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"There’s been a lot of talk lately about all the mutant cameos appearing in the X-Men spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but we haven’t heard much about any characters set to show up in the other spin-off, X-Men Origins: Magneto. Until now. According to George “El Guapo” Roush at The Latino Review, the Magneto film will feature either Beast or Nightcrawler. The uncertainty over which lies in the fact that, while on a visit to a creature effects shop, Roush saw a photo (or rendering) of a blue-costumed character who he was told is a young Beast (played by Kelsey Grammar in X-Men: The Last Stand). Yet the character is described by Roush as having a tail, which suggests that the effects person was mistaken and that it’s really a young Nightcrawler (played by Alan Cumming in
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"I was with this movie for two thirds of the way. It is a vast improvement over the first installment in the franchise, taking itself a little less seriously than the first film. But in the movie's climax, it the rediculousnes of the premise comes out again, and the movie looses whatever credibility it had. Does anyone who sees this movie going to care about the plot? In brief, a raid on the X-Men school is ordered by William Stryker (Brian Cox) a goverment official who really, really hates mutants, resulting in the dispercal of the X-Men. Proffesor X (Patrick Stewart) and Cyclops (James Marsden) are captured, the rest are forced to team up with the arch-nemesis from the last movie, Magento (Sir Ian McKellen) and his associate, Mystique (Rebecca Romijn). The romantic triangle between Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Jean Grey (Famke Jansen) and Cyclops is developed, as is a burgrioning romance between Rouge (Anna Paquin) and Iceman (Shawn Ashnore). Also, a subplot involves a weird cr ... "
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"Bryan Singer may never work in Hollywood again. X2, his sequel to the flawed but popular X-Men, begins with a spectacular attack on the White House by one politically dissatisfied mutant. The blue-skinned, yellow-eyed Nightcrawler, he of hooved feet and prehensile tail, furiously plows his way through all the president's men en route to the big guy himself, doing much more damage than, say, an offhand expression of shame. But hey, it's summer in Tinseltown, and would-be boycott bellowers will likely be too busy popping Goobers to protest much. X2, like last year's Spider-Man, is a glorious kickoff to the popcorn season, a tightly assembled battle between Good and Evil full of wit and swagger. Whereas the first installment was meek by superhero standards--and, at a slight 104 minutes, too concerned with character introduction to gather momentum for a rip-roarin' yarn--the longer X2 luxuriates in its continuation. With the main players already in place, a smatt ... "
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