I can forgive this 'film' for a lot of things. For one, it's obviously only a pilot and they only give a pilot so much money. Secondly, I can understand why they couldn't put Chamber or Penance in (as the trivia says)... But it's just... so bad.
What probably doesn't help is that I'm currently reading Generation X etc, which is how I found out that this even exists (advertised in one of the x-men titles). While even the big budget films will never please the fanboys for continuity I don't think they even tried that hard with this...
Emma Frost, Jubilee (not-Asian at all), Monet and (if you ignore the terrible Irish accent) Banshee are probably the closest to the mark. I'd even consider Skin to not be that bad. I was even shocked when there was a mention of the Hellions having died! But it's where they've not stuck to the comics that makes this so terrible.
The backgrounds of the characters are shot to hell. Jubilee's parents are alive, Skin apparently comes from the suburbs but has a 'homeboy' friend etc. The place takes place at Xavier's school even though Xavier and all the other xmen have seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth as there's no mention of them. As other reviews have pointed out, the plot is some tripe about all mutants being latently psychic and accessing the dreamworld...
The villain of the piece is an actor painfully trying to be Jim Carrey, to the point where I actually thought I'd have to stop watching because it was just so terrible. One of the replacement students called Kurt is some sort of bargain basement Cyclops but with none of the stoic grit and more slime and misogyny. Mondo is now apparently a jock.
I would only advise watching this if you want to see something that makes Xmen 3 look good...
What probably doesn't help is that I'm currently reading Generation X etc, which is how I found out that this even exists (advertised in one of the x-men titles). While even the big budget films will never please the fanboys for continuity I don't think they even tried that hard with this...
Emma Frost, Jubilee (not-Asian at all), Monet and (if you ignore the terrible Irish accent) Banshee are probably the closest to the mark. I'd even consider Skin to not be that bad. I was even shocked when there was a mention of the Hellions having died! But it's where they've not stuck to the comics that makes this so terrible.
The backgrounds of the characters are shot to hell. Jubilee's parents are alive, Skin apparently comes from the suburbs but has a 'homeboy' friend etc. The place takes place at Xavier's school even though Xavier and all the other xmen have seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth as there's no mention of them. As other reviews have pointed out, the plot is some tripe about all mutants being latently psychic and accessing the dreamworld...
The villain of the piece is an actor painfully trying to be Jim Carrey, to the point where I actually thought I'd have to stop watching because it was just so terrible. One of the replacement students called Kurt is some sort of bargain basement Cyclops but with none of the stoic grit and more slime and misogyny. Mondo is now apparently a jock.
I would only advise watching this if you want to see something that makes Xmen 3 look good...