I can accept that summer action films have a certain obligation to pander to the lowest-common-teenage-boy-denominator. I can accept that the boobies/explosion to dialogue ratio has to be high. But what I can’t stomach is the fact that every single female character Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men First Class — except for Prof. X and Magneto’s Mothers — needs to be objectified throughout the duration of the film.
It would be one thing if we were just talking about a “token female” character, but the cast is littered with women, and every single one is either completely or partially naked at some point in the movie.
Don’t get me wrong — I liked X-Men. It was a lot of fun. But I couldn’t help but be distracted at the way in which having Emma Frost turn to diamond or Mystique turn …