X-Men: First Class

Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon
Screenplay by
Based on the Marvel Comics characters
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
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IN SHORT: Just a buncha kids having a good time... until the missles start flyin'. [Rated . minutes]

X-Men created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Uncanny X-Men created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum (and if we didn't mention Chris Claremont and John Byrne in the same breath, we'd have to turn in our fanboy badge). Darwin created by Ed Brubaker.

Erik Lensherr/Magneto (Michael Fassbender) + Raven Darkholme/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence)
Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) + Dr. Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne)
The White Queen Emma Frost (January Jones)
Man in Black (Oliver Platt)
Azazel (Jason Flemyng)
Hank McCoy/Beast (Nicholas Hoult)
Alex Summers/Havok (Lucas Till)
Angel Salvadore (Zoe Kravitz) [looks like Pixie to me]
Darwin (Edi Gathegi)

Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon)
Armando Muñoz/Darwin (Edi Gathegi)
Sean Cassidy/Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones)

no Scott Summers! no Jean Grey!

Young Erik Lensherr (Bill Milner) young Raven Darkholme (Morgan Lily) young Charles Xavier (Laurence Belcher)

Jane Goldman, Ashley Miller, Jamie Moss, Josh Schwartz and Zack Stentz
story by Bryan Singer

Banshee, Beast, Havok, Mystique, Moira MacTaggert,

On average, a first run movie ticket will run you Ten Bucks. Were Cranky able to set his own price to X-Men: First Class, he would have paid . . .

$x

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