I can come up with several words to describe this movie .... How about for starters ... HYPE! If ever there was a movie that became a 'Box Office Hit' off of hype, this would be it. I read and heard all these things about this picture two years before it was released and had like everyone else, waited for it with baited breath. What I got when I saw it, was complete and utter dissapointment. I've never seen so much chopped up and thrown together mess in my entire life. Which begs the question ... 'If you aren't going to do it right, why bother?'

None of the archs fit ... at all. Wolverine and Sabretooth are now 'BROTHERS!' Come on! Silver Fox and the White Queen are SISTERS?! Give me a break! The last I saw Silver Fox was Native American and the White Queen was either Caucasian or European decent. So how is the fact that this movie made them sisters even possible? Heck, all through the movie Silver Fox/Kayla referred back to her Native American Heritage. HELLO?! Then out of the blue she has this blonde hair/blue eye/pale sister. I guess the writers and producers didn't think anyone would notice. Let me be the first to raise my hand ... 'I noticed.'

Normally, I would be absolutely thrilled to have seen Gambit on the big screen. It's bad enough that he was ignored through the first three X-Movies alone. But Taylor Kitsch's version of him was horrible. He wasn't as smart, cunning or as agile. And there was the fact that he could not catch and hold the New Orleans/French accent at all. Don't they have voice coaches on movies? He came off more Southern rather than Cajun. I guess he got tired of even trying because toward the end of the movie, he just stopped speaking Southern and started speaking with his normal 'American' accent voice. Duh!

I recall and interview I seen of Taylor Kitsch talking about  his part in X-Men Origins: Wolverine on IGN.com. The interviewer asked him if he was worried about playing such a beloved character that everyone knows from the comics. He said yes and because of that he was going to do his best to portray Gambit as he appear in the comics. Well good job on that Taylor. You totally missed the mark.

I'm going to ask this of the production staff from the movie, but how hard would it have been to give Taylor Kitsch the Black/Red eyes? No more longer than he was on screen they could have CGI'd them in if the actor could not have tolerated color contacts.

And whose idea was it to give Gambit a hat? He has never ever worn a hat. He had the cowl, but that was it. Oh and since Gambit was in this film, if you fast forward to current time of the X-Movies, wouldn't that make him in his mid to late forties? Oh let me guess ... he has retarded aging too ... right?

And if in the movie, Gambit was suppose to not want to go back to the island and knew Victor Creed was the one that took him there, Why was he still trying to fight Wolverine with Victor standing right there behind him? That made absolutely no sense at all. I found myself in the theater talking back to the screen, "Hey! Wait a minute ...! WHO WROTE THIS CRAP?!" Needless to say, it took me a moment to calm down.

The character of Scott Summers should not have been introduced here either. Scott came to the X-Men from the orphanage, not high school. Duh?! And where did they get this 'wienie' little guy to play him?

Aging films never works. Hugh Jackman was not younger in this film, he appeared much older, only because he was. Now how is that going to work if this all was suppose to have happen in Wolverine's past. Oh I know ... "Forget what you see and be blind to a little thing call 'consistency'." Yeah, right.

Why in the world did they bring Xavier into this? Then turn around a supperimpose Patrick Stewart's head on someone else's body. That was awful. Whomever the person was in charge of this scene blew it. You could see where the head was stuck on the different body as plain as the nose on your face. This was horrible and borderline laughable.

So all of this took place on Three Mile Island.  Hum? OK, so all that business about Alkalied Lake in the other three X-Movies was wrong? Yeah ... that makes sense just about as much as every thing else in this movie.

Deal Pool? It's my understanding that now they plan to make a Deal Pool Movie. O.K. However, since Deal Pool is a ongoing current character in the comics, how is this new movie possible since his head was cut off in Wolverine Origins? The last I saw, there was no mutation for growing your head back. Can anyone say, 'Oops!'

Would it have hurt anyone to have at least 'read' the comics? Because as a fan of comics, especially the X-Men, I expect to see my comics come to life when a movie is done on them. Not a bunch of misplaced Hollywood CRAP that's only meant to sell tickets!

The only thing I can say good about this picture was that Hugh Jackman was naked a great deal of time. I'm gonna give props where they are due, the man has one kick-_ss body. ;-D

In summation, I thought this movie STUNK ON ICE! It introduced needlessly, several 'well known' characters in order to try to plug the holes in the storyline. That NEVER WORKS! So why bother?!

