The Plot: After the unanimous flop that was Last Stand, First Class takes a step back from X-Men 1-3, looking at how our favourite mutants became the characters they are today. The film was originally intended to chart Erik Lehnsherr's humble beginnings but widened its beam to look at how Professor Charles Xavier became a wheelchair-bound leader of a mutant school. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender playing the opposite forces of the X-Men universe was too tantalising a prospect to ignore, and the film ended up downplaying Lehnsherr's vengeance in favour of developing the characters around him. The Subplot: Lehnsherr is seeking revenge for the death of his mother, trying to find the evil Sebastian Shaw. What could've been a character study on an evil force turned into a reboot for the series; suddenly Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and McAvoy were leading the action, with Lehnsherr's plot taking more of a backseat. It's not that it wasn't a great film, it's that showing more of Fassbender's Lensherr against a real-world villain would have been fascinating. Are we ever going to get a Fassbender spin-off dedicated to more of what Lensherr got up to when he went looking for Shaw? Here starts the campaign for Magneto: Nazi Hunter... Which movie subplots do you love more than the main plot? Let us know in the comments section below.
