Movie Review: X-men 3

The latest installment in the X-men franchise is a series of action sequences interrupted by dramatic fluff that adds almost nothing to the plot. Some observations (and potential spoilers; you have been duly informed):
- Not since "The Core" has the Golden Gate Bridge been so thoroughly mangled. Apparently there is some secret competition going on amongst the special effects houses to see who can wreak the most havoc on this San Francisco landmark. I expect that the next attempt will involve an anthropomorphic Golden Gate extending its cables into the city, lifting up the Coit Tower and launching it like a missile toward loathsome Los Angeles.
- There is a boy who is the "anti-mutant". Get too close and your powers fade away, temporarily. Apparently the "cure" is synthesized from the DNA or whatever of this boy. Anyway, we get an entire diatribe on the mutant cure, but nobody seems upset that a lab has locked up some little boy in a whitewashed room in the medically modernized Alcatraz prison.
- It's always cool seeing the name of someone you know in movie credits.
- How come all the people standing in line for the cure looked so normal? And is it just me, or is there a tendency toward blue as the preferred pigmentation of mutants?
- The scene of a young Archangel cutting off his wings was well done, and is about as deep as the movie gets in terms of character development/background (with the exception of the Jean Grey backstory). That said, a long series of shots showing various characters walking around or staring into nothingness with a mopey expression is pretty much worthless and happens too often in this movie.
- How is it possible that over the course of three movies they did not manage to give Storm/Halle Berry one decent line of dialogue? Is English supposed to be her character's second or third language?
Overall, if you liked the first two movies, go ahead and see this one.
Rating: three of a kind.