I would 'never' buy it for any reason. It can be in the quick sale bin at Wallie World for $5.00 and I wouldn't buy it. Heck, it can be in the $1.00 bin at Big Lots and I still wouldn't buy it. If anything I'd go to the movie theater and demand my money back and compensation for the studio waisting 107 minutes of my time.

Also, let me say that I have never seen more slower and 'uglier' bunch of super heroes in my life. The women were all gorgeous, but the men look like they came out of a 'B' rated porn flick. And what's with all the nakedness. Was that even necessary? Did that make them a super hero because they were all willing to walk around in their 'altogether'? I don't think so, so why bother? 

And as for their powers, no one had any except Dr. Manhattan, which left me wondering, what's he doing with these bunch of losers? Now I know what you are going to argue ... Batman doesn't have any powers. Yeah, I know. But Batman is so cool with his persona that it doesn't matter. These guys needed something more outside hand to hand combat and mask. Decent personalities wouldn't have hurt.

And why were the women all shown as either whores or lesbians? Maybe that's the writers explanation for not getting a date? Because trust me, whomever came up with this spends a lot of time alone. 

And what's with the Owl? He can only make love to a woman after he's had his owl suit on and flown around in the 'owl-mobile', which btw resembled a large furby? At least, that's the way it appeared to me. And if you had to 'bang' a woman, would you do it with a woman whose boyfriend could vaporize you with a thought?

The character named, 'The Comedian' was a total butthole. Thank goodness they killed him off first. I couldn't stand him. He went around killing and raping all he wanted and the others just stood there like, "Oh, that's just his way." And ignored it! His tail should have been knocked off earlier in his storyline. I would have cheered. 

The one they called Verdict was suppose to be the smartest and richest man in the world that was fast enough to catch a bullet. Emphasis on 'a' bullet. When he was shot, why didn't they shoot him again because he hardly caught the first bullet, the second definitely would have killed him. Instead they stood there and watched him kick the crap out of the heroin. Made no sense.

And Dr. Manhattan was suppose to be so smart that he thought on an entire different plain than everyone else. If that's true, how did he 'not' know he was replicating his own powers when he was constructing this massive bomb? Again, this made no sense at all.

In conclusion, no wonder this flick didn't make it in the theaters. Because it litterally 'STUNK ON ICE! And whomever came up with this crap shows their total disrespect for women and is in severe need of a shrink. When they weren't being raped or getting their brains banged out, they were being slapped around. (shivering in distaste).

After reading my own review, I changed my mind. I am pissed that I rented it. 

This movie is a little darker than the 1st one, but it fits with the inclusion of  the Joker's character, played flawlessly by the late Heath Ledger. After seeing his performance, there's no wonder they are talking Oscars for his role. For those of you who may think they (the Academy) may feel sorry because he is dead and that's why they are talking about 'Oscar', you have definitely not seen this movie. He enjoyed playing the Joker. You could tell that he got caught up in the role, you would have to in order to play it as well as he did.

Christian Bale did a good job too. However, at the beginning of the picture he looked way too thin. Further into it, he started looking more like himself. But his performance was overshadowed by Ledgers.

Morgan Freeman stepped easily back into his role as Luscious Fox; as did Micheal Cain in his role as Alfred the Butler.

Oh! Aaron Eckhart was great as Two Face.

With all of this consistency, it makes me wonder why Katie Holmes didn't come back as Rachel Dawes? I have a theory on this but can't disclose it without spoiling part of the plot.

This is a definite 'BUY' when the DVD comes out.

I thought the opening was rushed and choppy and not necessary because they still showed every thing later in the movie.

I thought there would have been a better connection if Edward Norton had actually looked like the Hulk, which he didn't. That was a big 'NO' in my book. And this Bolunsky fellow looked like a drip. What millitary let you walk around in dressed blues with a two day old beard? And to me, the guy looked like he could use a dose of Boniva. And it never was clear if the 'General' ever knew that the Abomination was actually 'Bolunsky'?

My other gripe is, why did they show Mr. Blue/Dr. Samuel start to mutate then did nothing with it? That made no sense at all. Was that suppose to be some kind of prequel to another movie?

Betty kept telling her father, The General, "I hate you!" "You are not my father!" Then at the end they were all back huggy. I guess it takes a helicopter crash to make you forget your dad just mutated the crap out of the love of your life.

All of this aside, I did like the movie. The CGI was off the chart and Edward Norton's performance was really good too. There was a lot of chemistry between him and 'Betty'. Like I said, I liked it.