My girlfriend watches X2: X-MEN UNITED for the FIRST time 

Something that doesn't get talked about enough in this film is the talk between Magneto and Pyro on the plane. How Magneto pulls the lighter from Pyro and then tells him about manipulation of others and then HANDS the lighter back to him in a subtle way to show Pyro he doesn't want to control him. Great character moment!!!

Nightcrawler's opening scene was one of the best experiences I ever had in a theater!

My sister was born with Muscular dystrophy so severe that she was in a wheelchair from when she was 2 years old and throughout her whole life. When we were younger her nickname was Wheels so I get reminded of her every time Jen calls Professor X Wheels, who was also one of her favorite X-Men. Watching these movies with you guys brings up a lot of good memories so keep up the good work. Bless you and all your friends and family.

The Green Goblin cut took me so off guard,i actually contemplated if that was actually in the movie😂😂

The 'female wolverine' is Lady Deathstrike. In the comics she's a cyborg with a mad hate-boner for Wolverine. She also has super long extremely sharp talons instead of fingers. Hence the nails.

Death, taxes, and Jen saying “Holden Thomas Hardman” after a sexual innuendo… the assurances of life.

The zoom in while Jen is talking about Jean Grey was hilarious I lost it 😂

Brian Cox as Stryker was always so believable that dude really dove into the role and it friggen shows.

Wow That original *90's X-Men theme* takes me back... It's so good!

This movie was the first to perfectly blend an origin story into a team up movie. Very few before or after have been able to accomplish that as well as X2.

“Oh my God how twisted!….I love it.” 😂 Love seeing the way Jen’s brain works watching these movies

Bobby’s “coming out” scene is amazing. Out of all the Marvel comics and movies, I like how the X-Men tackles real life issues like racism and homophobia.

The long zoom in on Holden, while she was venting about Jean’s death, had me dying 🤣🤣💀

My two favorite "little moments" of this film have always been when Lady Deathstrike's head clunks on the bottom of the vat after being injected with the adamantium, and when Magneto and Mystique are talking to each other laughing then he says to Rogue, "We love what you've done with your hair."

Lady Deathstrike's claws aren't her fingernails. If I remember correctly, they come from her fingertips. In the comics, I don't even think she has retractable claws. Her fingers are just really long, claws.

Jen is on point. Even the good X-men movies have a habit of using a lot of characters that are nothing more than cameos. Heroes and villains that are fully fleshed out characters in the comics end up as mute henchmen without personalities.

Love Ur channel thanks for helping me feel less lonely and giving me the joy of reliving the excitement of these film through Ur reactions 😌🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Nightcrawler in the White House is still arguably the best scene in the X-MEN franchise.

To this day, this is the only movie I’ve ever watched back to back viewings in the theater. Saw it the Friday it came out, went home and my cousin was about to go see it and I went back with him.

Bro, that zoom in was SO FREAKING GOOD. Reasons to keep you on my bell notifications, buddy... Have a great year!

Knowing that Jen hasn't seen the Fantastic Four yet, I wonder what her prediction would be to have the X-men and the MCU forced together and the interactions and conflicts would be and who would be dominant in the world.

The music during the White House scene is Mozart's 'Requiem' the very last thing he wrote before (and about) his death.

From what I understand, the scene where Bobby outs himself as a mutant to his parents had a lot of input given by Sir Ian McKellen himself and as very much intentionally treated like a kid coming out to their parents.

Jen, I ask that you please continue calling Professor X, "Wheels". Brings a smile every time!

Holden's face at the end when, Jen is talking about Jean....PRICELESS!!!! Have a safe and Happy New Year, Holden & Jen!

The green goblin and Darth Vader edit, brilliant 😂😂😂

I can see why Deathstrike's nails seem like an unnecessary gender-specific thing but I really think it's just a design necessity to switch it up. If she just had three claws come put of her hands like Logan, then she's even more of a carbon copy and less of an individual and less threatening

Loved nightcrawler since I was a kid. Wish he had more screen time across the X-Men movies.

The first X-Men movie was I think too hesitant, because they didn't know what direction to go in, so many options. This is when they hit their stride. Shout out to the Kurt shirt!

The duplicate was a VERY different version of Lady Deathstrike. She's a cyborg made of adamantium with adamantium claws, but here, they don't come out of her nails, they come from her finger tips. About 13 years later, Bobby was revealed to be gay in the comics... It wasn't great how they did it though. Now we go to the third film, where we cycles from bad person Bryan Singer, to Brett Ratner awfulness...

I remember when the trailer came out for this and the movie released it was really exciting for people. Wolverines using his claws to kill people and the viscous fight he had with the mercenaries. Everyone was excited and it was what felt like X-men.

