X-Men: The Animated Series (TV Series) Time Fugitives - Part Two (1993) User Reviews

r u kidding me -- writing is cinema calibre, or BETTER

[A_Different_Drummer · 10/10 · 13 February 2014]

Let me be clear. If this story (the second part of a two parter) had appeared in a live action Marvel movie, I would be penning a review just like this. The fact that it appeared in (ostensibly) a kid's cartoon show two decades ago (this review written in 2014) makes me feel like one of the time travellers (what Wolverine would call "time jockeys") in the script. In Part I you have a story that could stand on its own -- a time traveller from the future comes back to fix things, and, with pretty much non-stop action and some clever plot twists, succeeds. So how do you improve on something which itself is almost perfect? Do a second part where yet another time traveller comes back because he believes that the events in Part I damaged "his" future and now you have a cartoon where the events are superficially a repeat of the first part, yet with subtle changes.Layers on layers. Wow. A lot of youngsters watching this series went to bed with a higher IQ that night. I have done a lot of reviews here, seen a lot of movies, but off the top I cannot recall a live-action film with a story this good. So while the suits in Tinseltown continue to grind out live-action remakes of films which don't deserve it (the last Spiderman set was specifically made to preserve a legal option the producers owned and had nothing to do with a desire to entertain!!) the template for superb story writing is ironically in a 20 year old animated series. Time travel anyone?

Let's just do it again, but then EVEN better

[robinhio84_ · 10/10 · 1 August 2022]

They did here what no one asked for: perfect an already perfect episode. X-men is cool. And for Disney to ask for a continuation with X-men '97 is all explained by this episode.

And a little spoiler, it's awesome to see that on of the background characters is finally working with the X-men. It's someone that knows about Jean and Cyclops ;-)