This weeks movie review is the latest X-Men movie. First Class made me want to watch the first X-Men movie again, which is probably one of the best things a prequel can do. After watching the first movie again I decided that I actually preferred the prequel which is something that I never thought I'd say, especially after what George Lucas did to us. After Episodes I and II I walked into the theater for Episode III saying to myself, "I've got a bad feeling about this..."
The music was beautiful, composed by Henry Jackman. You may recognize Jackman from other movies. He composed the music for Monsters vs. Aliens and was a part of the music department that worked on The Dark Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. During the opening scene in the concentration camps with Magnito he wove the score of the original X-Men movie by Michael Kayman into his own score.
Speaking of that first scene, the idea to take the opening scene from the first movie and tweak it to work with this new X-Men movie: pure genius. They cut it down from the original and worked it into the faster pace of this new movie. Then it cuts to the introduction of the evil Kevin Bacon.
Either he is good at acting evil or he actually is an evil person. I can't be sure. I don't care who you are, Kevin Bacon is just an evil lookin dude. He is a great villain that you just love to hate. River Wild anyone? Who's with me?
Also, in closing I just have to give a shout out to all the sideburns in this movie. The movie takes place primarily in the 60s around the Cuban Missile crisis. The fashion and the technology was all vintage Austin Powers, not to mention the upholstery of Kevin Bacon's evil supervillain submarine. The living room in the submarine was easily any 1960s James Bond villain's dream come true. But the award for best sideburns in this film go to Kevin Bacon (Unless you count the brief but memorable appearance of Hugh Jackman). Honorable mention go to Charles Xavier and Magnito for their sideburns contribution.
