X2 stands next to Days of Future Past in my list. One of the only good things to come from X3 was Kelsey Grammer as Beast. Perfect casting.

I still like X2: X-MEN United. Nightcrawler's intro, Wolverine defending the mansion, Pyro & Bobby's confrontationa, and his interactions with Stryker were great.

Yes that beginning with Nightcrawler was spectacular.

By far the best X men film and definitely one of the best sequels ever

Still like X2. I guess it's a little dated now but it was really exciting back in 2003 as a kid, and improved on the first one in every way.

There are so many great moments in this film! The relationship between Magnito and Professor X is easily one of most complex in Marvel's history and has been played out beautifully by McKellen and Stewart. You could sense how much they cared for each other but yet didn't trust their motives throughout the series but especially in this one. Wolverine had "beast moment" scenes that elevated his character from the previous chapter, most all the characters achieved some type of growth and of course, Nightcrawler's debut was so memorable. I feel this was definitely the pinnacle of the original trilogy....it was a more mature look at the X-men and the world around them.

This is definitively one of the greatest comic book movies of all time! It's just perfection from start to finish! Edit: I fucking love this movie!

X2 X-Men United is one of my favorite superhero movies ever, as well as my favorite X-Men movie! Everything about the movie clicked with me and I love practically everything about it! The story was engaging, the action is thrilling, the cast is great, the script is solid, and it has so many memorable scenes and lines of dialogue! I love this movie, and I love the review here! Great work 😊

Famke Janssen as Jean Grey though.. 😍

One of the best X Men films, honestly

X-Men 2 is still my personal favorite X-Men film and still up there as one of my favorite Superhero films. I loved that scene between Nightcrawler and Mystique. Where he asks her why she doesn't stay in 'normal' human forms all the time. And she replies 'Because i shouldn't have to'. Great line.

X2 is the best. It captures the X-Men so well. The opening of X2 is still one of the best action scenes in a super hero movie. Nightcrawler is my favorite super hero and they adapted him so well. Alan Cumming was perfect casting.

Top 20 Comic Book Film of All-Time and one of the best superhero movie sequels ever made. I've watched this so many times and it gets better with each viewing, and this is the peak of Jean Grey's character arc within the Fox X-Men universe as all the films after failed to further expand on how great of an X-Men character she is in the comics.

Yes X2 is definitely one of the best ones , Nightcrawlers spectacular kickass intro never gets old , Wolverine taking out the bad guys when Stryker came to the mansion , fighting Lady Deathstrike , the good guys and villains working together for a short period of time , X2 , 1st Class and Days Future and Past were probably the top 3 best X-Men movies

Nightcrawler’s intro was awesome

Before Fantastic Four drops I just want to say its wayyyy better than most MCU movies. So much soul

I like the more dark gritty setting of "weapon x" lab in the dam base where Logan fights Deathstrike, the flashbacks, and physical claws. Just looks and feels better. Similar scene from X-men Origins: Wolverine (yeah sorry for mentioning) has nothing on that!

X2 is one of my favorite X-Men films.

Yes, I think this is still the best X-Men movie and even one of the better MCU movie. Logan is the only other one that might measure up. That great entrance of Nightcrawler. I still wished they had keep this Colossus than the one they had in Deadpool. And I love the back and forth with Cyclops and Wolverine through out the movie. And like you said, the ways they mourned Jean Grey were very different and beautiful.

This is easily my favorite X-Men film !!! You can tell the budget is bigger,the script/storyline is so much BETTER. LOL.Magneto's plan is better too,let's face it-TRUE BELIEVERS,his plan was lame and corny.A better script also includes better written dialogue.One of my favorite scenes from this film is the visit to Iceman's parents home,I was very surprised to see this scene,but the banter betwween the characters is good.EVERYTHING is bigger and better in this movie.This is the BEST X-Men film for me,DOFP isn't really an X-Men film,is mostly features Wolverine and Mystique,X2 everyone gets to shine.

I saw this in theaters when I was very young so you gotta account for some nostalgia talking, but there is a modesty here that was really refreshing. It took itself seriously while still having plenty of humor. It explores its ideas and themes better than it’s predecessor and seems more confident right down to its iconic Nightcrawler opening. Some people still seem either miscast or underused, but overall it’s very good. Also helps that it looks like an actual movie.

Yes. A top 3 superhero movie ever in my opinion

Nightcrawlers opening sequence was the shit of absolute dreams. X2, SM 2 and dark knight are the uktimate super sequels

AVI ARAD worked on the first movies as executive producer But for the 3rd movie, he decided to step in as the main producer That's why we got a movie done by a director with no passion, and a limited story overstuffed with characters, just so he could sell more toys

Great movie. Intro scenes of Nightcrawler and Prof. X in the museum are stuff of legend. IMO, it was missing an R rating that could've made the berserker scene way better (thank you Logan), and having again Prof. X captured/indisposed and specially Cyclops. That one has yet to get his movie redemption, even though Mardsen was spot-on casting, they wasted him (don't get me started on the third one).

