5 Comic Book Movie Reboots That Really Worked

4) X-Men: First Class

Technically a prequel as opposed to a reboot in the conventional sense of the term, X-Men: First Class nonetheless conducts a colorful re-imagining of a wide collection of superhero characters, who after two decent sequels had begun to teeter on the verge of turning stale. Matthew Vaughn’s prequel flick provides a welcome, fresh perspective on the series, taking the main characters of X-Men and investigating their intriguing origins by using an alternative ensemble cast.

X-Men: First Class provides audiences with some thoroughly intriguing backstories and aptly quenches fans’ insatiable thirst for knowledge about how these special members of society came to be. The movie is stylishly directed by Vaughn from beginning to end, with the filmmaker recruiting a perfect cast that fit their roles nicely – including Michael Fassbender as the increasingly bitter Magneto and James McAvoy as a youthful Charles Xavier. The movie keeps them all in check, too, and retains credibility by never allowing the characters to wander too distantly from the particular personality traits of the mutants that they eventually become.

Fast, furious and frenetic, X-Men: First Class is a prequel that works – rebooting the colorful supermutants in a way that makes their youth arguably even more enthralling than their adulthood.