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X2 (2003) |
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MORGAN'S RATING |
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| The X-Men have opponents new and old to face this time around. Magneto is back, but there is also a threat to Professor Xavier's school for mutants led by a human named Stryker, not to mention a vicious woman named Yuriko who has it in for Wolverine. |
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| Patrick Stewart (Professor Charles Francis Xavier), Hugh Jackman (Wolverine/Logan), Halle Berry (Storm / Ororo Munroe), Ian McKellen (Magneto/Erik Magnus Lehnsheer), Brian Cox (General William Stryker), Anna Paquin (Rogue/ Marie D'Ancanto), Famke Janssen (Dr. Jean Grey), James Marsden (Cyclops/Scott Summers), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner), Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (Senator Robert Jefferson Kelly), Kelly Hu (Yuriko Oyama), Aaron Stanford (Pyro/St. John Allerdyce), Shawn Ashmore (Iceman/Robert 'Bobby' Drake), Katie Stuart (Shadowcat/ Katherine 'Kitty' Pryde), Kea Wong (Jubilee/Jubilation Lee), Jill Teed (Mrs. Madelaine Drake), Aaron Douglas (Stryker's Soldier), Roger R. Cross (Agent Cartwright), Daniel Cudmore (Colossus/Piotr 'Peter' Rasputin), Shauna Kain (Siryn/Theresa Cassidy), Peter Wingfield (Lyman), Ty Olsson (Mitchell Laurio), Alfonso Quijada (Federal building cleaning twins), Cotter Smith (President McKenna), Michael Soltis (White House Check Point Agent), Connor Widdows (Jones), Alf Humphreys (William Drake), James Kirk (Ronny Drake), James Bamford (Gambit/ Remy LeBeau), Michael Reid MacKay (Jason), Steve Bacic (Beast/ Dr. Henry 'Hank' McCoy). |
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THE TIME HAS COME FOR THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT TO STAND UNITED. |
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DIRECTOR: Bryan Singer.
WRITERS: Michael Dougherty, Daniel P. Harris, David Hayter, Zak Penn and Bryan Singer and based on the comics and characters by Stan Lee.
PRODUCERS: Lauren Shuler Donner and Ralph Winter.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: David Gorder.
CO-PRODUCER: Ross Fanger.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Avi Arad, Tom DeSanto and Stan Lee.
ORIGINAL MUSIC: John Ottman.
DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox |
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QUOTES |
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Magneto: Doesn't it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they will pass that foolish law and come for you...and your children...take them all away?
Professor X: It does indeed. |
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Magneto: You should have killed me when you had the chance! |
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Professor X: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul who comes to that school looking for trouble. |
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Rogue: What're you laughing at?
Magneto: We love what you've done with your hair. |
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Magneto: That is an amazing gift you have there Pyro. You are a God among insects, never forget that. |
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FACTS |
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Professor X: Logan, my tolerance for you smoking within the mansion notwithstanding; continue smoking that in here, and you will spend the rest of your life believing you are six-year-old girl.
Wolverine: You would do that?
Professor X: I would have Jean braid your hair. |
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RELEASE DATE: May 2nd, 2003 (USA)
DVD RELEASE DATE: November 25th, 2003 (USA)
BOX OFFICE OPENING: $85.5 million (USA)
BOX OFFICE RESULT: $214.9 million (USA)
BUDGET: $110 million (USA)
PRODUCTION DATES: June 2002 -- October 2002
- Hugh Jackman worked with the same trainer who trained Angelina Jolie for the title role in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).
- Shawn Ashmore is the only actor with a minor role from the first film to return in the same capacity (as Bobby 'Iceman' Drake). New actors were selected for the roles of Kitty Pryde and John Allerdyce.
- Ethan Embry was originally cast as Nightcrawler before the role went to Alan Cumming.
- Professor Xavier's opening monologue is the same as in the first movie.
- Alan Cumming had to endure eight hours of make-up to become Nightcrawler. Rebecca Romijn-Stamos' make-up took three hours.
- Professor X's wheelchair was auctioned after the first movie was finished. It was bought by a lawyer (who also works for the same law firm as Patrick Stewart's attorney). When production began, the studio realized they had no chair anymore, so the lawyer rented it back to the studio -- as Stewat said in an interview -- "for a significant sum".
- The "Lady Deathstrike" claws were glued to the bottom of Kelly Hu's own fingernails. She had to grow them out a bit so that the claws would fit securely.
- Hugh Jackman was given a nutritionist to get in shape for his role as Wolverine and gained 20 pounds.
- The fight between Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike took three weeks to film.
- Only the cockpit was built for the X-jet. The rest was a blue screen. |
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Bobby: So what are you professing?
Wolverine: Um...art. |
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CRITICAL COMMENTS |
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"One of those rare superior sequels -- a dark, often exhilarating and occasionally even throughful improvement on its portable plastic predecessor." -- Jonathan R. Perry, Tyler Morning Telegraph |
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"Once you get past issues related to trying to figure out who everyone is, how they relate to one another, and what their powers are, the movie turns out to be pretty entertaining." -- James Berardinelli, Reel Views |
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"A substantial improvement over X-Men, in many ways." -- Jami Bernard, New York Daily News |
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"The longer the movie goes, the more its 133 minutes prove wearing." -- Mike Clark, USA Today |
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"Dumb, but good." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times |
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"This time out there's more action, more character development, more special effects and a much bigger budget." -- Paul Clinton, CNN |
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