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Belle is to put up with the Beast's outbursts, rages, and inappropriate behavior until he comes around? Her love will save him. It will transform him. Uh-huh. Bull mahjockey.

Enough with this idea we give our daughters that somehow they are to be gentile in the face of people being verbally abusive to them. They are to continue on and conquer all with their love. We wonder why women marry men and think they can change them? Why they might stay with a man who never hits.. he only talks ugly to them and yells... breaks into rages... Hmmm... wonder where they might have gotten the idea that all they must do id be patient and wait for him to change?

Disney has always been the standard for animated movies. Beauty and the Beast is the only to ever get a nomination for "Best Picture" by the academy awards and Disney has called it one of top three best they've ever done. Those are some pretty good credentials.

Beauty and the Beast tells the story of the beauty bookworm Belle. She has moved to a new town in France and doesn't fit it to well. Her father is a crack pot inventor is looked to be a madman from the local town folk. On a way to the fair to show off his newest invention Marious gets lost and ends up at a castle. It is at that castle he is imprisoned by a Beast. Belle who has complete compassionate love for her father finds him and takes his place. It's there that she teaches the Beast to love. Back in town though one of the towns men is angry. The conceited and wicked hearted Gaston wants Belle for himself and no one else, and he'll stop at nothing to get her.

There are so many reasons this movie is great. It has some of the most loveable characters ever. Belle and the Beast are both fantastic. In the castle all the workers were imprisoned into different animate objects. There's Cogsworth the Clock and Lemuix the Candlestick. There is Mrs. Potts the Teapot and many other loveable characters that leave you feeling good inside.

The music is fantastic. It did win the best score and best song Oscars. "Beauty and the Beast" is an awesome song sung by award winning artists Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson. Other notable songs are "Gaston," "Be Our Guest," and Many Many more. I'd watch the movie just to see the music.

Beauty and the Beast is one of the best movies you will ever see. It's easily up there with the Wizard of Oz as the best family movie ever made. If you don't have this DVD you can't seriously have a DVD collection. It's one of the best of all time and will be forever. So be there guest and sit down for a ride you'll never regret.

Belle is to put up with the Beast's outbursts, rages, and inappropriate behavior until he comes around? Her love will save him. It will transform him. Uh-huh. Bull mahjockey.

Enough with this idea we give our daughters that somehow they are to be gentile in the face of people being verbally abusive to them. They are to continue on and conquer all with their love. We wonder why women marry men and think they can change them? Why they might stay with a man who never hits.. he only talks ugly to them and yells... breaks into rages... Hmmm... wonder where they might have gotten the idea that all they must do id be patient and wait for him to change?

Disney has always been the standard for animated movies. Beauty and the Beast is the only to ever get a nomination for "Best Picture" by the academy awards and Disney has called it one of top three best they've ever done. Those are some pretty good credentials.

Beauty and the Beast tells the story of the beauty bookworm Belle. She has moved to a new town in France and doesn't fit it to well. Her father is a crack pot inventor is looked to be a madman from the local town folk. On a way to the fair to show off his newest invention Marious gets lost and ends up at a castle. It is at that castle he is imprisoned by a Beast. Belle who has complete compassionate love for her father finds him and takes his place. It's there that she teaches the Beast to love. Back in town though one of the towns men is angry. The conceited and wicked hearted Gaston wants Belle for himself and no one else, and he'll stop at nothing to get her.

There are so many reasons this movie is great. It has some of the most loveable characters ever. Belle and the Beast are both fantastic. In the castle all the workers were imprisoned into different animate objects. There's Cogsworth the Clock and Lemuix the Candlestick. There is Mrs. Potts the Teapot and many other loveable characters that leave you feeling good inside.

The music is fantastic. It did win the best score and best song Oscars. "Beauty and the Beast" is an awesome song sung by award winning artists Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson. Other notable songs are "Gaston," "Be Our Guest," and Many Many more. I'd watch the movie just to see the music.

Beauty and the Beast is one of the best movies you will ever see. It's easily up there with the Wizard of Oz as the best family movie ever made. If you don't have this DVD you can't seriously have a DVD collection. It's one of the best of all time and will be forever. So be there guest and sit down for a ride you'll never regret.

They give it only one star because Iceman's skin didn't *ice* over, because Storm's eyes weren't blue, because in their minds Cyclops wasn't given enough screen time. Some of them gave it one star because they think they see a parallel to Star Trek 2. Grow up people. I submit most of this plankton decided that X2 stunk well before they saw it. These are people who wanted it to stink, and want you to believe them. So sad.

