The Credible Nerds watched The New Mutants last night. After two years of delays, the film finally premiered in theaters!

This movie is definitely an X-Men movie and makes occasional references to the main storyline, however it is not the typical X-Men movie. But keep your eyes and ears open for those references! There are 6 main characters (that we haven’t seen on screen before) that you follow throughout the story and the story mostly takes place in one location.

The New Mutants is a character based story and unlike the other films, there is no world ending event, an alien invasion, or millions of people aren’t at risk of being killed. Instead it’s a more intimate story about relationships, making new friends, and coming to terms with new mutant powers.

One thing about this film that stands out from the others, is that it is creepy scary! A lot of jump scares (that aren’t cheesy or forced) and some ‘WTF is happening!’ moments that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat. This brought a whole new element to the X-Men movies that I hope gets revisited at some point down the road.

Marc and I thought that it was refreshing to have this new take with a superhero movie, and we recommend seeing it in theaters, if you are willing and able to go see it in theaters.

The Credible Nerds will be recording a podcast episode to fully review the film and give our thoughts on The New Mutants, so look for that to be released in the next couple of weeks.