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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
X2 Official Score, May 7, 2003
By A Customer
First things off, this soundtrack is better than X-Men 1,(although I REALLY liked the music from the first movie) and none of the themes are brought over from the first movie which is bad or good depending on if you liked the first movie's score.
As you probably noticed Michael Kamen has been replaced by John Ottman(who was originally supposed to score X-Men 1) and with it comes a new style to the score. While Kamen used lots of techno, Ottman goes to traditional orchestra and lots of chorus. Like I said there are no themes brought over from the first movie which I loved but Ottman makes up for it with a FANTASTIC X-Men theme, which can be heard in the first track. I would have enjoyed it even more however if Ottman brought over the Brotherhood theme from X-Men 1 along with Magneto's and Mystique's theme but it's excusable because of just how much better Ottman puts up his music into heart pounding moments of triumph. GREAT SCORE AND SOUNDTRACK
Curiously absent though is the music from the first scene in the movie when Nightcrawler attacked the White House, I was looking forward to listening to it but it wasn't included, what gives.
BUY IT!
-Written by Max Folkman
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nightcrawler's Attack, May 12, 2003
Just an FYI - the choral music behind Nightcrawler's attack on the White House is the "Dies Irae" from the Mozart "Requiem" (K626). The translation from the Latin is "Day of Wrath, that day will dissolve the earth in ashes as David and the Sibyl bear witness. What dread there will when the Judge shall come to judge all things strictly." A fantastic use of this amazing work.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful Music for a Wonderful Film, May 12, 2003
Before I get started, I must confess, I loved the soundtrack to the first movie so this isn't meant to bash it, but most of the music from it was completly disjointed and didn't have much of a melody. I feared the same would be true of the sequel's score until I saw John Ottman attatched as composer. I had been a fan of his work before and I knew that if anyone could bring the kind of grandiose score that X2 needed, it would be he. Luckily, he doesn't dissapoint. Gone are the overt and often abrasive electronic sounds of the first score, Mr. Ottman opted for a more traditional orchestra approach instead. The album kicks off with Suite from X2, which, if I'm not mistaken, was the music used for the closing credits. (Don't quote me on that, though.) It begins with the wonderful main theme for X2 which sounds much better than the original X-Men theme, and then from there it takes us through some of the other themes from the movie, then returns at the end to the X2 theme. The one problem I had with this album was that the tracks were out of order from their place in the film. I've yet to understand why, since the mass adoption of CDs, soundtracks are still arranged in strange ways. However, this turns out to be a non-issue since the flow of the album seems to work better this way. All of the tracks seem to naturally flow from one to the next, despite being out of order. This makes for a wonderful listening experiance. I can't really say much more about this album, it's just wonderful. Some of my friends have said, "Why do you think it's so great. It doesn't sound like a traditional superhero soundtrack?" Well, to them, I answer, "The X-Men aren't really superheroes. They are a minority fighting bigotry and oppression...they just happen to be a comic book team." So, enough rambling, go buy it. ;-)
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