The reason the character roster feels weird is that it is not about the X-Men but Generation X. Generation X were essentially the late 90s replacement for New Mutants - a team of rookies learning under the guidance of Banshee and Emma Frost. In the comics they were not stationed in Xavier's School but in the Massachusetts Academy - formerly the Hellions' base of operation.

I actually have a VHS copy of this! Not a pirate copy, not an imaginary copy, not a dream copy, an actual copy! 😂

Wait until you find out there's a Nick Fury television movie that came out in 1998 starring David Hasselhoff.

Until 2010, this film was shown regularly on TV here in Brazil.

It's funny that this movie paid more respect to Jubilee than literally any of the theatrical films ever have.

I was an X-MEN obsessed teenager when this came out. It was all we had so we ate it up. We cleared our plates and asked for seconds.

I think they wanted the villain to be like a psychic Shadow King type villain, but at the last minute they changed their minds and made him discount Jim Carrey Riddler.

You forgot to mention that Emma Frost was played by Finola Hughes of General Hospital for she is still on the soap to this day!

Generation X deserved better. Also, this totally would have been a TV series if it was in the old CW.

The Punisher DOES have arch-enemies-Jigsaw, The Kingpin, Bullseye.

I remember being genuinely excited about this movie. I had it written down in my assignment notebook so I wouldn't forget. Back in the day this was all we'd get in the way of live action superheroes, so we had to be thankful for what we got.

drinking game: take a sh0t each time that he says X-Men instead of Generation X. 🥃😁🥃

In 1996, there was a drought of superhero live contact. I made sure to get off work early.That day so I wouldn't miss one minute of it.🗣

I swear this actually came out as a show. Also, Matt Frewer is awesome. What a career.

God I miss Kevin Conroy. I wasn't expecting to get hit in the feels there at the end.

Vee at that time what Emma Frost was wearing in this show , was far more conservative then anything she wore in the comics , in or out of her costume 🖖🏾

I still have this on VHS I got it free with a Generation X graphic novel lol

No joke, I used to watch this movie every month when I was a kid, it used to play on TV in the afternoon at least once a month, I loved this movie, it was the pinacle of superhero movie when I was a kid, now I realize how bad it was, but it still has a special place in my heart.

Matt was Trash Can Man in the first TV adaptation of The Stand

Buff was a replacement for Husk, Cannonball’s sister.

As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I knew EXACTLY what movie you were gonna talk about.

Max Headroom as the Villian of X MEN

The thing that stands out to me about the film more than anything is that Mondo is played by Bumper Robinson. Yes, Bumper "The Voice of Falcon, Deadshot, Cyborg, Bumblebee, Rook, War Machine, Black Lightning,..." Robinson. So at least his Comic Adaptation pedigree wasn't tarnished by this, though I think the only time he's specifically returned to the X-Men franchise was voice Bolivar Trask in the Origins: Wolverine Game.

Holy moly! I didn't know that anyone else even remembered this existed! That's awesome! This was actually my first interaction with the characters of Emma Frost and Banshee. You could go so far as to say that it inspires me to really go deeper into the comics. I still have it from where i recorded it on VHS from when it aired on Television.

When Jubilee is your most well known X-Men in the show you're in big trouble.

I can't tell you how awesome this was for kids born in 1984. We all raced home, had our blank VHS' and VCR's ready, and were glued to the TV. The time slot relied on dull adults to move it forward though. The marketing was phenomenal.. on arcades, posters, the comic shop, commercials.... and then they stick in a late night evening slot 1 time. It's actually not that bad for a comic book movies from the 90's.

I pray this entire cast makes a cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine

I remember seeing it when it came out, I think it was on Fox, or wb? It was like plucking characters from The New Mutants, X-Force, X-factor, X-men, and made up some characters for the show, I was heavy into comics at the time, so seeing the commercials for this had me hype! It’s not great by any measure, but this was way before the x-men and spider-man movies, so I know its hard for people to understand how things were before the internet but when this came out, the internet was in its infancy, and what we had were books, TV, and magazines, so seeing finally some superheroes getting their own movie was exciting for us comic readers.

