JamesG
06-03-2011, 05:54 PM
Movie Reviews: X-Men: First Class
Critics have rarely had anything positive to say about installments of the X-Men franchise, but they’re fairly approving of the latest one.
Overall most critics say that First Class is a huge improvement on the franchise.
Ann Hornaday writes in the Washington Post that X-Men: First Class:
“happily delivers on the escapism and rich narrative texture the best of its predecessors have promised. With action, atmosphere and mixed feelings to burn … it seems well on its way to giving the well-traveled X-Men franchise a resuscitating breath of genetically superior, nuclear-powered life.”
Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News says it’s:
“the kind of movie that goes great with extra butter.”
She adds:
“It’s big, bright, savvy, and so expansive you’ll undoubtedly leave feeling you got your money’s worth.”
Joe Morgenstern sums up in the Wall Street Journal that it isn't a masterpiece:
“but it’s summer entertainment of a very high grade that leaves you with an appetite for more of the same.”
Michael Phillips calls it in the Chicago Tribune “moderately engrossing.”
But Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times is unimpressed.
“It would take a brain far more telepathically powerful than that of Professor X to untangle what went wrong with X-Men: First Class, but misplaced and misplayed ambition, to say nothing of a massive misspent budget, comes to my nonmutant mind.”
-IMDB News
Critics have rarely had anything positive to say about installments of the X-Men franchise, but they’re fairly approving of the latest one.
Overall most critics say that First Class is a huge improvement on the franchise.
Ann Hornaday writes in the Washington Post that X-Men: First Class:
“happily delivers on the escapism and rich narrative texture the best of its predecessors have promised. With action, atmosphere and mixed feelings to burn … it seems well on its way to giving the well-traveled X-Men franchise a resuscitating breath of genetically superior, nuclear-powered life.”
Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News says it’s:
“the kind of movie that goes great with extra butter.”
She adds:
“It’s big, bright, savvy, and so expansive you’ll undoubtedly leave feeling you got your money’s worth.”
Joe Morgenstern sums up in the Wall Street Journal that it isn't a masterpiece:
“but it’s summer entertainment of a very high grade that leaves you with an appetite for more of the same.”
Michael Phillips calls it in the Chicago Tribune “moderately engrossing.”
But Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times is unimpressed.
“It would take a brain far more telepathically powerful than that of Professor X to untangle what went wrong with X-Men: First Class, but misplaced and misplayed ambition, to say nothing of a massive misspent budget, comes to my nonmutant mind.”
-IMDB News