RE: X-Men 97, A Nostalgic Return to Animated Glory
claydavis > 15/05/2024, 19:23
Episode ten
Stretched to it's limits, across multiple locations, battered and bruised. Delve into the past in order to find the core emotions. Fighting for everything you'd loved and lost.
Before I start, yeah I'm biased, and I used up all my hate quota reviewing Rebel Moon, so I'm back on my overly positive review sh!t again. What did you expect, my freechat profile picture on here is the Wolverine one. So if you don't like it, you should stop reading now.
There has always been a section of Marvel fans that hated all of the previous live-action X-Men films, and this show proved those criticisms were valid. A big reason was that they focused too much on one character, and not the team as a whole. Part of the reason why this has been so critically praised and commercially successful is because that one character is barely in this, and we actually got to see why he's not the leader, Scott Summers is, and why he's not the second in commend, Ororo Munroe is. Personally he was never my favourite character either, Remy and Kurt were. I hope this wins all the awards possible, inside and outside of animation. The writing was stellar as well as the voice-acting. The animation was crisp and vibrant. Obviously the audio department will get praised for the theme music but the score and sound design was equally luscious and evocative. This really and truly ticked all the boxes for me in terms of anything that I watch, in regards to it's action, drama, humour and emotion. Hats off to the team at Marvel Animation and I wouldn't mind if they continueed to delve back into their nineties archive and continued Spider-Man, Iron Man, Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk's stories. Also it would be Marvel if there wasn't an end credits scene, to tease what's to come in season two.