X-MEN ’97
Get animated, they’re back!
In the eye of the Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith).
A SATURDAY-MORNING CARTOON RETURNS (TO WEDNESDAYS)
★★★★
OUT NOW (DISNEY+) / EPISODES VIEWED 3 OF 10
SHOWRUNNER Beau DeMayo
CAST (VOICES) Cal Dodd, Lenore Zann, George Buza, Catherine Disher, Chris Potter, Alison Sealy-Smith, Adrian Hough, Ross Marquand
PLOT Still reeling from the loss of Professor X (Marquand), the X-Men find themselves facing all-new challenges.
WITH ITS ELECTRIFYING synth intro, endlessly quotable catchphrases and eye-popping aesthetic, X-Men: The Animated Series was peak ’90s Saturday-morning TV. And yet the show, which originally ran between 1992 and 1997, still somehow always felt way ahead of its time. Almost three decades later, then, the arrival of X-Men ’97 makes perfect sense. Serving as neither remake nor reboot but rather a direct continuation of the original series, this isn’t simply the nostalgic ’toon you know and love. It’s the show X-Men was always meant to be.