According to IMDB
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Movie Review:
X-Men: First Class” is an homage to the James Bond movies from the ’60s — you know, back when Bond was fun.
It’s got The Cold War, an epic confrontation between super-powers and a super-villain in a submarine. Matthew “Layer Cake” Vaughn sees to it that it’s a generally light take on back-engineering the struggle between the future Professor X and the future Magneto. Well-cast, well-acted and scripted so that its message of tolerance is front-and-center, this is pretty much all you’d want from two hours and 12 minutes of summer escape.
James McAvoy is young Charles Xavier, the fellow who reads minds and stumbles into the girl (Jennifer Lawrence) Raven, who makes him realize that he and she are not alone. They are “the next stage in human evolution.” It’s the 1940s, and in the age of the atom, humanity — some humans, anyway — are mutating.
One of them is half a world away. That’s where Erik Lehnsher (Bill Milner, then Michael Fassbender) is a Jew who survived the Holocaust because one Nazi in particular (Kevin Bacon) sees his talents and finds a way to train them.
Cut to years later, and Xavier is finishing up his degree at Oxford and Eric is chasing Nazis to the far ends of the Earth.
“Let’s just say I’m Frankenstein’s monster,” Erik growls to a couple of German expats in Argentina. “I’m looking for my CREATOR.”
The Plot: Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender) are two young men discovering their powers. Banding together with fellow mutants to stop a threat to the world, a rift grows between the two forces, leading to the founding of Professor X's X-Men and Magneto's Brotherhood, and the beginning of their eternal war.
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X-Men: First Class -- A character trailer for X-Men: First Class
X-Men: First Class -- A clip from X-Men: First Class
X-Men: First Class -- Interview: "Jennifer Lawrence On How Raven Feels About Being A Mutant"
X-Men: First Class -- TV Spot: Mystique
X-Men: First Class -- A character trailer for X-Men: First Class
X-Men: First Class - Official Trailer
X-Men: First Class - Official Trailer
THE BUZZ: Just over a decade after X-Men comes this rather welcome prequel, with Bryan Singer in active producer mode and director Matthew Vaughn finally in the Marvel Universe. Ten years ago, your typical cab driver lacked the power to start a casting rumor, and we never would have thought Brett Ratner would help bring a franchise crashing to the ground. May this decade bring hope for a continuation of the original series and a good Wolverine sequel.
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