So mad at how they did M in the movie. Shes amazing in the comics same with Skin and emma

This kinda reminded me of The Gifted, you know, that OTHER X-Men show that came out around the time of Legion

...I like X-Men Origins: Wolverine...

6:36 He was also great as Rat Man in The Stand (1994). Talking about chewing scenery.

Not only are you mistaken that I’ve never seen it. I watched it when it came on TV for the first time.

You went to X-men school too?

Wait, is one of that villain the same actor who plays the time traveller from TNG, the one who claims to be from the future but is just a conman from the past who found the machine?

The Nostalgia is real with X-Men

Shame they cheaped out on Husk because with the right practical effects, her molting powers would be AMAZING in the MCU

Some say that Jim Carrey stole his shtick from Matt Frewer

Ah yes, the 90s camera tilt, the twin brother of the 90s fish-eye camera lens.

I can understand them eliminating Chamber and Husk due to the budget, but still don't understand getting rid of Synch. Sure, his power in the comics has a psychedelic aspect to the way it looks, but that wouldn't be hard to pull off, and anyways, they don't need to put in the visual aspect. At a basic level, his power is to copy the power of other mutants around him, which should be quite easy due to the fact that he'd only be using effects they already had in their budget. Especially if they only had him mimic Mondo, Buff, or Emma, since none of them in the movie really had powers that required VFX. Penance being gone is the most understandable, though. Would have been a nightmare under their budget to try to figure out. Sadly, no Artie or Leech, either--those two are the best duo Marvel has ever come up with, and nobody can change my mind on that (and Franklin Richards was a good addition to the dynamic as well).

I remember this movie because I had the comics. Back then, I thought it wasn’t bad at all. I was in my early twenties…Guess I should rewatch it (or not!).🤔💭

Jim Carrey stole his whole act from, "That man."

Bumper Robinson, who plays Mondo (the one who was Polynesian) was in Family Matters and recently playing additional voices in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and played Deadshot in the SSKTJL game. He has been busy.

The villain Matt Frewer was in a lot of good movies in the 90s.. honey I shrunk the kids and national lampoons senior trip are 2 of my favorites with him in it

Rather confusing how someone like Skin made it in but not Husk. Even taking the budget into account. Skin doesn't stretch like Mr. Fantastic (as seen in the dubious 90s CGI). He's basically got several extra feet worth of skin he can manipulate (or at least, at the time this movie was created/aired). In fact, for a while he was drawn looking more like a shriveled old man than a teen. *What does this have to do with Husk?* At a glance, her powers sound _really_ special effects intensive; she's basically a shapeshifter with a gimmick of ripping off her outer layer of tissue (husking herself) in order to do it. Except it is pretty easy to shoot around, due to that aspect. You don't need a careful, expensive CGI transition from Husk's current form to whatever she's shifting into. Sound effects and implying some/all of it happened off screen would do... and probably look better than Angelo did in the film.

I watched it on release. Thought it was fine. Again, you have to judge on the curve of the 90's and TV. This is a more entertaining movie that "Steel" for instance.

I remember watching this on Fox 2 in Detroit I just remember it being just kinda of weird . To be honest I didn't hate it

It was on Fox, it’s a product of its time. So it has that tv goosebumps filter coupled with its virtua fighter 2 arcade love, like that x files episodes around then with jack black in it and opens with playing virtua fighter 2 in an arcade. Kids nowadays don’t get how big fox was back then.

Still a better Emma Frost than January Jones

I was 18 almost 19 years old when this aired on FOX back in 1996 and the only thing this pilot accomplished, for me as a fan, was to piss me off!

