X-Men '97 is a literal and spiritual continuation of the beloved '90s cartoon series, picking up its core characters where the show left off. It aims to target the generation that grew up with the original series.
The X-Men never die. In the comics, that’s sometimes more literal than metaphorical, more meta text than actual text. But it always means that, for the most part, no matter how long the X-Men wane, they always come back: the same but different, adapted to the latest age of a world that hates and fears them. X-Men : The Animated Series is now different with its own resurrection in X-Men ‘97.
Debuting today on Disney+, X-Men ‘97 is a literal and spiritual continuation of the beloved ‘90s cartoon series. Although given a little distance from the end of the classic show—which saw an assassination attempt on Professor X’s life whisk him away from Earth and into Shi’ar space to recover, leaving his dream of Mutant-Human co-existence in the X-Men’s hands—for the most part it picks up its core characters exactly where they were when the show left off, as they all try to navigate the last will and testament of Charles Xavier. This means it hits the ground running, and while there’s enough context for a mutant newcomer to have fun, it’s a show that is gunning for a very specific audience in the generation that grew up with the original—whether that was all the X-Men they ever experienced, or a stepping stone into the rich comics legacy that inspired i
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'X-Men ‘97' Review — Marvel Returns to the ’90s in X-traordinary New SeriesRoss Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, Flickchart, The Free Lance-Star, and more.
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