I love X2 so much, still holds up even today. Glad to see someone making a video on it.

man this movie already nearly 20 years old? How time flies

15:48. Wow X2 was number one for 52 weeks til may 2004 when shrek 2 really came out.

Fun Fact: The actress playing Lady Deathstrike was it Friday the 13th Part 8.

The kitchen scene into the living room,Faure,is Classic

X2 is by far the best X-Men movie. And just one of the best super hero movies ever.

X2 & Days of Future Past were art

I wanted a backstory to Deathstrike but I guess the animated series will have to provide that.

My second favorite X-Men movie... also I think we can all agree it has the best/most bad-ass character introductions ever with Nightcrawler storming the Whitehouse

This movie is, to date, my favorite superhero film ever made.

This was my favorite comic movie for a long time.

The invasion on the mansion is one of the best scenes from all of these movies. It's so danm good

X2 was great!!! Totally knocked it out of the park on this one!

The BIG question we all have with the IP, "Is Adamantium and Vibranium one in the same?"

X2 is my favorite super hero movie behind Endgame. Easily one of my favorite films of all time. Great writing all the way through with iconic scenes. Logan stabbing the soldier in the chest with the scream is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Jackman played Wolverine so damn good we will never be able to have another one.

I Saw this one on VHS... I miss this movie on theaters. Exams... I was 14 years old. I love this movie. Great sequel!!

First off, nice video. X-2 was the best X-Men movie. I hear people lamenting how the series fell to ruin after this, but you should just appreciate everything it took coming together to make this and the first X movie great. Bryan singer's direction, David Hayter's script, the amazing cast and so on. But I digress, the point I wanted to quickly make and I'm not sure someone hasn't already is that Jean Grey isn't only hearing the voices in the heads of everyone at the muesum, but if you listen carefully she's hearing visions of the future. There are audio clips of events that take place later in the movie that she hears, pretty cool

I wish you had to describe the part where pyro went nuts with his fire power that was pretty cool

i have such wonderful movies of seeing these in the theaters. Even the third one, when i was still young enough to just enjoy a movie hahaha

Bryan Singer used to be so amazing

My father in law worked on this and the first his favorite part was being stuck in BC because Singer went on a binge of booze/drugs that required an intervention. Also the production had to cover his drug debt to the HA. Halle discussed it a bit in her autobiography.

Awesome job kier can definitely tell you have a liking for this one how you were talking about it :) the first 2 x-men really opened the gates for superhero films such a shame it all went wrong with the last stand and all the other ones they made that didnt tie into the first 2 films it really could of been marvels best offering :(

This is a good one, I really had high hopes after this that we would get a decent Dark Phoenix as a follow up. Poor hopeless optimist.

X2 The Wolverine (Unrated) First Class DoFP Logan All time Faves.

Outsside of stand alone films like logan and deapool first class is I think the best because it probably the best prequal to expand on the characters when they were younger along with great direction that really feels like a mathew vaughn film stylistacally and one of the more gritty takes of the films in the comic book genre that doesnt sacrifice the fun to be had either with such a great cast

Was great fun, the days before marvel/Disney took over had cool interpretations this was one of them.

imagine being a fan of the first X-Men and Spider-Man movies and then getting X2 and Spider-Man 2 in 03 and 04, those two really are the best superhero movies imo.

Wolverine In the Mansion is the best part

Really good Movie! 👍✊👊😎🍁♈

Seen this film 3 or 4 times and i had no idea it was titled X-men United

Back when less was more Now that Disney got the X-Men, everything will be overblown with CGI and memes

Ok so a couple things 1. Storm lost her accent bc it was terrible in the first one so they dropped it. Not a continuity error and 2. Pyro is NOT and newly added character. He was in the first one. The role was just recast.

20 years later this still sets an example of how to do a sequel It remains one of the franchise’s best installments as far as comic book movies go A bigger cast, a higher budget, and more mutants for fans directed by X-Men fan himself Bryan Singer The movie still retains its ability to be political but also entertaining escalating what came before Singer never forgets to include the whole symbolic prejudice, racism, discrimination, and xenophobic themes that the comics were known best for There’s no doubt the subtext of LGBTQ is present throughout and it would set the tone for future movies with its metaphors Heck even its release coincided with the US repealing all laws against homosexuality so it’s easy to see the gay aspects sprinkled The most offensive question we can ask each other is have you tried not being what you are The look itself has a road to perdition like feel to it than a straight up comic book There’s still solid acting from Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart as Magneto and Xavier, Famke Janssen gets more to do as Jean Grey and the way they handle her towards the end packs an emotional punch No cure exists for how we are born, sharing the world has never been humanity’s defining attribute, when some have tried to start a war there’s always casualties (losses on both sides, there’s always a moment to repeat the mistakes of the past or work towards a better future, sometimes anger or faith can help you survive, people being afraid of others you don’t have to hate them for it sometimes it’s just pity Despite a few liberties with the source material, not having a ton of stand out action, and being overly lengthy, inconsistent with minor plot holes, tonal changes, and odd character moments ‘X2’ raises the bar for the genre It treats the source material with reverence, unafraid of what was laid out in the comics and thanks to it ‘Logan’ and ‘Deadpool’ wouldn’t exist to be more adult, violent, and grittier More films are set to come because of the Disney/FOX merger so only time will tell if the MCU can reintroduce these mutants in a more richer comic book movie pantheon

I've always wondered...is Lady Deathstrike still alive after getting pumped full of adamantium?