Oh, 11-year-old me recorded this when it played on Fox, and I showed all my friends. I loved it at the time. Movies always changed comics when adapting them, so I didn't take offense.

I watched that when it aired originally and guess what that’s the best we thought we would get

Im old enough to have watched this when it aired on Fox back in the mid 90s. My whole fam sat down and watched it with because i was so geeked out, they wanted to know what all the hype was about. I honestly believe it only aired once and was never brought up again.

That print ad really activates my nostalgia. I remember nothing about the actual movie itself.

I didn’t know Jubilee was Asian at the time, seeing she just looked like a white girl with black hair in the cartoon to me. (When she actually looked Chinese in the last season I was confused) The X-Men game in the background reminded me of the Double Dragon game in the movie.

Don't forget the first live action Danger Room!

Question: Which movie is worse, Generation X (Marvel) or the Justice League of America (failed DC Comics TV pilot from 1997)?

If all you knew about Jubilee was from the X-men animated series you probably would think she was white. That’s how they drew her. Her parents were white in that show.

Matt Frewer can actually act. His brief turn in the Dawn Of The Dead remake is proof of that. Too bad he only got to mug for the cameras in this turd.

The characters are mostly based on an X-Men comics spinoff series in the 90's. The first year or two of issues was a good read and adds a lot of context to what this movie is trying to emulate. The cast really tried, but this movie is definitely limited by its budget and the sfx technology available at the time. As for the cursing, adult content, etc. There was a big push in the 90's to market comic books to adults like the Watchmen, Dark Knight, and a few others managed to do in the late 80's. The problem is that most of the time, it wasn't done with mature storytelling or complex social commentary. Usually, the artists just drew very sexually explicit panels, and the writers cussed a lot. That's how we got the Snyderverse 👎👎👎 Those cameos are priceless tho 🔥🔥🔥

I saw this on TV as kid. For the longest time I thought this was just a literal fever dream.

This was bad, but back in the 90s we were starved for anything X-Men based. Its biggest shortcomings is its budget, choice of characters, and a lot of the story.

I know it's hard to believe for the younger generation but there was a time when "super hero" movies or anything having to do with comics were roundly treated mostly as a joke with rare exception (Superman, Batman, etc.). X-Men's early 90's popularity surge was what helped change that, which is also why it was mistreated so horrifically so often. The suits knew that "the kids" that were really digging the X-Men were 10-16 years old, & it was 90's. Hence the schlocky acting permitted, crap budget, and the constant sexual innuendo. This is one that rightfully should just stay buried. Here's hoping the MCU gets X-Men right whenever they get to it, I've yet to truly enjoy any live action iteration of it so far.

I had this on VHS as a kid and actually liked it 😬 I think all the weird adult references went over my head. I was very aware they couldn't afford Husk and Chamber though 😁

is it the only Xmen film that utilizes Jubalee and not just have her cameo? is it really THAT BAD, apart from the fart scene?

Here is the thing. As bad as this movie is, I loved it at the time because it was all we had! We waited forever for an X-Men film, and I was a huge Generation X fan (loved them since there were introduced in the phalanx covenant) so when I saw the commercials for this, I cleared my schedule! I still remember being the only person I knew who was so excited! So yes, it sucked, but I loved it and am so thankful that it was made!

They DID end up working this into something completely new. It was called Mutant X, and was actually quite good, and got three seasons. It was still produced by Marvel, but had no connection to the X-Men or the Marvel universe, because 20th century Fox had exclusive filming rights to X-Men at that time.

Matt Frewer was also in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Lawnmower Man 2, and The Stand!

Max Headroom! I believe that he was the Mask in the animated series as well.

Thank you for posting this! I watched this on Fox 2 the night it premiered. I wasn't even in the double digits yet so I loved it. Haha

That was the yummy Finola from General Hospital. back in the day and Staying Alive

VR Troopers was Waaay Better than this. That's for sure. 😎👍💯

Yeah, back when people weren't offended by every little thing and could take a diss without crying to the cops and people would just watch a movie and either like it or not and move on.

