User blog comment:LoveWaffle/Ranking 2013's Superhero Movies/@comment-26711120-20140115181923/@comment-1895174-20140117151326

Not necessarily. The movie promoted itself as a prequel, but has far too many continuity issues to really work as one. You leave the movie with more questions about how the X-Men came to be, which is the last thing a prequel movie should do. As a reboot, it doesn't work either, because it still keeps Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Recasting him and the other major X-Men is going to be the biggest hurdle to rebooting this franchise. And any alternate-timeline shenanigans in DoFP would just be compensating for the continuity issues in First Class.

Not that I think First Class isn't a good movie, just not the best. Like, if I were to rank them:


 * X2
 * 1) The Wolverine
 * 2) X-Men
 * 3) First Class
 * 4) (intentionally left blank)
 * 5) The Last Stand
 * 6) Origins