The longer-form trailer for X-Men: First Class ups the ante on a couple very important ingredients in awesome sauce, to wit sexiness (that sure is one good-looking cast, and they each appear to recognize just how good-looking all the others are, judging from all those come-hither glances and leaning in for kisses) and jaw-dropping feats of I Am Superhero, Behold Me-ness; Magneto lifting a submarine with his bare, trembling magnetic hand and stopping a dozen-or-so possibly-nuclear missiles by the same means . . . wow.

I don’t know about y’all, but I’m ready to geek out with my beak out for this one. (Yes, I’m excited enough that I don’t care how dumb that sounded).   

Danny Bowes is a playwright, filmmaker and blogger. He is also a contributor to nytheatre.com and Premiere.com.