Weekend Movie Forecast: X-Men Vs. Ice People

X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens this weekend, and most moviegoers are either inordinately pumped or utterly indifferent. But for anyone on the fence, here's a juicy pan from Robert Wilonsky at the Village Voice: "Without fail, the dullest installment in any superhero movie franchise is the origin story, during which audiences anxiously awaiting The Big Bad Guy have to suffer through, yaaaawn, scenes of childhood trauma, romantic tragedy, and other expository effluvia, by which point the closing credits are fast approaching. Alas, the X-Men franchise takes a giant leap backward and off a cliff with its fourth offering... Odd thing is, 2003’s expeditious X2 more or less covered the same ground in a matter of seconds, as opposed to 107 minutes that feel like almost as many hours. A suggestion? Wait for the bootleg."