Wolverine

Hooray, the summer movie season has officially begun! This Hugh Jackman being muscular movie was a great start for the season. It was ridiculous at times, it had lots of unnecessary special effects, and it had very silly romantic story lines, but it was pretty fun. It was a popcorn movie, with some geek added into the mix, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Here's the apparently french version of the poster, I like it more than the other one:

No need to explain the plot, its just the back story on Wolverine from the X-Men stories. There are a lot of other mutants introduced, and you also get to meet a young William Stryker, the villain from the second Xmen movie. A lot of the story was between Wolverine and his creepy brother (Liev Schreiber) who has the same powers as him. The ending was kind of silly, too many green screens and special effects, but tied up all the loose ends etc.

Dominic Monaghan (from Lord of the Rings and Lost) was great in his maybe 3 tiny scenes, as a mutant who can control all things electric with his mind. He spends part of his life as a circus freak, and the creepy sideshow trailer he lives in was great looking- it was filled with hundreds of electric toys that he would turn on when he walked in to keep him company, and the roof was filled with hundreds of light bulbs that he didn't have to plug in. It was a fantastic image. Alas, poor Ryan Reynolds was sadly underused as well, but I heard a rumor that he might get a spin off (and friends told me his character was woefully different from the comic books). It was a decent enough movie, I think its likely the franchise will keep on going for a while.

Oh yeah, Hugh Jackman was great. But wasn't that a given?