The New Mutants

I can see why Disney/Marvel were so reluctant to release this, especially if they have their own plans to introduce the X-men to the MCU. It actually reminded me of the Generation X TV movie from the early 90’s, but where as that had an ‘I can’t believe these characters are on the screen’ factor going for it this doesn’t even have that because there have been so many superhero movies.

There are some enjoyable bits, mainly little nods to the source material
Can’t really say much about the rest of it though. I think Maisie Williams is the highlight and nails Rahne, Magik is right in places and completely off character in others, and the main actress playing Dani is absolutely terrible. Sam and Bobby don’t really get enough time to be anything more than typical background characters you find in these movies.

Every time I read a thread about the latest Marvel movie someone goes ‘but where were X during all this?’ and I always think it’s a silly detail to get caught up on but during this all I could think of was or failing that

I'm ngl, I was pleasantly surprised by this one. I enjoyed it and had fun with it.
I think my low expectations helped but I still liked it quite a bit.

I did a full review here where I went into more detail if anyone would care to check it out, actual review starts at 2.30.

Homelander wrote: »

I just watched this and my overwhelmingly reaction was "how the **** did this cost $80 million?"

Everything - from the quality of the acting, to the way it's shot and the CGI - looks like a TV pilot.

I mean 80% of the movie takes place in rooms and corridors. The acting is mostly god-awful, like stilted South American soap opera style in the case of the main character. She is unspeakably awful, how she got the starring role in a major blockbuster.....

The lad from Stranger Things is the only actor that put in a decent turn.

Anna Taylor Joy alternates between sounding like Stalin and a high-school cheerleader depending on how arsed she seems to be in any particular scene.

Maisie Williams looks like she dressed up as Deirdre Barlow for Halloween.

I cannot understand how they spent so much money, or on what exactly. It's actually baffling.

The movie is absolutely terrible. Like something you would have seen 20 years ago direct-to-DVD on the bottom shelf in Blockbuster.

It is definitely extremely poor.

Anya Taylor Joy is a terrific actress but yes awful in this.

No idea how that money was spent either.
It looked cheaper than a tv show. There was a mutant type tv show a few years back called the gifted it wasn't perfect but it looked much better than this utter trash.

I'm surprised they gave the same director..the stand tv show!

I forgot to come back here lol. I liked the cast for the most part. Didnt care for the role Reyes was shoehorned into and thought Moonstars actress was woeful. The other 4 mutants I thought all looked the part and were mostly well acted (Taylor-Joy and Heaton both dropped their accents at a few points).


The story was abysmal.

Whatever about the one playing Dani. Her dad was probably the worse one in it, in that opening scene.

Overall, I thought it was better than I expected. It did feel like it didn't belong on the big screen and felt like the pilot to a series.
One thing I always find funny about these kinds of things is current patients/prisoners never find out what the others have done to get them here, despite knowing them for months/years but suddenly when the new person arrives everyone reveals everything within the space of a day.

I do wonder why
Of course the thing I really didn't get was why were they watching Buffy out of order? Watching season 6's The Body before watching season 4's Hush?

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Did it get a cinema release over here?

HMV advertising it's dvd release

Yes. I saw it in the cinema last year in one of the brief times of the year that they were open.