Mutate, Rinse, Repeat: I watch the new “X-Men” movie

for AmSpec:

I have seen the future, brother, and it is a real bummer.

Ahhh, look, X-Men: Days of Future Past could be much worse than it is. The last two adventures of Marvel’s Merry Mutants were execrable; this one is merely doughily pointless. X-Men: The Last Stand was like watching your big brother break your favorite toys. X-Men: First Class was more like watching somebody else’s awful, sticky children have a slap fight in a sandbox, except with the Cuban Missile Crisis going on as well.Days, by contrast, introduces a ridiculously fun new mutant and offers tiny hints of theme.

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