Screener Squad: X-Men ’97 Highly Suspect Reviews

X-MEN ’97 SERIES REVIEW

In the late fall of 1992 after a previous failed pilot, the X-Men animated series hit the airwaves, ushering in a new phase of animated Marvel cartoons. Despite being plagued with production, budget, and time constraints it remained popular enough to last until 1997. A few years later, X-Men the movie was released giving X-Men fans a new era of live action adventures. Then the MCU entertainment juggernaut came along, reshaped superhero movies, and renegotiated rights for popular characters held by other corporations. Once Spiderman swung into The Avengers, it was only a matter of time before people began calling for Disney/Marvel to bring in the X-Men. And Disney finally answered that call by restarting the X-Men animated series, setting it in 1997, and picking up where the series left off. Was it still going to have the cool opening? The same character actors? Was it just meant to collect nostalgia bucks? Wright takes Bradley and Lewayne along on this little trip down memory lane to see if the X-Men animated series holds up, or if we should keep our fingers crossed for whatever live-action X-Men movies get released with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and some other people with superpowers. Listen as they discuss the new Marvel animated series, X-Men ’97.

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CREATED BY: Beau DeMayo

STARRING: Ray Chase, Jennifer Hale, Alison Sealy-Smith, Cal Dodd, J.P. Karliak, Lenore Zann, George Buza, A.J. LoCascio, Holly Chou, Isaac Robinson-Smith, Matthew Waterson, Ross Marquand, Adrian Hough, Gui Agustini, Catherine Disher, Gavin Hammon, Eric Bauza, Donna Jay Fulks, Christopher Britton, Gil Birmingham, Christine Uhebe, Chris Potter, Theo James, Ron Rubin, Todd Haberkorn, David Errigo Jr., Courtenay Taylor, Martha Marion, Lawrence Bayne, Kimberly Woods, Abby Trott, Travis Willingham, Moria Gorrondonna, Cari Kabinoff, Jeff Bennett, Kari Wahlgren, Anjali Bhimani, Rama Vallury, Gates McFadden, Adetokumboh M’Cormack, Josh Keaton, Michael Patrick McGill

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)

Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.

 

 

Bradly Martin (Screener Squad, Eye on the Prize, Breakfast Pub)

Bradly Martin was born in the united states and grew up on a healthy diet of sports, films, and books. A rather shy lad who kept to himself, Bradly soon discovered the best way to know a person was to know what people liked. Throughout the years Bradly became a fan of many things and a fanatic of none. From Doctor Dre, to Doctor Strange and the who’s who of Whos. From Playstation to the Dreamcast and Marvel to DC. From LeBron James to James Bond and Lord of the Rings to Lord Palmerston (or Pitt the Elder if you agree with Wade Boggs) and is a huge fan of dad jokes and randomly obscure Simpsons references. Armed with a vast knowledge of comics, films, and pop culture. Bradly traveled the world making friends and sharing takes. As a young man Bradly married the love of his life young and grew older every year with each new child brought into the...