Dark Phoenix XMen ***SPOILER ALERT****

I am a fan of the XMen. I grew watching this cartoon. One of my favorites was when Jean Grey turned into the Dark Phoenix. This movie had lots of action, lots of special effects but it had issues.

I have no problem with a movie bringing in the stories of each character or XMen hero. IN fact I love a good backstory to every character. But what I have a problem with especially in a Series whether it's movies or books staying true to the timeline that has already been created.

When we are introduced to the XMen world in the movies Jean Grey is very much out of her teenage years. She is a woman until her in love and has the interest of two very powerful xmen Scott and Wolverine. She doesn't start turning into Phoenix until her adult years. And when they take Jean back home in this first version of her becoming phoenix her mother isn't dead. In this new version she kills her mother in a car crash but not her father. In the first movie of where we are introduced to Phoenix she also kills her boyfriend Scott who is Cyclops. But in this one he isn't dead.(Yes he does get bought back to life and this is explained in the adult versions of the movies but he did die).

They so badly screwed with this timeline.

I also didn't like the younger version of Nightcrawler

to the original

and the fact that they bought in Magento's son wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too soon.

He didn't come into the story line until after Jean Grey had become the Phoenix. Wolverine was nowhere to be found in this one unlike the other one.

Then there is Raven Mystique, girl blue.

Once again they fucked up the timeline. You cant have Raven as an adult when you kill her off as a young girl. It just doesn't work. I so enjoyed Rebecca R version of Raven then Jennifer Lawrence's. Jennifer is too soft.
This is what happens when too many hands stir the pot or write what is supposed to be an already established story line.

Now the one thing I did love was the fact that they actually had her completely transform into the Phoenix. My husband said would have been better had they let her explore that side of herself like they did the older version in the first movie she is transformed into. I also enjoyed this version a lot better of how she came by her dark powers as the phoenix, it made a lot more sense.

One other part that I really like was the young actress they got to play the child version of Jean which is the same actress who played Hope M. Klaus daughter from the Originals.

Am I disappointed I saw the movie? No. But I am disappointed that the director and producer of this movie couldn't keep to the original timeline.