Movie First Impressions: The Wolverine

Adorkette and I saw this yesterday afternoon, and she liked it.

I did too...about three/fourths of it.

Without going into spoilers, I felt that this film fell into the same trap that many non-Marvel Studios films featuring comic characters do.

Let me put it this way - remember when The Avengers was being made, and there was a lot of talk about what alien race would be used? Die-hard fans (like me) were convinced it would be the Skrulls. But, not having the list of characters Marvel Studios could use, we didn't know Skrulls were off the table. In the end they used the Chitauri, the alien race responsible for assembling the Avengers in the Ultimate universe.

Well, if any other production company was in charge, they would have given the Chitauri the ability to shape change...for no other reason than because they could. Thus making the Chitauri...essentially...the Skrulls, and pissing off fans everywhere.

Marvel Studios doesn't do that, which makes their movies better by staying true to their characters' roots...

...unless the character in question is so unbelievable that they don't even try.

Anyway - The Wolverine was very good up to the last ten minutes or so, and I recommend it to anyone looking to spend a few hours in air-conditioned splendor.