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Bryan Singer Interview Theatrical Trailer& TV Spots X-Men Soundtrack Promo Fox Special "The Mutant Watch X-Men Featurette Hugh Jackman's Screentest Animatics Art Gallery Language: Menu: Aspect Ratio: Sound Tracks Region: Running Time: DVD Media:
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Based
around the old TV series and aged comics, X-Men will sort of bring
back memories of the cartoon series to the fans. For me I only saw
a couple of the cartoons, and was happy to be able to point the
characters out in the film. Although compare X-Men to the cartoon
and it becomes clear that the movie is trying much harder to appease
the varied audience ages.
We start with the cast, Starring none other than Patrick Stewart yes the one from the 90's Star Trek. He becomes the main character, partnered to Hugh Jackman who will play Wolverine in the movie. Patrick will be playing a crippled "Professor", and the other side-characters will be Storm, Cyclops and Mystique.  From
the beginning we see Rogue and Wolverine meeting in a Bar, she hitch hikes
with him to be confronted by two of Magnto's allies who wish to capture
Rogue and use her to turn all the world into Mutants. You see the world
has become run over with mutants, these have he interesting life aspect
of being able to do inhuman things, walk through walls, read minds and
so on. Most of the normal humans are having doubts to this new race, and
wish to consider the effects of mutants on normal life. The mutant race
fall into two portions, the ones who wish to defend themselves from the
humans and the ones who wish to make them understand that the differences
are meagre.It turns out the former portion aided by Magneto wish to turn the largest world leaders into mutants so that the world will tolerate them. It makes for quite a remarkable story which mixes the features of the cartoon with the reasons "why?". Though many will feel the movie is just a cash in, but it still makes for an entertaining show with plenty of special effects and okay acting. It is quite well produced with a lot of work going into the costume design and look of the movie. Video Quality The
movies 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen master converted to DVD looks
sharp and detailed. The first sequence using a Nazi concentration
camp has rather dulled colours, the rest of the movie has a rather
fine looking colour range. The costume's really benefit from the
brightness of the colour range. The contrast levels are quite good,
for most of the movie the images seen quite dark, this is helped
no doubt but the detail levels which are impressive.
Considering the amount of extras used on the disc, the compression is very well done, there are no artefacts of any such, noise levels are fair, the output is a little underdone, still it makes for sharp and crisp visualisations. Audio Quality The
audio quality is pretty good, at first the vocals seem slightly
low in volume, this could be to enhance the dynamic range, as most
of the action sequences use explosive which need a lot of bass and
loudness to get the edge across. However most of the action sequences
use very crisp and enhanced sound effects. These sound effects in
particular seem finely produced. The gun sequence in particular
where the front line of cops are held with their own guns shows
the very fine quality the audio section has.
There is no DTS track, though there is two audio languages to chose from, and the Dolby Digital track is pretty fine. Surround action is very good although not enough use of PCM for my tastes. The front speakers aren't used quite enough and the rears don't get enough loudness. Extras There
are plenty of stills and animatics which make up for plenty of extras.
The trailers and biographies and interviews are all well produced.
It's nice to see the actors in unedited light, and the screens are
plentiful too. All in all there is plenty to do, it even makes up
for the short movie time.
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