Shrek 2 came out in 2004, not 2003

I think Days Of Future Past was the best, but I still liked X2

My first burned dvd. Oh, sweet memories.

After what Disney did to HULK and THOR I'm not looking forward to see what they'll do with the X-Men

My 3rd favorite of the franchise behind Logan and X-men days of future past

I honestly prefered the first X-Men movie. It was great seeing how well the characters were brought to life, and amazing sitting among an audience who recognised them from cartoons on TV. I found the second film was bloaty and the end goes on too long - Ryker is killed three different ways. X2 might have been better in retrospect if the third film had finished the trilogy in style. Singer is the best director for the X-Men. He really gets the mutants

Well it is the best of the first trilogy. The best of prequel trilogy is Days of Future Past.

for me the best in the series followed by The Last Stand because Jean Grey/Phoenix is my fave character although i was disappointed with how they made it a minor storyline to the Cure in the Last Stand. Had they made it the main storyline with the Cure it would've been epic coz the Dark Phoenix movie with Sophie Turner was so bad!!! Im still hoping they could one day tell the Dark Phoenix story right as well as the Age of the Apocalypse story coz that was so epic and scary. The Apocalypse movie they made was such a joke when Apocalypse for me was the most formidable and scariest XMen villain they ever faced.

The Phoenix stuff in X2 is super weak but otherwise amazing movie. Has scenes in it that at the time were commonplace but now seem much more adult and hit harder when comparing how dialed back the Disney marvel movies have been.

Didn’t Shrek 2 come out in…2004? Anyways, will never forget the audience breaking into rapturous applause after the opening scene with Nightcrawler and when Wolverine went into Berserker Mode. Good times at the movies.

Days of future past but before that x2.

A truly great X Men movie was never achieved. X 2 and Days of Future Past were the closest

A "WTF HAPPENED TO LIGHTING JACK?" would be a good cover

Yes.It is.

Shrek 2 came out in 2004… it was dethroned by The Matrix Reloaded in 2003

I don’t understand why movie studios keep wanting to make a dark phoenix movie before making the Phoenix saga ….. it’s the Phoenix then dark Phoenix

To those MCULovers who criticize these movies in stupid ways, I say that without them, not even Tobey Maguire's Spiderman, the MCU would not even exist today. The success of these franchises gave Hollywood confidence to give rise to Iron Man. Perhaps they were not the most faithful but these will always be my X Men seeing how Kevin Feige clings to destroying great characters like Thor or Hulk and how the MCU is in horrible decline it is good to know that these Pre MCU tapes exist what I love most about these films under the hand of Singer is the seriousness in which these characters are taken this is not the world of dancers and rainbows of the MCU what Singer did was bring to reality the theme of the X gene and the consequences that this could bring about these For me, more than Marvel movies, they are science fiction movies and that is epic. I will miss these days and I doubt that Marvel will return to this formula for a long time.

Ahh u didnt mention Hank McCoy on the tv.

Great Movie!

Why do they keep trying to do the 'Dark Phoenix Saga'? They always remove huge plot points. Like 'The Hellfire Club', the psychic guy that held her, the Pirate fantasy? Terrible writers abound. You cannot just have the 'Dark Phoenix'

Hell yeah it is the best X-Men movie til this day! I would make a case that most sequels are better than the originals and the successors. Just look at Blade 2, Spider-Man 2, The Matrix Reloaded, etc. This is probably because they are always more action packed and adventurous. Sequels are sweet!

This movie is like Empire Strikes back..to me at least

It's a great movie. It's better than most of the movies in the MCU. But Days of Future Past stands above them all as the best superhero movie based on Marvel comics.

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why was gambit not in these movies?

Yes X-MEN 2 WAS THE BEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE before MCU 🎬 🙌🏾

But they didn't add GAMBIT!!! IN "X1", "X2" or "Last Stand"! - for that, I'll NEVER Forgive Them!!!

Oh man, I love him but Embry would've been so horrible as Nightcrawler.

I thought The Matrix Reloaded unseated X2 at the top of the box office...??

Great Great movie! But why the studios won't use the comics uniforms for the movies. Then they wonder why the movie isn't a hit in the theaters. They should learn from Deadpool, Batman

Pyro is in the first film.

Shrek 2 came out in 2004

Shrek 2 came out 2004 not 2003

Long before The Avengers took to the big screen, this was the biggest and best superhero ensemble.

I think Jean was losing control of her powers because she used Cerebro before she was ready.

Ah yes, the WOODS of it all 🤣🪵🌳🪵🌳🤣

My favorite Marvel Movies are: 1. X2 2. Captain America Civil War 3. Avengers Age of Ultron 4. Spiderman 2 5. Avengers Infinity War

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X2 is goated

nooooo 3 is as good. both are excellent.