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X-Men: First Class - ★★ All X-Men films are fairly tortuous allegories for racial and sexual equality. So casually turning evil or killing all of the black characters in a single scene that made no sense at all and turning the obviously gay Magneto straight is sort of ironic. 
The 60s setting would have been slightly more convincing if anyone spoke or behaved in any way as they did then and the main plot was completely nonsensical even for a comic book film. 
Still, the Magneto bits were quite good although it wasn't explained why a German-born Jew when he got angry (which he does quite frequently) would switch to an Irish accent.
Compared to the previous X-Men: The Last Stand, this film is infinitely better. But that could be said of just about anything.