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...biggest drawback of the first installment of the X-Men franchise was its obligation to introduce the comic book series’ numerous characters and their personal histories. A good deal of action and plot development was sacrificed so that mutant after mutant could be paraded across the screen, accompanied by brief biographies and demonstrations of their superpowers. While crucial for filmgoers who had never before explored the X-Men universe, the novelty of seeing each ability on the big screen eventually wore off, and the audience was left with too much hype and not enough...
...X-Men United heaves aside concerns about the recurrence of similar problems, with the sequel immediately plunging the viewer into an intense, thoroughly gripping action sequence: the president is under attack by a mysterious creature that has broken into the White House. Unfortunately, the creature can dodge secret service guards’ bullets by disappearing into thin air and reappearing elsewhere moments later, an effect that is pulled off seamlessly. Director Brian Singer never forfeits his trust in the moviegoers’ attention spans, preferring the long, focused shot to the edit-crazy butchering of a Jerry Bruckheimer film...
...assassination attempt kicks off a series of subplots that conveniently breaks up the team of X-Men. Familiar characters Storm (Halle Berry) and Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) take off for Boston to retrieve the would-be assassin, while Cyclops (James Marsden) and Professor X (Patrick Stewart) pay a visit to the still-imprisoned misanthropic villain Magneto. Meanwhile, the frightened President is confronted by a McCarthy-like figure named General Stryker (Brian Cox), whose goal, we later learn, is to eradicate mutants from the face of the earth. Stryker is more powerful and knowledgeable than he seems and may even hold...
...MCKELLEN is sitting backstage at London's Lyric Theatre, a prestigious venue that overlooks the Windmill strip club in sex-driven Soho. Far from being perturbed by the district, or even the cockroach trap on his dressing-room floor, the star of The Lord of the Rings and The X-Men - two of Hollywood's biggest franchises - is gleeful about returning to the West End after 13 years to perform in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, which opens March 4. "I'm so excited about working in this street," he says. "The strip club is next door...
...wins, right? Not if sales figures are a measure of superstrength. When Yugi and a bizarre cast of fellow manga characters debuted in the U.S. last month in the Japanese mangazine Shonen Jump, pre- and postpubescent consumers snatched up all 250,000 copies with a WHOOOSH! Not even the X-Men are a match for Shonen Jump; issues of the most popular U.S. comic books rarely see print runs of more than 150,000. "It's a crazy amount of sales," says Robert Bricken, managing editor of the New York-based comic fanzine Anime Insider. "By all indications [Shonen Jump...