X-Men Trilogy
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The X-Men film trilogy is based on the popular Marvel Comics strip, The X-Men, created by Stan Lee. The series consists of X-Men, X2, and X-Men: The Last Stand. The series was generally welcomed by fans. The first two films were directed by Bryan Singer, while the third was directed by Brett Ratner.
MSN Movies ranks the first X-Men film as the best supehero movie to date. the list also included Batman Returns, Spider-Man, The Incredibles, Superman II, Darkman, Hellboy, and more.
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[edit] Plot
- Further information: X-Men, X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand
The trilogy is bit more realistic than the comics, and have a very big difference in the events chronology and the events themselves.
The trilogy take more focus on the mutant Wolverine, who is appeared in the beginning of the first film when he met Rogue. Later they joined the X-Men team alongside with Storm, Cyclops, Jean Grey, and under the lead of Professor Charles Xavier. The X-Men fighting for the safety of the mutants, and bringing young mutants to the Xavier Mansion, when they learning to control their super-human powers and to use them for protecting the outside world that fears and hates them. Wolverine and the other X-Men (few more X-Men every film) joining every time in the never-ending battle against The Brotherhood, a group of mutants who acts against the humanity and the government.
[edit] The Movies
[edit] X-Men (2000)
[edit] X2: X-Men United (2003)
[edit] X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
[edit] Spin-Offs
[edit] Wolverine
[edit] Magneto
[edit] Themes
Althrough the trilogy is under the genre of Science-Fiction and Action, it has themes of politics, emotions, power, control, and past. Althrough it has all of these themes, the trilogy isn't under the genre of Drama.
[edit] Cast & Characters
[edit] X-Men
The X-Men is a taskforce from the Xavier Institute, charged with protecting both humans and mutants and trying to prevent a war between the two.
- Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine: Logan can heal quickly, a talent which allowed the painful implantation of a metal coating on his bones and metal claws that emerge from each hand. He mourns Jean Grey, whom he misses.
- Halle Berry as Ororo Munroe / Storm: She can control the weather and fly. Halle Berry stated during interviews for X2 that she would not return as Storm in the third film unless the character had a significant presence comparable to the comic-book version. Brett Ratner also felt Storm required a larger role and there was little difficulty reaching an agreement.[1]
- Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier: The founder of the Xavier Institute, with powerful telepathic powers.
- Famke Janssen as Jean Grey: A former member of the X-Men who sacrificed herself to save her comrades. She possesses great telekinetic and telepathic powers. After being revived, her powers consume her and she joins the Brotherhood.
- Anna Paquin as Marie / Rogue: A runaway mutant who has found a home at Xavier's school and love with Bobby Drake. When she touches someone she absorbs their strength, their powers, and, if not careful, their life.
- Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy / Beast: A former student of Xavier's School who is now the Secretary of Mutant Affairs in the U.S. government. The Beast is covered in blue fur and has a genius level I.Q., and heightened strength and agility. Filmmakers considered using the Beast character since the first X-Men movie, but budget constraints ruled him out; however, Steve Bacic is identified as Hank McCoy when he appears on a television screen in a cameo role in X2.
- Alan Cumming as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler: A German Catholic mutant with the ability to teleport. His appearance is demonic, however he's a kind-hearted and passifistic man. He has only appeared in X2, but he's the one of the three main characters in X-Men: The Official Game.
- James Marsden as Scott Summers / Cyclops: The X-Men's field leader, who is devastated by the death of Jean Grey. He emits powerful energy blasts from his eyes.
- Shawn Ashmore as Bobby Drake / Iceman: He can control the temperature of the moisture in the air around him to create constructs of ice or blasts of cold. Under extreme conditions, his body may take on many of the characteristics of ice in addition to those of a human.
- Ben Foster as Warren Worthington III / Angel: He has angelic wings which allow him to fly. Cayden Boyd plays Warren as a child.
- Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde: She can "phase" through objects, which allows her to walk through walls and float through floors.
