It’s as if it’s a concession to the filmmakers: make the first one a hit, and you get to make the story you really want to make with the follow-up.

Excuse me if I keep the Fantastic Four on speed dial

Sheldon Turner managed to get a "story by" credit. He wrote the Magneto script that none of us had even read. I didn't even know that. I was like, "Who the fuck is this guy?"

X-Men: First Class is, at it turns out, only five minutes shorter than Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, yet it feels half the length, so energetically does it move along.

X-Men: First Class manages to be a summer movie with something to say

Isn’t it a waste of an opportunity to spend another couple of hours telling us a slightly different version of a story we’ve already been told?