So a couple of reviews popped up online this morning, and they offer two divergent views of the Ratner infested X-Men: The Last Stand which opens up this weekend. The first one that caught my eye was from Hollywood Reporter critic Michael Rechtshaffen. And while he doesn't totally rag on the movie or use lots of clever wordplay, he still sounds pretty disappointed with the film. The best part is when he slaps screenwriters, Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn with this:
So while Jackman, Janssen, McKellen, Stewart, Halle Berry's Storm, Rebecca Romijn's Mystique, as well as newcomer Kelsey Grammer's hairy, blue-tinged Dr. Henry McCoy/Beast are all in fine fighting form, their superpowers ultimately are rendered useless in the face of some ultradumb dialogue that truly misses the "X-Men" mark.
The Rechtshaffen might not be the best source for an opinion on this. He seems pretty disappointed in that Bryan Singer dropped out of the project followed by Matthew Vaughn. So like maybe he is just all thinking, "oh what could have been... I like goobers!"
On the other side of the spectrum is Drew "Moriarty" McWeeny at fan haven, AICN. Drew seems totally gay for the film, which is fine and all, but anyone who frequents AICN knows that Drew has been pretty down on the movie for a while, so his expectations must have been sucky going into the film. And also, the guy has a little history of being down on something till release, and then being pleasantly surprised.
But Drew never really discusses the dialog like that dude from the Hollywood Reporter, so like maybe he was so impressed with the FX sequences and stuff, that he kind of overlooked some of the movies less noble qualities. But this makes me tingle:
When this one is working, it’s so much fun it’s ridiculous. Mystique, who deserved a spin-off spy movie franchise all her own, has a great Mystique scene that I want to see again immediately. Wolverine gets to use his claws in ways that make me giggle. And Magneto finally goes totally bad, even as he finally finds himself on the exact right side of an argument.
Of course I am going to see this movie opening day and all, but is this going to be one of those movies that really divides fans into love-it or hate-it camps? Oh wait, the target audience for this are comic nerds. They can't see anything without pooping all over it with their extremism and stuff.