My personal favorite is from a moron who said, "We know Pyro is bad so can't we just get on with it so we can enjoy a Pyro/Iceman fight?"

Hey dummy, YOU know this, some us had better things to do growing up than read comics and watch cartoons. It's a continuous franchise, and you want the filmmakers to encapsulate all the traits and qualities of the characters in one movie, rather than watch them evolve into what you generally "know" about the character over time.

Here's the deal: since as of this review the DVD is not out yet, I recommend that those of you who want the movie to be a carbon copy of the comic book, save the money you'd spend on this to perhaps take a date (if you can get one) out to a movie you might both enjoy. I read the bad reviews of X2 and all I see is the comic book guy from The Simpsons, refusing to like a quality show, with a quality story and cast shot by a quality director. This movie could have been a flawless classic, and they'd all hate it anyway simply because it wasn't a direct recreation of a comic or just because they are outcasts raging against anything popular, unlike them. It's classic, bitter-geek B.S. Go ahead and click on how this doesn't help... I didn't write this for you dummies. I wrote it for anyone considering putting any stock into your negative, self-important comments, not that they actually will, considering all the people who disagree with you.

X2 is a good continuation of the first X-Men movie, well paced and well made. The opening sequence with Nightcrawler was an amazing way to start the film. I think he has become my favorite mutant not only with his abilities but with his take on life as a mutant.. His character showed how far special effects have come in filmmaking. I don't think I've ever seen a movie where the special effects were so seamless. From his transportation abilities to Mystiques shape-shifting between 4 or 5 characters in the span of a few seconds, everything looked and felt as though it was actually happening.

One of the loudest pops the movie got was for a small character who could walk through walls, and her part was only 30 seconds long. The audience was completely taking in by everything that was happening, and having special effects that made everything flow smoothly was a big factor in that.

Other stories were continued or added, such as the love triangle with Cyclops, Jean Grey and Wolverine, as well as seeing Iceman's relationship with his family, and his ongoing love affair with Rogue. And then of course *pyro* the one mutant who goes over to the bad guys, and the one mutant who doesn't make it out alive, but is seeming to metamorphose into a much bigger character.

There were times however where the movie did slow down, which normally isn't bad, but when you have a movie with so much amazing action, any time it slows down, it feels like its crawling. In a normal movie it might feel like it flowed right along, but when you're going 100mph and you slow to 25mph, it hits you harder than if you're cruising along at 50mph the entire time.

"X-Men United" lives up to its name: Whereas the original X-Men movie was basically "Wolverine, guest-starring some X-Men," the sequel greatly expands the time we spend with the other characters, and all of them are the better for it, including a more compelling vision of Pyro than even the best of the comics has shown us.

While the story picks up months after the original, this time, the story is bigger, grander, and more exciting. The film hits the ground running with an amazing sequence introducing the teleporting Nightcrawler, in an eye-popping attack on the Oval Office. Contrast this to the obviously foam rubber girders wrapped around the X-Men at the climax of the last film, and it's immediately obvious that the special effects this time around will be something to enjoy, not something to overlook, and so they are.

As always, the acting, particularly by Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellan, is top-notch. The strong central presences of the films' Wolverine and Magneto continue to ground audiences in the larger-than-life world of the X-Men and with the tease in the last few moments of the film egging on comic fans, it'll be too long to wait for the third installment in this series.

Recommended for superhero fans, including those who thought the first film didn't live up to its potential.

They give it only one star because Iceman's skin didn't *ice* over, because Storm's eyes weren't blue, because in their minds Cyclops wasn't given enough screen time. Some of them gave it one star because they think they see a parallel to Star Trek 2. Grow up people. I submit most of this plankton decided that X2 stunk well before they saw it. These are people who wanted it to stink, and want you to believe them. So sad.

My personal favorite is from a moron who said, "We know Pyro is bad so can't we just get on with it so we can enjoy a Pyro/Iceman fight?"

Hey dummy, YOU know this, some us had better things to do growing up than read comics and watch cartoons. It's a continuous franchise, and you want the filmmakers to encapsulate all the traits and qualities of the characters in one movie, rather than watch them evolve into what you generally "know" about the character over time.

Here's the deal: since as of this review the DVD is not out yet, I recommend that those of you who want the movie to be a carbon copy of the comic book, save the money you'd spend on this to perhaps take a date (if you can get one) out to a movie you might both enjoy. I read the bad reviews of X2 and all I see is the comic book guy from The Simpsons, refusing to like a quality show, with a quality story and cast shot by a quality director. This movie could have been a flawless classic, and they'd all hate it anyway simply because it wasn't a direct recreation of a comic or just because they are outcasts raging against anything popular, unlike them. It's classic, bitter-geek B.S. Go ahead and click on how this doesn't help... I didn't write this for you dummies. I wrote it for anyone considering putting any stock into your negative, self-important comments, not that they actually will, considering all the people who disagree with you.

