The latest installment of the X-Men franchise is, to put it mildly, First Class! The film actually starts where the very first movie began, on the streets of Warsaw in World War II, where we meet the boy who will become Magneto. We also meet the sinister and smiling Dr. Shaw, brilliantly played by Kevin Bacon, who is quite fun in this role. The movie shows us just how all the central X-characters meet for the first time, and the story of the Cuban Missle Crisis is the perfect way to show how it is the characters eventually choose "good" versus "evil" in their effort to survive in a human world, which is hell-bent on destroying them. It's two hours that passes in about 30 minutes, and I would highly recommend it as a first X-Men movie to anyone unfamiliar with the entire phenomenon!