This tonally bewildering pilot from the dark depths of the 1990's is notable for being the first live action attempt to bring the X-Men universe to the screen. Strangely the route in is via Bachalo & Lobdell's Generation X spin-off team, one of the many X titles doing the X rounds in the... X nineties. It's an odd sort of a vehicle, this, and none of it really works. The high school vibe is queasily written and some of it has dated appallingly. The villain is Max Headroom doing a diabolical Jim Carrey impression which makes the hard lurch between adolescent melodrama and dark slapstick even weirder. Further to that it hangs everything on a completely insane "all mutants can access the dream dimension" mechanic so it can act as a sub-par version of Nightmare on Elm Street which they also actually reference because subtlety and this era of TV were never on friendly terms.
Review of Generation X
