Class can be, Vaughn is a natural storyteller and he never loses sight of what the big picture is.
This new entry to the "X-Men" saga will please fans and non-fans of the comic book heroes alike, shaking things up by giving us a little something new from the franchise.
Matthew Vaughn still proves that he's a terrific and entertaining filmmaker, while still retaining a distinct style.
Comic-book lovers, fans of alternate history, and fantasy-prone moviegoers in general are all sure to find something to love about X-Men: First Class.
One of the five worst films of 2011. Inexplicably acclaimed, incredibly dumb.
A first-rate action film with great special effects and an effective origin tale to tell--perhaps the best of the X-Men series so far.
With so many characters to introduce or reintroduce, Vaughn has a lot of ground to cover, and he does it in a way that at once feels retro and modern.
The film tries to do too much, to cover too much ground... The result is a film that's very easy to enjoy, but hard to love.
There's something to be respected about a film that doesn't spend most of its time in mindless action
As X-Men films go, this one gets the job done and is certainly better than Last Stand or Wolverine. But there are still just too darn many X-Men.
While it never reaches the intelligence or character richness of the first two X-Men films, it's still the superior superhero spectacle of 2011 to date.
What's next? How about a flick where the D-Day assault on the beach at Normandy is led by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
In Matthew Vaughn's pitch-perfect, fluid, sparklingly edited movie, we learn about demons. And wouldn't you know it? It's all about Jewish revenge.
Its attributes and weaknesses can be broken down into two categories: the relationship between Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender), and everything else
In a summer unfortunately glutted with superhero movies, every one an origins story, X-Men: First Class not only eclipses its competition, but also each of its franchise predecessors.
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