I watched the movie X2: X-Men United. This movie stars Anna Paquin (Fly Away Home), Hugh Jackman (Kate & Leopold), Patrick Stewart (Charlie's Angels), James Marsden (Sugar & Spice), and Shawn Ashmore (Cadet Kelly).
Several months have passed since the X-Men defeated Magneto and imprisoned him in a seemingly impregnable plastic chamber, when anti-mutant Colonel William Stryker kidnaps Professor X and attacks his school, the X-Men must ally with their archenemy Magneto to stop him.
I give this movie 3 out of 5 stars.
This is my favorite X-Men movie.
Fun Facts:
- During a talk show interview, Hugh Jackman related a story about something that happened during the filming of the Weapon X flashback scene: while he was filming the corridor run (in which he is nude and backlit), he turned the corner and saw the female cast members, and also James Marsden's Mom, waiting for him, hooting and waving dollar bills.
- When Rogue falls out of the jet, the stunt was performed by Anna Paquin, not a stunt double.
- Sir Ian McKellen worked with the screenwriters to make the scene in which Bobby Drake tells his parents he is a mutant to look more like a common gay "coming-out" scene.
- During filming, Hugh Jackman's sister visited the set. As a joke, she was made-up in Jackman's full Wolverine costume and make-up, and walked around the set. Apparently, she was very convincing as Jackman. The director was not aware that it was not Jackman in the Wolverine costume, and commented of her work during shooting that "Hugh is acting very strangely today."
- Rebecca Romijn's make-up took five hours to apply as opposed to nine for the previous movie.
- Alan Cumming had to endure ten hours of make-up to become Nightcrawler.