X Men: First Class

X Not Exactly First Class Entertainment For Some Viewers
X Men: First Class, PG-13, ***, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon, January Jones. 20th Century Fox,. Director Matthew Vaughn. Length: 133 minutes.

I am not a huge fan of the X Men Series. However, I did like some parts of this one which shows how the series begins.
The story begins in Poland during 1944.Eric Lehnsher is forced into moving objects, because of witnessing a horrible event. Since Eric is mad about what happened, he is able to move metal objects. In the future he will be Magneto.
Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) is responsible for the horrible event that moved Eric into using his skills. All of this seems to be about creating a perfect race. Much like Hitler tried to do. Except in this case, the mutants perform some over-the-top magic and destruction.
Eric played by Michael Fassbender as an adult is out for revenge. After the war, he sets out to settle a score with some X-Nazis. His skills are very helpful in taking care of some evil doers. Tracking down Nazi killers and relieving them of their existence seems to be just punishment for these horrible monsters.
Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) is a telepath, and Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) is a shape-shifter. Emma Frost (January Jones) can become ice. With her as ice, I wonder how the ice keeps from melting. The audience meets several of the mutants.
Since the mutants are different, they are not treated as society equals. This part of the story was interesting. It shows that we are all on earth to get along with others no matter what their differences are.
It should be noted that normal is sometimes boring, so individuals should embrace those who are somewhat different than us as long as they do not try to harm us or morally corrupt us.
This reminded me of bullying in school or in society. Bullying is a major problem in schools, physically, mentally, on the Internet, and all ways of communicating. Just read the newspapers or watch television. This is horrible for others. Words do hurt. Teachers’ parents and students should watch for this and report it or do something about it. This movie assists in demonstrating how this is a problem in our society.
Xavier sets up the first class for the mutants, and he helps them hone their individual talents. As a compassionate and dedicated teacher, he knows how to obtain the best talents from his students. How the talent is used in the future could be a different story.
Another great message in his teaching deals with Xavier bringing to the surface his explanations of controlling one’s talent, and not allowing the talent to control the person which is an excellent rule for everyone to follow.
Do not be ashamed of who we are - or try to hide who we are. Being different is acceptable. Do not allow how we look to keep us from being a part of society.
A great deal of the movie deals with the Cuban crisis in the 60’s. We hear speeches from President Kennedy, and we see how students were trained to get under their desks at school - as if that would protect us from the bombs.
Buying canned food and hoarding water in order to take it to a bomb shelter. However, I do not think many bomb shelters were available during that time or would help in the event of a nuclear attack.
The movie has a great deal of globe hopping. From one country to the other and from state to state the story moves forward to an intense ending. In this case, it stops in order to begin the series. I say this because this is supposedly the prequel to “X Men” so they are just getting started. However, it shows how the mutants learned from Xavier and how some chose their own selfish way.
If one likes the 60’s music, the viewer will hear Freddie Cannon’s Palisades Park song when Moria McTaggert (Rose Byrne) a CIA Agent decides to remove some attire and take part in classy strip joint. She is trying to obtain information about the nuclear crisis. It seemed like a good idea at the time.