The Brunch Table

After seeing X2: Manchester United last weekend, I was looking through a few reviews, and I started wondering if these people saw the same movie as I did. For example, sci-fi fan Ebert seems to get the plots of the two movies mixed up, saying:

in the first movie they were faced with genocide, and in this one their right to privacy is violated with the Mutant Registration Act

Clearly, he knows better, because he seems to have had a semi-coherent grasp of the plot of the first movie. He offers more puzzling “insights” later on in the article:

One might reasonably ask what threat could possibly be meaningful to mutants with such remarkable powers, but Magneto, who has serious personal issues with mutants, has devised an invention which I will not describe, except to say that it provides some of the movie’s best visuals.

I can’t for the life of me figure out what he’s referring to in any part of that sentence. Anyone?

When Justina and I went to a preview screening of I Spy (hey, it was free), we sat right behind the press row, and we overheard one reviewer telling another something to the effect of “I’m ready for this one–I’ve had three martinis!”. Now, I can’t say I blame her in the case of that particular movie; but it does help explain some of the more puzzling reviews that I’ve come across.