X-Men Movies

I first heard about X-Men when its first movie was released in summer of 2000.  Curious, I checked it out and liked it, because it taught good lessons and had a happy ending though I was a little upset of the traditional sexist role of the helpless female being rescued by a handsome male.

The following months, I heard about the X-Men cartoons that had been around for quite some time, and in 2003, I went to see X2: X-Men United.  It had a good story with more characters introduced, but I didn’t like how one of the characters drowned at the end, which nearly drove me to tears.

I was happy to hear that she would be revived in X-Men 3: The Last Stand, which turned out to be a disappointment.  It had a poor plot with deaths of too many good characters.  That character had died in X-Men 2, only to come back to life and die again in X-Men 3.

The only good thing that came out of the X-Men movie series, especially the third part was humans and mutants learning to co-exist.  It may not seem realistic, but it’s a good influence to society in that it encourages people to accept differences and work toward making it reality.