The relentless X2: X-Men United brought true action to the series, before hitting the skids with The Last Stand and the writer’s strike-afflicted X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
A bit tall to play Wolvy, but he had the chops (and literally, the muttonchops). Oh, and capture some lightning-in-a-bottle casting with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Meanwhile, the X-Men proved the ensemble superhero movie could work: Just take off the yellow spandex, add some millennium-era leather, and retain the franchise’s outsider allegories. In the world of superhero movies post– Batman & Robin implosion, Spider-Man showed they could still be fun, Batman Begins demonstrated gravitas, and Blade got its cut with R-rated gruesomeness.
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