Weekend Movie Forecast: X-Men: First Class Vs. Submarine

Dude, chill with the Call of Duty for a bit. Boner got the tickets for X-Men: First Class! We're all meeting up at Union Square at 7, but Ronnie said he's gonna be chillaxin' there early if we wanna blaze first, so we should probably get there early. Dude, this movie looks sick! That dude who plays Magneto is badass. I hear he knocked up Lenny Kravitz's daughter on the set or somethin'. Man, I cannot wait to see this. Ronnie's been bitchin' that they changed too much from the comic but whatev's. As long as it's better than that Wolverine movie I don't care, 'cause that sucked major ass.People are really loving these superhero movies nowadays, which probably implies something about the state of our society, but before we start calling it the zeitgeist, we should probably just enjoy it. Reviews have been mostly positive, with Tasha Robinson at The A.V. Club saying: "Vaughn and company navigate the complications of all their stories by breaking the movie down into a few heavily underlined, well-established X-Men themes, particularly adolescent confusion and self-rejection (clarified and externalized through physical deformity and accompanying immense power) and the difficult decision of whether to strike back against a harshly judgmental world, rally to improve it, or try to integrate quietly into it."First Class embraces a few embarrassing clichÃ©s: the few non-Caucasian characters are all dead or evil by halfway through the film, and a handful of already-ridiculous lines get infused with operatic, laughable portent that clash with the movieâs otherwise more humanistic take on the superhero genre. But First Class largely does what it sets out to do, by turning out another crowd-pleasing comic-book film designed to bring in new fans while gratifying the old ones." — Gothamist

Robert Horan

Published Jun 3, 2011

Modified Jun 3, 2011

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Click on the film stills for more details and reviews of this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include: X-Men: First Class, Submarine, Beginners, Film Socialisme, Beautiful Boy, Rejoice and Shout, The Last Mountain, Turkey Bowl, Drama Queens: The Soap Opera in Experimental and Independent Cinema, Out of the Blue, and Manhattan.

Weekend Movie Forecast: <em>X-Men: First Class</em> Vs. <em>Submarine</em>