The fantastic and at times deliciously nihilistic world of X2 is fully, believably three-dimensional.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
X2 sparkles with a lightness of spirit that was missing from ''X-Men.''Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
My chief complaint is that these mutants are a little--well, vanilla. I wish the X-Men had a touch of kinkiness to go with their weird abilities.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Brisk and involving with a streamlined forward propulsion, it's the kind of superhero movie we want if we have to have superhero movies at all.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
Funny, reasonably crazy, and unpretentiously faithful to its source.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Visually, X2 is a sight to behold, with impressive special effects and a dynamic sense of place.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Perhaps in the next generation a mutant will appear named Scribbler, who can write a better screenplay for them.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
A summer firecracker. It's also a tribute to outcasts -- teens, gays, minorities, even Dixie Chicks. It's not without thought or feeling, except when its mind gets bent by the gods of box office. Then it's craven and empty.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
As it is, most of X2's action is restricted to the Northeast Corridor, with a climactic face-off in the western Rockies, where, in typical blockbuster fashion, everything goes kablooey and ka-bam.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
Mr. Singer and his collaborators grasp that comic books, for all their obligatory fights and explosions, are at bottom about their brave, troubled, impossibly muscled characters.Read Full Review »
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