Following the foreboding musings of Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) in the first installment of this trilogy, the plot focuses on the invasion of the X-men school and mansion and the growing tension between humans and mutants.

While a little less thrilling than its predecessor, and with a few obvious deviations from the X-Men story line, the film has some good action scenes and the ever-redeeming quality of being an X-Men movie.

The long and short of it: Rent it sometime if you haven’t seen it yet.