#MattFrewer (#Empyrean) Was #MaxHeadroom & ALSO in #LawmowerMan 2; Job's War #HeatherMcComb Was ALSO in #Hellraiser 3: Hell On Earth & Was Married To #DawsonLeery AKA; #JamesVanDerBeek & #KeriRussell Was HUSK (ArleeHicks) & #TylerLabine Cameoed As: Chamber (See Arcade Scene).

Actually, watching Matt Frewer in this video, I can't help but think that he would've made a great Joker.

@Vee Infuso Please do a video on X-Men Evolution, aka the Teen Titans precursor.

Matt Frewer also from the Dabney Coleman movie Short Time

Forgotten? Nope- I still have a copy on VHS from when it aired. Also- putting Matt Frewer in a movie automatically disqualifies a movie for any kind of "worst" categorization. Frewer was HILARIOUS in this movie, shame on you! :P

Heather McComb is lovely and underrated. She was a guest star on Party of Five.

This video made me really want to watch this movie.

Just saw Double Toasted do a Roast on this. Oh goodness!

They were all the same mansion??? That bizarrely feels so mindblowing to me! 😂

Come on. If Disney found a reason to revive them as a blip in the multiverse and make a couple of bucks, they'd do it.

great video man!

Every point you made is spot on , but Vee IMO you should have at least made the point , that since Fox made this pilot trying to hopefully catch onto some of the X-Men 90’s animated series fans , while working on the major motion picture & deciding not to use any of the mainstream heroes or villains that were planned for that first trilogy of X-Men movies …🖖🏾

For years I was unable to convince anybody this was real. They all thought I was nuts or making it up.

This piece of sh*t is real?! I thought i hallucinated this movie? Actually i thought it was a show and ppl kept acting like i was crazy, waiting for the second episode.

I thought that last one in the asylum was terrible 😊

I've seen this

"Emma" was also doing the role of Storm...which is why she has control of wind and temperature. That's why she's acting stern, regal, and dramatic. That's the bad, white wig origin.

That was not the first X-Men movie. Marvel Comics was making Generation X the new Mutants version. It failed miserably. The movie plot was based on Generation X comics. The comics failed so bad that they killed off some of the characters.

The guy that has an issue seeing a white jubilee probably wouldn't say a word about a black wolverine 😅

I remember seeing action figures of Skin everywhere when this came out.

That villain had a Jim Carrey complex!

Russell Was SUPPOSED To Be "Empyrean" & #ScottLobdell's "Generation X" Was Actually Supposed To Be A Feature Length Pilot Episode For The Cancelled Full-Series; Which Later Became: #MutantX. Very Much Like "Pryde Of The X-Men" Was A Pilot For The Saban Produced FOX Animated Series (92-96).

To be fair it was a tv pilot done in the mid-90s. The amount of studio interference and lack of faith in comic adaptations was crazy. So while it's bad, there's a lot of valid excuses as to why it's bad. The same cannot be said for the post-2000s movies...those are just lazy cash ins aimed at a mouth breathing audience with little to no standards.

4:48 Bro Frank Castle as *Kingpin* .. the roster of mutants they picked sucked Skin got too be 1 of the worst mutants , they could have picked someone kooler like "Sunspot and Boom Boom"

This and other videos help to demonstrate why Disney has been so allergic to the idea of doing justice to the X-Men for so many years: how does one even begin to untangle the convoluted mess that is the franchise's history?

I'm from Ireland and saw an ad for this movie in a comic book and this was before streaming services etc, so there was literally no way to see it. I was obsessed with the idea of what an x men movie would have been like. Obviously didn't have to wait *too* long, but y'know...

Ironically, X-Men Days of Future Past is the best superhero movie ever made. Honestly, Origins was never and will never be this bad