The New Mutants (2020)

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1. 

   chunkylefunga

   I'm beginning to think this movie wasn't delayed four times for the reasons given but that they were trying to save a burning script.
   
   First 10 minutes are ok but by the 40th you begin to think when is this dragged out intro story going to stop and the movie actually going to start, and get good.
   
   Well it doesn't.
   
   It's a very sloppy storyline and something that the X-men comics covered in one issue. At most this should have been 30 minutes long.
   
   Miss in the X-Men universe.
   
   Not even the talented and upcoming star Anya Taylor-Joy could save this movie. 3 years 5 months ago
2. 

   Siskoid

   Anya Taylor-Joy would have had a great year of releases if The New Mutants had come out when it was supposed to. Or at least, that's the conventional wisdom. I'm not gonna say it's one of the greats, but I didn't dislike it and in fact would place it above the last few X-Men films. Part supernatural thriller, part prison movie, reinterpreting a Claremont/Sienkiewicz story and kind of turning it into a Stephen King horror film (variable hallucinatory terror, Native American iconography... I mean, isn't Doctor Sleep really an X-Men story?), I grok all that. It's real problem is that it spends too much time on one of its two mysteries, and the solution is obvious from early on, even to people who don't know the comics (not to say the other mystery is too difficult to solve). Obviously, making Illyana spout racist epithets at Dani Moonstar is distasteful - I guess they wanted to give this a real "troubled teens" boarding house feel, and eventually, I think we can accept that she's just acting out - but giving her Kitty Pryde's Lockheed is a great bit. Sunspot is sort of combined with Magma, which is okay. Dani's powers are amped up to make the plot happen, and that's okay. If the supernatural element sits strangely with the whole mutant thing, let me tell ya the comic version of this is even more absurd and has been streamlined. What New Mutants feels like to me is the pilot of television show, something that's suggested by Buffy always being on TV. It was designed as the first part of a trilogy (which is always problematic) and that's why it takes so long to have anything momentous happen. I was fine with just learning who these kids were and how they had to deal with their individual traumas. What's everyone so mad about? (Except the variable accents, yeah, ouch.) 3 years 3 months ago
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   Linkmaster89

   Sorry, but I like it. 2 years 7 months ago

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