The Best:

5. Comic book references galore
It's fitting that a movie about Wolverine's origin is going to the source material: comic books, where his origin has been told and retold and proved false numerous times. Some familiar scenes: a young Logan popping his claws and kneeling over a dead body (taken from Wolverine: Origin), Wolverine cradling dead girlfriend Silver Fox (Wolverine #10), and a berserk Wolverine tearing apart the lab where his bones were laced with adamantium (Weapon X).

4. Liev Schreiber with a mouth full of fangs
Considering that the last time Wolverine foe Sabretooth appeared in an X-Men movie he was played by a pro wrestler, this is certainly is a step up. Schreiber is an amazing actor, from his cross-dressing debut in Mixed Nuts to his upcoming turn in the Oscar bait Defiance, and it's good to see him cutting loose from his normally uptight roles as a savage man-wolf.

3. Wolverine takes a bullet
One of the great things about Wolverine is his ability to take damage, thanks to his accelerated healing factor and his unbreakable, adamantium-laced skeleton. So when he wakes up after the bone-lacing process and one of the scientists pops a cap in his skull and he just rolls his head back and growls, it's my favorite moment. And anyone who's been complaining about Wolverine being launched onto a helicopter windshield by an explosion without getting sliced to ribbons, just chill out. He does that stuff all the time.

2. A mutant who's who
One of the most disappointing things about X-Men: The Last Stand is that it supposedly introduced several well-known mutants to the franchise, but you would be hard-pressed to pick them out of a lineup. Here, you can totally spot the newbies: the fat guy boxing Wolverine is the immovable Blob, the Black-Eyed Peas' Will.i.Am plays teleporter Kestrel, and the card-dealing, staff-spinning Mr. Floppy-Hair is, of course, Gambit, the ragin' Cajun that comic fans have been dying to see in a movie. Although probably not as much as this guy...

1. Deadpool!
Did you see that guy with the swords? Did he look familiar? That's Ryan Reynolds, and he's playing Wade Wilson, the merc with a mouth, a.k.a. Deadpool. Granted, DP started off as a lame, wisecracking parody of Slade Wilson, a.k.a. Deathstroke, the DC Comics assassin-for-hire, but now he's a beloved member of the Marvel Universe, and Ryan Reynolds embodies him to a tee (see Blade Trinity for proof). The only problem we can see is that Deadpool's face is supposed to be a sea of scars, so bad that he rarely takes off his mask. Hopefully, Reynolds takes a shotgun to the face at some point in the film.

The Worst:

5. Wolverine walking away from an explosion
Granted, Wolverine has been alive for a while, so he may have been the first person to ever do it, but c'mon -- using his claws to light a river of gasoline and blow a building up while walking away in slow-motion? That is the biggest cliché in the history of film. I'm sure Wolvie could have come up with something less dramatic, but equally painful.

4. Gambit hogging the damn spotlight
Okay, we get it. People like Gambit. But Gambit gets to slam his staff on the ground, knock Wolverine through a wall and even gets name-checked (by Wolvie, in a kinda nasally voice), while Deadpool just gets a little posey bit. Dude -- it's Ryan Reynolds! And all due respect to Friday Night Lights, but isn't he a bigger draw than Taylor Kitsch? Hell, even Will.i.Am just does a walk-by! I'll be honest, I've never been a big Gambit fan, but this just seems like common sense, here.

3. Wolvie hanging onto that helicopter
While I have no objection to how he got up there, the shot of Wolverine hanging onto the helicopter for dear life makes me think about the very end of the first Mission Impossible movie, when Tom Cruise throws himself at the chopper and sticks explosive chewing gum on it, which is possibly my least favorite moment in the franchise.

2. Not enough Sabretooth
True, we got Sabretooth running on all fours, and the two of them fightin', and Wolverine threatening to cut his head off, but we want more. It's Liev Freakin' Schreiber! Show him in his army outfit, to let us know that he and Wolverine fought in the war together! Maybe have him do a scene from Glengarry Glen Ross? Anything!

1. Mutant babies
I know this takes place in the past, but is that really a young Storm in the trailer? Sources are saying that Storm and Cyclops are both in the movie, as children being held prisoner by the Weapon X program that turned Wolverine into a super-powered soldier. Wolverine has to rescue not only them, but also apparently Emma Frost, the White Queen. (Jackman has said she's in the film, and she may be the girl in the trailer who turns herself to diamond.) Part of me really wants to like this, but Storm and Cyclops were saved by Wolverine as kids, and neither one brings it up when they meet him in X-Men? Weird.

What did you think?