X-men Month: TV Retrospective - Wolverine and the X-men

We finish X-men month with a look at the most recent of the X-men animated series: Wolverine and the X-men

Released in 2009, this series was a kind of bridge between the X-men movies and the comics universe. There isn’t a lot of shared continuity between the movies and this comics, it’s more about design choices (Wolverine particularly looks like his Hugh Jackman counterpart and considerably taller than his comic counterpart)

Heralding this is a focus on Wolverine because of his popularity from 3 x-men movies and a solo movie coming out the same year. So, is it any good? Let’s take a look

X-men Month - Mini Review: X-men: First Class

If you thought we were done with prequels, you were wrong as they decided to look a little more in-depth at the relationship between Charles Xavier and Magneto that would ultimately lead them to become the ultimate frenemies.

X-men First Class was the 2011 entry to the X-men series, Bryan Singer is back but not as a director as he had other projects to attend to. He instead served as a co-writer and producer to the movie. The director? Michael Vaughn, the guy originally intending to direct the Last Stand.

Produced on an estimated $140-160m budget, they move was reasonably successful, earning $350m for Fox and that’s enough that persuaded them to continue on with the movie making and ultimately make 2 sequels to it (possibly more, you never know) one a hybrid with the old-x-men movies with the purpose of cutting out the originals from continuity.

It’s also the first X-men movie I ever watched. It was universally acclaimed at the time with an 86% rotten tomatoes rating, 65% on metacritic and an average 7.8/10 on IMDb. What’s my thoughts, well let’s take a look.