Fun fact: my dad went to high school with the security guy that shoots Nightcrawler’s arm in the White House. As a guy who loves filmmaking, I always found that really cool. :)

X2 is my favorite of the first X-Men trilogy. Good stuff. Really curious how Jen is going to respond to X3.

Props for the magic shell joke around @16:58

Holden, I swear these edits are comedy gold 😂green goblin jumpscare, Darth Vader hallway scene cmonnnnnnnnn now 🙏

Oh my God, that Step Brothers cut in killed me. So funny.

I loved the question Jen had where she wondered why Storm couldn’t make the weather better…. and my answer is because her name is “STORM” not “SUNSHINE” 🤪😎

I was really excited to see you watch X2. One of my favorite marvel movies and very reminiscent of Spider-Man 2 in terms of the second movie being better. If you plan to watch the First Class X-Men movies I can’t wait for you to watch Days of Future Past. Love the channel. Always a highlight for me. Happy New Year you two!!

Well the female version of Wolverine is X-23 (Laura Kenny). I know she’s a clone of him but thats who she is. I think Jenn will enjoy Logan I hope Holden tells her that she’s actually a teenager & not a child

Crowd went super crazy for Collosus debut and for Pyro going super mayhem in cinema

The number of times Jen has said ‘Holden Thomas Hardman’, it is engrained in my head....

Magneto was by far the best part of this movie. Every time he did anything, it ruled so hard.

I have to say, those intros keep getting better and better!

"BlueBerry Girl....." that made me laugh way harder than it should have.

I've got to say, this was one of the best depictions of Nightcrawler's power, on screen, including in cartoons. This was exactly how someone with the ability to teleport, coupled with his acrobatic ability, would fight.

The “Female Wolverine” character is from the comic books and so are her nails which were comic book accurate. Lady Deathstrike.

Out of all the Xmen films, this one is the best.

"Oh my god, how twisted" Also Jen: I love it 😂

For the longest time this was my favourite super hero movie ever. I've come to be fond of it as a series of isolated awesome set pieces just queued up one after the after.

"I hope you werent too attached to..." and Jens reaction every time is my favourite recurring gag on this channel 😂

This one is the best out of the original 3 for me. That nightcrawler scene is so good!

Magneto’s escape is one of my favorite scenes of all time!

Really proud of Jen remembering characters' names: Mystique, Pyro, Bobby, Rogue.

Let's pause for a second to think about Jean's power demonstration at the end - she was lifting up the X-Jet with her telekinesis which is HEAVY AF, and controlling all of its buttons and getting it ready to fly, and stopping a huge amount of water from just washing them away, AND preventing Kurt from using his teleportation powers, ANDDD she took over Charles' mind for a moment so she could communicate with Scott to say goodbye (even Charles was shocked by this when you see his reaction after the connection is broken), she's so OP!!

Mannnnnnnn, this movie was AMAZING first few times I saw it. This was the first time they really got Wolverine right. When he pins the dude to the fridge and screams I just felt like they got it. Still one of my favorite superhero movies. Keep up the good work guys!

Director's Cut - Green Goblin appearance! Don't recall Rogue exploding the Blackbird...but it has been awhile ;-) Excellent work as always!

Always cool seeing Remy LeBeau's name on the computer. Nothing against Taylor Kitsch, but hope we get a badass live action Gambit one day.

Loving the Step Brothers reference there, made me chuckle!

Lmao the goblin cameo edit thru me off for a second

This is my favorite movie out of the X-men trilogy. Love the vid!

In the comic Nightcrawler is Mystiques son

8:43...I remember watching that in the theatre here in Davenport, Iowa. Logan grabs that guy and pins him to the fridge, the whole crowd gasps, then this guy like two rows behind me screams: "YEAH, BADASS! YEAH!"

Everytime I see Cyclops now: "It's the guy from sonic!"

You’re really bringing the nostalgia with that old X-men theme.

Did anyone love the fact Jenn called Xavier " wheels " 🤣🤣🤣🤣 loved it. Jenn is the best

X2 is one of the best superhero films ever made! The action, drama, even a few horror elements are just perfect!

Lady Deathstrike was verrrrryyyyyy different in the comics and actually knew Wolverine very well. But when comic books get turned into movies, things get changed or shortened or warped so I just let things go sometimes lol

X-2, Days of Future Past, and Logan are my favorites of the X-men

There is an underrated series no one probably never gonna recommend to you Banshee And it's a shame no one talks about this show because imo is one of the best Tv-Series ever made

Love the quick insert of the Green Goblin into Jean's mind reading at the beginning!

