pretty, she is...

Today the DVD version of X2: X-Men United was released. I saw this movie twice in the theatres, and it was even better the second time. Entertainment Weekly hailed it as the best superhero movie ever. I'm not sure that I would go that far, but it's certainly the best action movie of the year (so far, anyway). Unless of course you count Kill Bill: Vol. 1 as action. But who does? That wasn't action; it was Tarantino.

At any rate, I gave X2 an A-, although sometimes I wonder whether an A would not have been more appropriate. The very first scene, with Nightcrawler in the White House, is to die for...