Video
Video codec: TBA
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Audio
English: DTS-HD MA 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: DTS-HD MA 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 (less)
Subtitles
English, French, Spanish
English, French, Spanish (less)
Discs
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Nine-disc set
Mutation. It is the key to our evolution.
There were comic book-based movie before it, and there were certainly comic book movies after it, but arguably no other film -- or series -- of its kind proved quite as important to both the genre and to Hollywood as 2000's X-Men, the film that sparked the revolution that saw the heroes and villains from the inky pages of Marvel and D.C. comics to come to life anew on the silver screen. Certainly, Hollywood had dabbled with the idea before. A quartet of Batman films found favor with audiences between the late-1980s and the late-1990s, and Tim Burton's 1988 film was even dubbed "the movie of the decade." Superman, too, enjoyed several films, of note the 1978 outing starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Marlon Brando, and Margot Kidder, the film still one of, if not the, finest superhero movies of them all. Studios also turned to some of the lesser-known characters in the 1990s, with films like The Shadow starring Alec Baldwin and Judge Dredd featuring Sylvester Stallone thrilling audiences, but the idea of delivering mega-hits based on comic books never really caught on. X-Men, however, a big-budget special effects extravaganza that also brought to the table a fantastic ensemble cast and, most importantly, a first-rate story, is the film that many see as responsible for the deluge of quality comic book-based films that have positively dominated the decade, and rightfully so, as it still stands as a classic example of superhero moviemaking done right. Followed by two sequels, a second almost as good as the first and a third that fails to match up to the quality of the first two but remains entertaining in its own right, the X-Men trilogy may make the claim as one of the more important to come along in decades.