And it worked! That film’s modest success (by today’s blockbuster standards) helped pave the way for pretty much the entire superhero movie genre as we know it. There is a very good reason why director Bryan Singer tried to avoid all that in his 1998 film adaptation of X-Men, eschewing yellow spandex and time travel gobbledegook in favour of a more grounded and believable approach.
I should stress here though that faithfulness is not always a good thing when we’re talking about the X-Men franchise – a series so up its own ass with incestuous family trees, ridiculous costumes, alternate reality loops, and characters created via time paradoxes, that it’s really quite difficult to keep anything straight. For all its faults, the cartoon gets full points for faithfully retelling some of the X-Men’s greatest comic book stories – which is more than can be said for most adaptations, animated or otherwise.
Looking back it wasn’t all that great, but the rose-coloured glasses of nostalgia can help you see past the mostly terrible voice acting and spotty animation. You know, the one with that amazing opening title sequence? If you’re of a certain age, then there’s a good chance you’ll remember the 1990s X-Men cartoon with some fondness.
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