The mutants return in this follow-up to 2000’s X-Men. As before, if you are expecting the same team of mutants as you read about in the comics growing up, you probably are going to be disappointed. Chances are you will see glimpses of them, but they simply aren’t the same. If you are just a fan of movies in general, then you’ll probably get along fine.

Now that things have calmed down and it seems that the Mutant Registration Act is back out of everyone’s mind, it looks like things will return to normal for a while. But if that were the case, there wouldn’t be any need for a movie. It seems that William Stryker (Brian Cox), will do something about the mutant “problem” if there’s anything that he can do about it.

It turns out that his son, Jason attended the school run by Professor X many years ago, but Stryker and his wife were hoping that he would be cured of his problems, and that’s just not how the school works. It also seems that Stryker was somehow involved in the creation of the mutant we know as Wolverine, but we’re not going to learn the details of that one, at least not right now.

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I have to admit to not being a huge fan of The Fantastic Four growing up. Heck, I wasn’t a fan of any of the traditional superheroes, though I did like comics in general well enough. I just didn’t want to be reading the same ones as everyone else. So while I was acquainted with the basic premise, I didn’t have too much attachment to it. I completely understand that someone who was in love with the story may have ideas that are completely shattered if the movie wasn’t faithful to the original story.

When the four primary characters travel to the space station to research cosmic rays, they find that their calculations were off, and the rays are both more powerful than expected and closer. So they are bombarded by radiation that is unknown in origin and in power. This in turn gives them new powers, and they return to Earth with these powers, which transforms them into the superhero team that is known as The Fantastic Four.

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