‘X-Men ‘97’ Season 2 review: A return to the familiar and fabulous
The second season of 'X-Men '97' is praised for its vibrant animation, engaging storytelling, and successful blend of nostalgia with modern production techniques. It continues the adventures of the X-Men across time and space with high energy.
Why it matters
It highlights the successful revival of classic intellectual properties through modern animation, appealing to both legacy fans and new audiences.
The animation and music still rock, and adventures across space and time are delightful. Picking up where Season 1 ended , with the X-Men scattered through space and time, the first order of business is to get the X-Men together to mount a defence against the first mutant and now supervillain, Apocalypse, complete with his Four Horsemen (Death VII, Famine V, Pestilence VI and War VI), bent on wreaking destruction.
The X-Men are identified as being in two blocks of time — ancient Egypt (always fun) and 2000 years into the future in 3960. The convergence point is 1997, continuing as it does the story of X-Men: The Animated Series , which ran from 1992 to 1997.
Jubilee (Holly Chou) has some fun in Episode 2 as she explodes fireworks, listens to music, blows bubbles, defeats the bad guys and frees other detained mutants after she is captured.
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