X-Men (Movie Review)

Allow me to clarify one thing from the outset: I am not an X-Men fan. I don't read the comics, I don't watch the cartoon. I am, of course, aware of them-a good friend of mine is a big fan-but I don't know the personal histories of Professor X or Storm. If you're hoping for a comparison between the movie and the comic book, I'm afraid I will disappoint you. I only intend to focus on the film and what it means from a social point of view.

X-Men is more than just a comic book translated to the big screen. In many ways it may be more fantasy than SF-but it captures the SF spirit by tackling the social issues and portraying both a past and future state of the human condition. It does so in a way that reaches not only adults but children, too. Children won't be looking for the lesson, of course, (I recently read a review of the film at Amazon where someone's big peeve wit the film was that "the Wolverine and Sabretooth fight at the end should have been 10 times cooler"), but they might get something out of it still.

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What might they get out of it? Well, let's talk about Professor X, Storm, Wolverine, Toad, and, of course, Magneto. Oh, Magneto. What a way to open the film. Patrick Stewart's magnificent voice-over gives way to the dreary gray of 1944 Poland. It's not only a dark day for the

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