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...books so popular. Although I wish the movie were more than just a pitiful 90 minutes and the ending too blatantly tries to set up future sequels, I'll take what I can get when it comes to this genre. Finally, something must be said of Aussie newcomer Hugh Jackman, who was so utterly pitch-perfect as legendary comics icon Wolverine that he alone made me feel like I was actually watching the comic book, rather than some hackneyed interpretation...
Consider that the top-billed players of the five films after M:I2 were, in descending order of earnings and ascending levels of incredulity, Russell Crowe (Gladiator, $182 million), George Clooney (The Perfect Storm, $174 million), Hugh Jackman (X-Men, $149 million), Shannon Elizabeth (Scary Movie, $147 million) and D.B. Sweeney (the voice of the iguanodon in Dinosaur, $134 million...
Except for an uneasy turn as the caped japester in 1997's Batman and Robin, Clooney hadn't got closer to a $100 million movie than the fifth row of the Beverly Center 13. Crowe and Jackman, those Australian-bred hunks of smoldering beefcake, may be headliners in the making, but they're not made yet. As for the other two--well, their parents must be very proud...
Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) runs a school for exceptional young people: folks like Storm (Halle Berry), who plays tricks with weather; Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), whose fists contain adamantine blades; Cyclops (James Marsden), with a killer stare; and Rogue (Anna Paquin), whose touch is toxic. Xavier and Dr. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) battle the bad guys led by Magneto (Ian McKellen) over the fate of the planet--that old thing...
...Directed by Bryan Singer Starring Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman JULY...