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X-Men 1.5/X-Men 2: 4 disc doublepack [DVD] [2003]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5039036015042
Label : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publisher : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date : 2003-11-10
Title : X-Men 1.5/X-Men 2: 4 disc doublepack [DVD] [2003]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : PAL
Languages : Array
Number of items : 4
Original release date : 2003-05-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 228
Studio : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 2003-05-02
Number of discs : 4

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
IX-Men 2/I picks up almost directly where IX-Men/I left off: misguided super-villain Magneto (Ian McKellan) is still a prisoner of the US government, heroic bad-boy Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is up in Canada investigating his mysterious origin, and the events at Liberty Island (which occurred at the conclusion of IX-Men/I) have prompted a rethink in official policy towards mutants--the proposed Mutant Registration Act has been shelved by US Congress. Into this scenario pops wealthy former Army commander William Stryker, a man with the President's ear and a personal vendetta against all mutant-kind in general, and the X-Men's leader Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in particular. Once he sets his plans into motion, the X-Men must team-up with their former enemies Magneto and Mystique (Rebecca Romjin-Stamos), as well as some new allies (including Alan Cumming's gregarious, blue-skinned German mutant, Nightcrawler). p The phenomenal global success of IX-Men/I meant that director Bryan Singer had even more money to spend on its sequel, and it shows. Not only is the script better (there's significantly less cheesy dialogue than the original), but the action and effects are also even more stupendous--from Nightcrawler's teleportation sequence through the White House to a thrilling aerial dogfight featuring mutants-vs-missiles to a military assault on the X-Men's school/headquarters to the final showdown at Stryker's sub-Arctic headquarters. Yet at no point do the effects overtake the film or the characters. Moreso than the original, this is an ensemble piece, allowing each character in its even-bigger cast at least one moment in the spotlight (in fact, the cast credits don't even run until the end of the film). And that, perhaps, is part of its problem (though it's a slight one)--with so much going on, and nary a recap of what's come before, it's a film that could prove baffling to anyone who missed the first installment. But that's just a minor quibble--IX-Men 2/I is that rare thing, a sequel that's actually superior to its predecessor. I--Robert Burrow/I

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-05-17 rating:

Achtung falsche Beschreibung
Entgegen der Amazon Beschreibung zu diesem Film ist die DVD nur in Englisch, Deutsch und Italienisch sind nicht enthalten ! br /

review by: Mariam Zahedi date: 2009-01-06 rating:

Greatest Comic Book Film Ever?
X-Men 2 is everything the first X-Men film was and more. The plot is intelligent, fast paced, multi-layered, surprising and meanigful, the acting is quite simply superb (even the actors who did a poor job in X-Men seemed to have improved dramatically here), the script is 1000 times better than the first film, the length is far more suitable so events don't feel rushed, the character development is interesting, and the focus on a larger range of characters and their difficulties in being a mutant in the normal world explored very well. I have to make a special mention for Alan Cumming who played Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler because his acting was some of the best I've seen in a long time - he totally became the character and was utterly believeable. A must watch - incredible.

review by: A soul doctor, so to say date: 2008-10-21 rating:

Evil is always defeated, or at least contained
This second opus is bringing the war inside the human camp because one military scientist who had had the chance, though not to his taste, of having a mutant son and who had manipulated him so much that he had managed to take complete control of him, is provoking, or at least trying to, an open war of total destruction against the mutants. This time bad and good mutants unite to defeat that man though the bad mutants take over the game of the bad human and redirect the weapon from total destruction of mutants to total destruction of human beings. This drastic situation is saved in due time and just in time by the good mutants though the bad ones manage to escape and the good ones must sacrifice one of themselves to assure the escape. That will be essential later and it builds a promise because the death of a hero is always compensated by his or her resurrection, generally in that type of literature with an inverted personality. But the film is well built, the special effects are interesting, rich and at times funny. The dramatic tension is perfect and the President of the USA who was going to declare the state of emergency to take control of the mutants is informed by the good mutants about the actions of his mad scientist, and also head of some kind of national security, and we understand this President of the USA changes his ideas and convictions and moves towards a compromise with the mutants. But of course we know it can't last since the President was more or less forced to act that way and the bad mutants are still out there somewhere plotting evil. br / br /Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines br /

review by: Stuff lover date: 2008-07-30 rating:

Exemplary
The introductions had been done in the perfunctory but enjoyable X-Men leaving room in the sequel to expand both the roster and the ideas in the movie. The comic book franchise is always at its best when the enemy the team is fighting is the nebulous concept of prejudice rather than just pounding on another super villain (even if it is the gloriously conceptualised Magneto) and Bryan Singer wisely uses that here making one of the best Marvel films to date. br / br /Based on the critically acclaimed God Loves, Man Kills storyline featured in the X-Men comics this film sees the eponymous heroes facing an increasing tide of fear and intolerance amongst the human race. The situation has reached balance point with politicians unsure what to do as relates to the "mutant menace" after Magneto's plot in the previous film. Unscrupulous military man William Stryker seizes on an assassination attempt against the President of the US to lead an attack on Xavier's School, and in the course of it reveals he knows more of Wolverine's past than the man himself does. At the same time Magneto makes his escape from his special plastic prison (in an absolutely amazing and stunningly shot sequence) and finds himself facing a common enemy with his erstwhile foes. br / br /Ian McKellan is, once again, fantastic as Magneto and gets all the best lines in the movie. The scenes where he seduces young Pyro to his cause are fantastic and his slightly camp, bitchy asides ("we love what you've done with your hair") flesh the Master of Magnetism out even more. Brian Cox is similarly charismatic and commanding as Stryker while Patrick Stewart gets taken out of things too soon (a recurring theme in the series). Shawn Ashmore and Aaron Stanforth are well cast as the yin and yang pairing of Iceman and Pyro. The best of the new characters though is Nightcrawler, played with astonishing sensitivity by Alan Cumming under layers of makeup. None of the cast are disappointing (even Halle Berry) and most are pretty decent. br / br /The movie's mix of action and message is well-judged. The opening scene with Nightcrawler making an attempt on the President's life is absolutely stunning and all of the fight scenes are well choreographed and do not outstay their welcome. Equally the segments of the film that dwell on the nature of prejudice and the way that even those we love most can reject what they don't understand will resonate with many people. Iceman's "coming out" scene employs the question of whether he could simply stop being a mutant for humour but it's a sharp humour and a slightly bitter one. We feel for these people, we understand their struggle, and in this movie we can really root for them because they face a bigot- a man who will steal children from their beds and inter them in a hidden camp just because he doesn't like what they may become. It's a high watermark from Bryan Singer and his team and gave the franchise phoenix wings- its just a pity that Singer didn't stay.

review by: davidhenderson8 date: 2008-07-01 rating:

Not quite as good as the first.
The sequel builds on many of the strengths of the original- the quality of acting and the care which is taken to develop the characterisation. It starts with a strong opening sequence, an attack on the Oval Office, carefully choreographed and then a sequence in a museum in which the young mutants' field-trip is interrupted by discrimination. Carefully and economically, the film establishes the scenario of distrust and repression in which the themes of the film are to develop. br / br /The first hour is excellent and the quality of the dialogue matches the original however as the film begins to develop and move towards its finale, it becomes slightly less rewarding- perhaps because the compex web of relationships that bind the characters together does not feel as intimate as the first film but also because Brian Cox's General Strker lacks the intellectual menace of Ian McKellen's Magneto. br / br /It is an enjoyable film but in my opinion it is just a bit too long.

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