John’s Movie Musings

It’s a sad reality that comic and/or fantasy stories rarely get treated with respect.  It’s unfortunate because most of those stories are filled with deep, engaging themes that connect on multiple levels.  When a director makes it a point to respoect the source material, we get movies like The Lord of the Rings and the latest Batman flicks.  On the other side of that coin, we get movies that make Michael Bay happy.

Because Brian Singer wanted to make great, character-driven comic movies, the first two X-Men stand as some of the best ever.  Then he left to go make a crappy Superman movie that everyone is still trying to forget.  X3 tried to be good, but came off mostly like a celebrity look-alike.  X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the fourth in the series, redefines crap.  It’s so bad, Uwe Boll would have made a better movie.

If you recall, the first X-Men focused on Wolvy’s backstory.  Wolverine is not a reboot of the franchise and still stars Hugh “All the Ladies Want Me” Jackman, so logic would say that the two backstories should fit together.  But they don’t.  This backstory has Wolverine and Sabertooth as brothers.  And no, it doesn’t make any sense, nor do they try to explain it.  And there are a host of other canonical errors that would cause any X-Men fan to rend his box of Raisinettes in two.

Then there’s the CGI effects.  This being the fourth X-Men movie, all of which have starred Wolverine, I would expect the claw effects to be the routine job you give the interns.  Here, they look like they were done with MS Paint.

And lastly, there’s a special scene at the end of the credits.  Usually, these are gifts to the audience for reading a bunch of names.  Wolverine’s parting gift is like one last fart to the face after being defecated on for two hours.

Grade: F