It’s Here: The Official Trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine!

Buckle up, this is going to be good. 20th Century Fox has released the first full trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine and it kicks a fair bit of ass. I wouldn’t typically describe myself as a “fanboy”, but when it comes to X-Men in general, and Wolverine in particular I think the term fits. Growing up I bought a ton of Wolvie and X-Men comics, and only handfuls of anything else. I always thought the concepts and themes of the stories were head and shoulders above most other comics. The struggles between mutants and humans, between man’s refined nature and his animal instinct, and even between mutants who agreed on the problems, but disagreed on the solutions. These struggles, and the storylines they led to, made X-Men transcend mere “comic books” and crash the incredibly stuffy cocktail party of serious literature like the whole school crashing Bogie Lowenstien’s party in 10 Things I Hate About You. (Yeah, I like that movie. You got a problem with that? Wanna fight about it?)

Ok, maybe I didn’t get all that when I was 13, and maybe mostly liked them because Wolverine kicked serious ass, but those things are certainly all there. The two previous X-Men movies examined many of the mutant vs. humans and each other themes (What’s that? There were three X-Men movies? Really? I remember seeing two pretty good movies, and I guess I kind of remember seeing commercials for a third one, but there seems to be 104 minutes of my memory missing. Must be some kind of inner defense mechanism…). It looks like this one will cover the man vs. his inner nature and ass-kicking portions. Check out the trailer, then we can discuss:

So, what did we see here? In my in-no-way-an-expert estimation we got to see Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), Gambit (Taylor Kitsch), a brief shot of Silver Fox (Lynn Collins), a bunch of The Blob (Kevin Durand), a really quick glimpse of Deadpool (Van Wilder Ryan Reynolds), and probably a couple I just don’t recognize. We also see Logan as a soldier pre-adamantium skeleton. All it all it’s pretty goddamn awesome. Right up until he flips over a Hummer and jumps at a helicopter. Come on, is that really necessary? Wolverine is awesome enough without giving him ridiculous abilities (aside from the incredibly powerful healing factor, badass claws, and indestructible skeleton of course). Overall though I’m psyched.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine kicks off the summer movie season May 1st. What’s your take on the trailer? Does it make you want to rush out and see the movie? Or does make you hesitant?