Just got home from seeing this tacky prequel to the X-men film franchise. In a word,abominable piece of crap. Not to mention, totally NOT CANON, dudes. But of course, if you talk to my dad, Wolverine himself isn't even canon. That's cause my dad is so old school he doesn't recognize him as one of the original X-men - that's Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, Beast and Jean Grey (western civilization had yet to innovate the female superhero moniker), all under the expert tutelage of Dr. X, in case you didn't know. Wolverine doesn't debut until 1974, 11 years after my father's tweenage years.
But I'm getting off topic. Hugh Jackman is undoubtedly a very good looking gentleman and, like fellow Hugh dreamboat Laurie, gets like +200 sexy points when he fakes an American accent. And one can forgive him for wanting to be Wolverine for as long as he can, because, seriously, that is the dream shared by the international nerd community. But this was just junk. Crappy dialogue, crappy premise, tenuous continuity. And while we do learn some fun facts (spoiler alert: his graft was a grift), it is this nerd's opinion that there's more fun to be gleaned from this excellent wikipedia scholarship and maybe some Netflixed saturday morning cartoons than from this nothing of a film. And the fact that I am recommending the internet and cartoons over some hollywood violence and explosions should confirm that I am indeed uncool enough to accurately evaluate this film.
And it's not that the deviations from the original story really bug me. Non-canon is okay with me; I even have my soft spot for the post-Jackman X-Men: Evolution cartoon. I just expect my crap to be good crap, that's all.
