Summer Movie #1: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I'm pretty sure that I will be watching all the big summer blockbusters except for a select few (Angels & Demons).  That said I thought it would be worthwhile to write my thoughts on each of them after I see them so I can look back on it at the end of the summer.

The first big movie of the summer was X-Men Origins: Wolverine.  This was a good way to start off the summer season, because it throws us right into what a summer movie is all about: a huge budget, action, special effects, and a pretty thin plot.  I don't have very high expectations for a high quality movie when I go to see the summer blockbusters and this hit about right where I would have expected.  I expected a little more from the X-Men franchise in terms of plot, but this movie was not made by the same team that brought us the rest of the movies.  So the plot was weak, but that was fine.  I enjoyed the action sequences and I liked that Gambit's character was finally introduced into the series.  They worked very hard to tie the whole story back to where the first X-Men movie picks up and they managed that for the most part.  I do wish that they were able to spend less time trying to make it fit neatly to the beginning of the first X-Men movie and more time on Wolverine's life prior to X-Men.  Overall this was a middle of the road summer movie that was mostly held up by it's action and special effects.