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Went to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine with co-workers this evening; good brainless fun, mostly, although there were not a few body-horror moments. (Spoiler-ful complaining about the plot follows:) The main antagonist is this army colonel who's trying to wipe out all (Marvelverse) mutants, and for some reason he thinks the way to do this is to take existing mutants, blend their DNA, and make an uber-mutant who will have all their powers combined. Plus, this uber-mutant will have their bones replaced with adamantium, which Logan is (in this version of the story line) a test subject for. In order to get Logan to go along with that, the colonel has Logan's ax-crazy brother murder Logan's wife and beat the crap out of Logan, then offers the skeletal upgrade as a way to beat said ax-crazy brother. And then he tries to kill Logan immediately after he comes out of the bone-replacing process. Which doesn't work, of course, because Logan is now nigh-invulnerable. I ask you: is this not something straight out of the list of Things Not To Do If You Are The Evil Overlord (or, in this case, The Military Officer With A Huge Black Budget And No Ethics)? Don't get people to participate in your super-soldier project by ruining their lives, and don't double-cross them, and especially don't double-cross them after you no longer have the ability to stop them.

So yeah. Good brainless fun with plenty of ass-kicking, but I demand a better quality of villain for my $11.75 including online purchase fee, bah humbug.