X2 is a good continuation of the first X-Men movie, well paced and well made. The opening sequence with Nightcrawler was an amazing way to start the film. I think he has become my favorite mutant not only with his abilities but with his take on life as a mutant.. His character showed how far special effects have come in filmmaking. I don't think I've ever seen a movie where the special effects were so seamless. From his transportation abilities to Mystiques shape-shifting between 4 or 5 characters in the span of a few seconds, everything looked and felt as though it was actually happening.

One of the loudest pops the movie got was for a small character who could walk through walls, and her part was only 30 seconds long. The audience was completely taking in by everything that was happening, and having special effects that made everything flow smoothly was a big factor in that.

Other stories were continued or added, such as the love triangle with Cyclops, Jean Grey and Wolverine, as well as seeing Iceman's relationship with his family, and his ongoing love affair with Rogue. And then of course *pyro* the one mutant who goes over to the bad guys, and the one mutant who doesn't make it out alive, but is seeming to metamorphose into a much bigger character.

There were times however where the movie did slow down, which normally isn't bad, but when you have a movie with so much amazing action, any time it slows down, it feels like its crawling. In a normal movie it might feel like it flowed right along, but when you're going 100mph and you slow to 25mph, it hits you harder than if you're cruising along at 50mph the entire time.

"X-Men United" lives up to its name: Whereas the original X-Men movie was basically "Wolverine, guest-starring some X-Men," the sequel greatly expands the time we spend with the other characters, and all of them are the better for it, including a more compelling vision of Pyro than even the best of the comics has shown us.

While the story picks up months after the original, this time, the story is bigger, grander, and more exciting. The film hits the ground running with an amazing sequence introducing the teleporting Nightcrawler, in an eye-popping attack on the Oval Office. Contrast this to the obviously foam rubber girders wrapped around the X-Men at the climax of the last film, and it's immediately obvious that the special effects this time around will be something to enjoy, not something to overlook, and so they are.

As always, the acting, particularly by Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellan, is top-notch. The strong central presences of the films' Wolverine and Magneto continue to ground audiences in the larger-than-life world of the X-Men and with the tease in the last few moments of the film egging on comic fans, it'll be too long to wait for the third installment in this series.

Recommended for superhero fans, including those who thought the first film didn't live up to its potential.

In fact, Shatner is relatively subdued for the better part of the movie. His Captain Kirk is feeling his age and faced with an estranged son that would prefer to remain estranged. Lost love and missed opportunities, and a tight reign from director Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time, ST6), help keep Shatner in check.

Also marks the screen debut of Kirstie Alley as Lt. Saavik.

The DVD package is put together very well. Once Paramount decided to start doing a good job with DVD special editions. They took it all the way to the bank.

This is easily one of the top Star Trek films ever made, and my personal favorite. It combines everything that made the original series so beloved, such as a well drawn out plot, great character development, humor, and of course, exceptional space combat featuring the U.S.S. Enterprise. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and Deforest Kelley (Kirk, Spock, McCoy) are the big three, and their interaction really makes the film. Also of note is newcomer Kirstie Alley as Saavik in what would prove to be her breakout role. This directors cut (ooh la la extra scenes and commentary) of a great sci-fi movie is a must have for Trekkies everywhere.

In fact, Shatner is relatively subdued for the better part of the movie. His Captain Kirk is feeling his age and faced with an estranged son that would prefer to remain estranged. Lost love and missed opportunities, and a tight reign from director Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time, ST6), help keep Shatner in check.

Also marks the screen debut of Kirstie Alley as Lt. Saavik.

The DVD package is put together very well. Once Paramount decided to start doing a good job with DVD special editions. They took it all the way to the bank.

This is easily one of the top Star Trek films ever made, and my personal favorite. It combines everything that made the original series so beloved, such as a well drawn out plot, great character development, humor, and of course, exceptional space combat featuring the U.S.S. Enterprise. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and Deforest Kelley (Kirk, Spock, McCoy) are the big three, and their interaction really makes the film. Also of note is newcomer Kirstie Alley as Saavik in what would prove to be her breakout role. This directors cut (ooh la la extra scenes and commentary) of a great sci-fi movie is a must have for Trekkies everywhere.