- Actors: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender
- Directors: Matthew Vaughn
- Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: September 9, 2011
When Bryan Singer brought Marvel's X-Men to the big screen, Magneto and
Professor X were elder statesmen, but Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) travels
back in time to present an origin story--and an alternate version of
history. While Charles Xavier (Laurence Belcher) grows up privileged in
New York, Erik Lehnsherr (Bill Milner) grows up underprivileged in
Poland. As children, the mind-reading Charles finds a friend in the
shape-shifting Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) and Erik finds an enemy in
Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), an energy-absorbing Nazi scientist who
treats the metal-bending lad like a lab rat. By 1962, Charles (James
McAvoy) has become a swaggering genetics professor and Erik (Michael
Fassbender, McAvoy's Band of Brothers costar) has become a brooding
agent of revenge. CIA agent Moira (Rose Byrne) brings the two together
to work for Division X. With the help of MIB (Oliver Platt) and Hank (A
Single Man's Nicholas Hoult), they seek out other mutants, while fending
off Shaw and Emma Frost (Mad Men's January Jones), who try to recruit
them for more nefarious ends, leading to a showdown in Cuba between the
United States and the Soviet Union, the good and bad mutants, and
Charles and Erik, whose goals have begun to diverge. Throughout, Vaughn
crisscrosses the globe, piles on the visual effects, and juices the
action with a rousing score, but it's the actors who make the biggest
impression as McAvoy and Fassbender prove themselves worthy successors
to Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. The movie comes alive whenever they
take center stage, and dies a little when they don't. For the most
part, though, Vaughn does right by playing up the James Bond parallels
and acknowledging the debt to producer Bryan Singer through a couple of
clever cameos. --
Kathleen C. Fennessy
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