We saw X Men 3 last night and might I say....blahhhhh! It was really close to being a good movie, but fell short in 3 areas.
1. First, and probably the most disturbing, was the choice of Kelsey Grammer to play "Hank" the governments Mutant liason. We have thought all of these years that he plays Frasier because it is a role he plays so well, but now we find out that for all these years it was actually the ONLY role he CAN play. He does not try to change or mask his regular speaking voice in any way. He delivered his lines, beastly make-up and all, no differently than he delivered his lines on Cheers 20 years ago. This causes a HUGE distraction in the movie since you are constantly asking yourself, "Why is Frasier all blue?"
2. The story was full of holes and you have continually tell yourself not to expect too much, since it IS, after all, based on a comic book. Still you find yourself constantly leaning to the person beside you to whisper, "Why didn't he just ________ ?"
3. For some reason this, the most violent and most sexually charged of the 3 films, constantly panders to a 6 year old's humor. The film was peppered with kitchy one liners at the end of fight scenes akin to, "Take that Butthead!" and even "Way to go furball!". Pretty cheesy and lame considering it's core audience of 15-25 year olds.
In all, I was pretty disappointed. You will probably still run out and see the movie in this first week, but at least I warned you.