- Daniel Cudmore as Peter Rasputin / Colossus: He can transform his skin into metal, granting increased strength and a resistance to damage.
[edit] Brotherhood of Mutants
- Ian McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto: Master of magnetism, Holocaust survivor, and would-be conqueror, Magneto wages war against humanity in the name of mutant superiority, a goal that often pits him against his old friend Charles Xavier.
- Rebecca Romijn as Raven Darkholme / Mystique: Magneto's blue-skinned right-hand woman can shapeshift to appear as anyone and can fight with incredible agility and strength.
- Tyler Mane as Sabretooth: One of the first Brotherhood members, he has feline-like abilities and senses. He was blasted through the head of the Statue of Liberty by Cyclops following a brief battle with Wolverine.
- Ray Park as Toad: Toad is also one of the first Brotherhood members. He has frog-like abilities, including a prehensile tongue, incredible jumping abilities, and the ability to stick to surfaces. He is blown into the sea around Liberty Island by Storm after she shocks him through his tongue with lightning.
- Aaron Stanford as John Allerdyce / Pyro: Former Xavier Institute student Pyro can manipulate fire but cannot create it. He holds a grudge against his former friend Bobby Drake.
- Vinnie Jones as Cain Marko / Juggernaut: The Juggernaut is a new recruit to the Brotherhood. When he starts moving, it is nearly impossible to stop him.
- Dania Ramirez as Callisto: Callisto possesses superhuman speed. She can sense the powers of other mutants, and locate them.
- Eric Dane as Jamie Madrox / Multiple Man: Multiple Man can split himself into multiple copies. He is a criminal who joins the Brotherhood upon their releasing him.
- Omahyra Mota as Philippa Sontag / Arclight: Arclight can generate seismic energies around her hands that cause shockwaves and earth tremors.
- Ken Leung as Quill (erroneously called Kid Omega in the credits): Quill has porcupine-like spikes over his entire body which he can retract or extend at will.
- Mei Melançon as Elisabeth Braddock / Psylocke: Psylocke is a ninja assassin that has the ability to teleport herself through shadows as well as telepathic/telekinetic abilities (unshown in film).
[edit] Other characters
- Brian Cox as Colonel William Stryker: Stryker is the head of Weapon X, a project dedicated to experimenting on mutants. Stryker is hardly responsible for Wolverine's shadowed past, he also used his mutant son Jason Stryker to control Xavier's mind.
- Kelly Hu as Yuriko Oyama / Lady Deathstrike: Althrough she's a mutant, she's part of the Weapon X Project. She has the same mutant abilities Wolverine does. She is Stryker's bodyguard in the film.
- Bruce Davison as Senator Robert Kelly: Senator Kelly is an anti-mutant believer. He is kidnapped by Magneto and subjected to a process that transforms him into a mutate (although he is erroneously called a mutant in the X-Men movie) with the ability to polymerise himself. Unknown to all, the process is ultimately fatal, and Kelly dies in the custody of the X-Men. He was subsequently impersonated by Mystique in X2.
- Michael Murphy as Warren Worthington II: He is the Head of Worthington Labs, the corporation developing the "cure". He is also Angel's father and wants to rid his son of his mutant abilities.
- Cameron Bright as Jimmy / Leech: A mutant boy whose power cancels the powers of nearby mutants. His DNA is the basis for the "cure". After being rescued, he is admitted to the Xavier Institute.
- Shohreh Aghdashloo as Dr. Kavita Rao: Rao is the inventor of the mutant cure, which she created with the DNA of Leech.
[edit] X-Men: The Official Game (2006)
X-Men: The Official Game is a 2006 tie-in videogame that covers the events between X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand. The only three playable characters are Wolverine (voiced by Hugh Jackman), Nightcrawler (voiced by Alan Cumming), and Iceman (voiced by Shawn Ashmore). The game's plot explains why Nightcrawler left the X-Men and Pyro joined The Brotherhood.
