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90A diverting mix of insight and spectacle, human and superhuman. This machine is built for kids, but rarely do words like "noble," "Hollywood" and "rawkin'" all apply to one movie.
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90The fantastic and at times deliciously nihilistic world of X2 is fully, believably three-dimensional.
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89An altogether more viscerally engaging film, from its relentless pacing and slam-bang effects work to the fine, appropriately heroic score by John Ottman. That the movie has an obvious gay subtext neither adds nor detracts from the film’s smashing popcorn appeal.
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88One of the things that makes this movie such a great rush is that while you’re watching it, it seems a good deal more subversive than it really is.
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88Captures the feel of a first-rate comic book. It puts the pop back into Pop Art: It blows viewers away with a blast of kinetic energy.
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88A follow-up with as much artistic integrity, complexity, humor and well-designed action as the original.
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83X2 sparkles with a lightness of spirit that was missing from ''X-Men.''
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83It also boosts the punch of the movie that so many of its action scenes evoke the Iraqi War news footage of the past month, and the "X-Men" premise -- people persecuted because their difference makes them seem threatening -- carries even more relevancy and weight than it did three years ago.
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Positive: 75 out of 86
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Mixed: 8 out of 86
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Negative: 3 out of 86
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MatthewL.10Excellent, better than the first film...