Generation X (1996) (TV)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Jack Sholder

Writer (WGA):

Eric Blakeney (written by)

Release Date:

20 February 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

heroes are no longer born... ...they are created.

Plot:

A group of young mutants--humans with a genetic variation that gives them superpowers and makes them...

Plot Keywords:

Mutant | School | Teenager | Sonic Scream | Hate

Cast

Matt Frewer	...	Russel Tresh
Finola Hughes	...	Emma Frost
Jeremy Ratchford	...	Sean Cassidy
Heather McComb	...	Jubilation Lee / Jubilee
Agustin Rodriguez	...	Angelo Espinosa / Skin
Randall Slavin	...	Kurt Pastorius
Bumper Robinson	...	Mondo
Suzanne Davis	...	Arlee Hicks
Amarilis	...	Monet St. Croix / M
Kevin McNulty	...	Ralston
Lalainia Lindbjerg	...	Kayla
Gary Chalk	...	Detective Gaines
Lynda Boyd	...	Alicia Lee
Joely Collins	...	Jeannie
Wally Dalton	...	Pruitt

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:15

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

MT2 Services

Trivia:

The Xavier school used in the movie is the exact same school use in the X-men movies for the Xavier school for gifted youngsters. The same building is also the mansion Lex lives in Smallville.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: While Jubilee is supposedly playing a video game, in fact the screen shows the between-games demo and the legend "Insert Coin."

Quotes:

Monet St. Croix: Little girl, does this sound like bragging to you? I'm giving you helpful information for the good of your survival.
Jubilation Lee: Oh, and how is this helpful?
Monet St. Croix: Because little Jubie, none of us gifted kids get along. And I'm telling you the last person you should be messing with.

Movie Connections:

References Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Soundtrack:

Telephone Call From Istanbul

The good, the bad, the mutant.

For it's time, probably the best comic adaption made. This is before comics adaptions became big. It was plagued by a bad plot, a terrible time-slot and advertising that was minimal and geared only to the comic crowd. Anyone who didn't read the comic, or at least some X-Men comics and Wizard had no clue it was even related to the X-Men. They didn't even play off of Jubilee's popularity. Marvel, at the time was a different company and was pushing hard to make this movie a TV show, and get the pilot movie itself more airtime. But, at the time the TV companies wouldn't -touch- something like that (makes you wonder how Mutant X made it).

The characters were well played, with Banshee, the White Queen, Jubilee and Skin directly pulled from the comics, though with Mondo and M being watered down for more -real- versions. Husk was replaced by a body-building -strong- girl, and they added-in a cyclops knock-off.

I think the concept should be looked upon again.

Generation X is a story about the younger mutants at Xavier school for the gifted, the ones not old enough to be X-Men. They used an alternate Mansion somewhere in the midwest, and were lead by Banshee and the White Queen. I'd love to get into the plot, but I only saw the broadcast as a kid in '96. I just remember the plot wasn't very good.

Here's hoping that it gets a DVD release, perhaps in the big-deluxe-special edition DVD for X-men: The Last Stand, or something. Quality comic book TV-media has gotten the short end of the stick as far as DVD releases. I'd love to see the Saban Entertainment version of the X-Men cartoon, or the Maxx from MTV's oddities get a DVD release.