Despite being beautiful cinematography, great costumes and animotronics, the story was way over my head, and I'm 33yrs. old. My 12 yr old daughter liked it, but couldn't really say why. I suspect it was the look of the film. I kept searching for a moral or lesson, and my daughter replied, "Does it need a lesson?" 'Well,' I thought, 'no, but I think there was one in there somewhere?"
my wife and I went to see XMO for my birthday. I didn't walk into the theater expecting a blockbuster, so I really liked the film. I enjoyed getting 'Jimmy's' background in the first minutes of the movie. Overall I liked getting the backstory, just what a prequel should do. I wouldn't compare it to the other X films, this film doesn't have Patrick Stewart or Ian McClellan who are tremendous.