Holden has had his humor shine lately especially with the seduction lines with wolverines claws and Jean (mystique) 😎🤣😂

I spit my beer out when the goosebumps dog was thrown in there. 😂

I love seeing the smoke effect every time Nightcrawler teleports .

Fun comic facts: 1. This movie was in response to the previous when fans were like "it's not really like the comics that much". So this movie is based off of a graphic novel called God Loves, Man Kills, mixed with the lore they'd already put down. 2. Lady Deathstrike (female Wolverine) looks nothing like that in the comics. She's also not a mutant in the comics, but is in fact a leader of a cyborg mercenary group, who have altered their bodies with alien technology. She, in particular, has 4 foot long robot arms that end in razor sharp claws, hence the nails (its not just 'cos girl'). 3. Nightcrawler is Mystique's birth son in the comics (his father is a demon named Azazel... Wait whaaaaa?!) and Rogue is her adopted daughter (who gets her permanent powers of flight and super strength from holding on to Ms Marvel/Carol Danvers for too long in the comics) 4. The metal man is Colossus, and his sister (in the comics) is Magick, Anya Taylor Joy's character in the not so great final Foxiverse movie, The New Mutants. 5. The girl who phases through the bed is Kitty Pryde, the actress being replaced by Eliott Page in later instalments. She gets a brief mention in the first movie as a 'girl who could walk into a bank vault'. 6. The pilot for the 90s X-men cartoon was called Pryde of the X-men, and was made in the late 80s. Due to a sudden shift in aesthetics, fashion, and music, the pilot was scrapped and remade just as X-men, with Jubilee replacing Kitty Pryde as main expositional audience stand-in character (mainly because she had a 90s aesthetic in both fashion and powers, and is essentially a walking highlighter. This is also why Dazzler was taken out as there powers were too similar, and Rogue was put in as she had a similar personality to Dazzler). The pilot episode can still be found on RU-vid. Some scenes from the show were cut together to make the opening for the 90s cartoon..... ..... And Wolverine has the best accent ever in it

Adding that green goblin scene in was genius lol Edit: Almost spit out my coffee with the Step Brothers clip

The "HOLDEN THOMAS HARDMAN" makes my day everytime.

That goosebumps reference killed me 😂

holden just staring into our souls and the zoom in is just gold lol

When they edited in the “Hey y’all don’t say that!” From Step Brothers, I laughed real hard. Holden is a funny dude.

That goosebumps edit was genius

The “Lady Wolverine” is actually based on a character from the series known as Lady Deathstroke. She had antimantium claws just like that, so I don’t think they were trying to make a point about her being a female

When I first read Magneto in the 70s, he didn't need extra iron injected into you. There's plenty of metal in the human body already. Iron is what makes your blood red, and Calcium is a metal. In the comics, he would lift and toss people and Avengers all the time by their blood.

That little clip of the hallway scene made me want to watch Rogue One again.

The Logan is an art professor joke was later "realised" in the comics he was professor of "The art of fighting without fighting" and also "The art of fighting with fighting"

MUST do a montage of Jen saying “Holden Thomas Hardman!” Lol

3:14 The absolute last thing I’d expect Holden to ever reference is spy kids lmao

Holden, I love all the splicing in of other media. I get the same ideas popping in my head when I watch a movie and a line reminds me of something else. So funny. "you don't say that!" from Step brothers made me laugh out loud.

It made my day to see the Goosebumps tie-in into the "Sen. Kelly" eye glow lol

The thing about the lady with the nails is, her name in the comics is Lady Deathstrike, and those are her actual powers in the comics, she was a love interest of Logan's in the comics. Also, I really enjoy the parallels between mutants and the gay community, which was really put centerfold with that line tossed out by Bobby's mom.

The woman is Lady Deathstrike from the comics. The nails are actually comic accurate. The difference is that in the comics she is a cyborg, not a mutant.

That's was an amazing way to throw Green Goblin in there Holden.

I met the guy that played Colossus at comic con. Super cool dude. He was playing the Master Chief in Halo Forward Unto Dawn movie

9:29 In the comics William Stryker's a religious fanatic who thinks mutants are devil spawn. Nightcrawler is also Mystique's son. She had a son with Sabretooth called Graydon Creed as well who became an anti mutant politician.

Need more "Holden Thomas Hardman ! " moments from jen

The intros to Holdens videos just get better and better

I stumbled across your X-men videos and I love you guys! These movies were always my favorite some of them are a little weird but still good overall

Love these Holden, it’s like I’m watching a movie with friends I love it 😁

The edits in between gets me all the time lmao

Lol that slow zoom when Jen talks about Jean's death.

Watched the original trilogy as a kid and always loved The Last Stand, watched it multiple times a day back then. Can't wait to see her reaction