DCfan
I have not seen every single episode of this show but I watched four episodes last year.The first one was where Peter and Jubliee go to Russia to stop cable. The second one was where Cyclops leaves the team to his childhood foster home to discover the purple man is using Mutant Children as weapons, the third one is where Jubliee is looking after some school kids during a cave visit and the last one was where Rouge goes to a countryside to recruit a mutant young man.Overall this show was excellent and it had a good theme song.
tankace
Having reviewed every cinematic adaptation of the uncanny team, I though that "Waite what about the original animated series on Fox?". So to start this series is easily in the top ten of the most beloved superhero series even more than twenty years afters its opening in 1992, wait(!) Am I writing about an animated series that is on reruns since the turn of the new millennium? Wow I feel old! So X-men(1992) was my first encounter with the mutants and their adventures, the issues that they faces and why the team is the way it is. What I loved even to this day is the designs of the character, those colorful suits ,which 1. make it easy to distinguish for instance Cyclops from Beast and 2. show looks awesome and I wish some day to see something like that on the big screen. For real this has been sixteen years ,nine movies and two incarnations of the major players of the mutant group and the most only suit that look some like the ones from the series and comic are the ones from First Class and Deadpool.Another nice thing is that the mutants under the command of the main adversary(not enemy) of X-men, Magneto aren't evil for evil sake, but the society treatment of each and every one made them like that. In simple words they act in evil ways because this is the only thing they ever took from the regular humans. For that reason ,though I don't condole with their approach ,I get the why of the situation. Also no one can forget the amazing story-lines that the series adapted from the mythology of the team up to that point in time, from the Phoenix saga, the Age of Apocalypse, Slave Island and Days of Future Past just to name a few of them. And in some cases this adaptations were better than their feature film counterpart ,I am looking at you X-men Origins and Last Stand! And the opening theme, how could I not mention this amazing theme, what every fan of the series has memorized. Hell you can't say you are fan of the X-men if you don't know this song, period!!!!If you are a fan of the X-men this is for you and me the same as the Jesus of Najaret of the religious guys: The basis with what anything related with the subject you love is compared. And now let's get dangerous, what I don't like with the series.1) The animation is a bit stiff compared with modern-day animated projects. 2) At times the series is to much a product of its time, which means that some quotes at the nineties worked now sound dated and over the top.3)...The audience that is so devout to this series that like to shot out of the sky the feature film adaptations. But that is more a problem with the angry nerds and not with the series per say.Over all if you want your kids to get in to the X-men then show them this series and if you have the time watch it with them, in the age of the internet everyone can and usually relive his childhood by watching something this series.
ydawg-478-917558
First of all let me say that I am not a comic nerd, I maybe owned a couple through my whole life (wolverine was my fav and probably because of this show). I have never liked other superhero shows (another critic said he liked the batman cartoon but that show blew, maybe i just didn't like the cartoon style). Basically what I am trying to say is that I am not a superhero guy but this show might be the best cartoon ever ...You know those shows/movies you loved as a kid then re-watch as an adult and they just seem corny and/or stupid, boring, childish or just plain lame? (i remember loving "labrynth" the movie as a kid, re watched and realized its just a long and boring David bowie music video). I recently got all 5 seasons of X-men for my kids to watch because I remember absolutely loving it watching it new as a kid myself, it was my most anticipated cartoon (besides the simpsons) and I thought the kids would enjoy it...the theme music gave me butterflies, so lets start there. What a theme song !!! )best ever maybe), so good I can't believe it brought out emotion in me and that is rare. The video for the intro is pretty cool too, love that explosion.Now on to the show, a lot of reviews here hit it on the nose. The show is so complex and the characters are real. The opening scene of jubilee with her foster parents, man !!! TV shows still don't have the balls to put on content that real.Gambit hitting on the cashier, man !!! so good.The characters make jokes that are funny.They get in each others faces.The girls are more loving and the guys are cold.OK i could go on and on so lets just finish by saying watch the damn show and lets never forget it. shows like this don't come along every day and i hope people enjoy it for a long time.OK i feel like i should throw a couple negatives in just so i don't seem to biased (remember i am not a comic geek so i cant talk about comic book accuracy) just from the first episode though ...1. I don't like how gambit is just waltzing around the mall in his costume, storm and rogue were both in plain clothes though so i don't know why gambit had to be rocking his outfit? 2. The giant robot is hiding behind a tree as jubilee walks by going to her parents house to check on them ... please.OK thats about it for nowum fav character has gotta be gambit, love the accentsthis show embraces diversity but not in a captain planet kind of wayalright i am outthanks
Angelus2
Growing up in the 1990's I loved this show and watched it with great enthusiasm on Saturday mornings; it had everything a great children's show lacks today...Action, great dialogue, brilliant story lines and more importantly the most accurate interpretation of the comics.Some sort cuts were taken during the running of this show by the writers but only the things that weren't necessary or...confused people...Like Lady Deathstrike being Wolveirne ex-lover and her dad being the 'professor' who infused Wolverines bones with adamantium.I fell in love with Wolverine and the gang right here...And still today consider X-Men the greatest superheroes in Marvel...This show explored all the characters and their own worlds, making the audience empathise with them, cheer them on. The show also had a 'sex' factor..hidden as it was...But c'mon...some of the characters were hot...Lady Deathstrike was....Hot...The show also had one of the most memorable and amazing theme songs ever composed....The song just made you jump up with adrenaline...If only they used it on the movies.All in all one of the best X-Men interpretations ever established..Probably better then the movies..