You know it's Summer blockbuster season when a major franchise movie is hitting theaters seemingly every week, and Memorial Day weekend was no exception with the arrival of the apocalypse (X-Men: Apocalypse [1], that is). The film is over two and a half hours long, so you'd better believe it's packed with action, humor, new characters, and a lot of Olivia Munn wearing a leather bathing suit. It's satisfying as a whole, though I couldn't help wanting a bit more from new villain Apocalypse, not to mention infinitely more of Evan Peters as Quicksilver [2]. With that being said, here's a spoiler-filled rundown on the movie's biggest moments.
When the Movie Opens on an Epic Sequence That Includes the Crumbling of Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
When We See Cute Oscar Isaac . . . as Apocalypse
When the 3D Opening Credits Are Awesome and Nauseating at the Same Time
When Apocalypse Wakes Up After a Bajillion Years and All You Could Think of Was Jon Snow
When Apocalypse Meets Storm and Starts Going Over His World Domination Plans
When You Realize Storm Started Out as One of the Baddies
When Apocalypse Keeps Murdering People Using Only Sand
When Mystique Shows Up in That Supersexy Purple '80s Dress
When Scott Accidentally Blows Up the Bathroom With His Eyes
When Sansa Stark Shows Up Claiming to Be Jean Grey
When We First See Magneto and He's This Adorably Normal (and Hot) Welder
When We Find Out Magneto Has a Wife — and a Daughter!
When the Authorities Come For Erik After He Saves a Guy's Life
When the Birds Start Swarming and You Realize Nina Has Her Own Powers
When Erik's Wife and Daughter Are Tragically Killed With 1 Arrow
When Erik Kills All of the Authorities Using Just a Locket
When Professor X Is Being Adorable Trying to Flirt With Moira
During Every Scene that Nicholas Hoult and Jennifer Lawrence Have Together
When Apocalypse Takes Over Cerebro
When Quicksilver Saves the Whole School to the Tune of "Sweet Dreams"
When Havoc Sacrifices Himself to Save the X-Men
When Wolverine Shows Up For His Requisite Cameo
When You Think About How Someday Wolverine and Jean Grey Are Going to Have Sexy Times
When You're Waiting For Quicksilver to Drop the Bomb About Being Magneto's Son
When Psylocke (Olivia Munn) Finally Does Something Besides Just Standing There in a Leather Bathing Suit
When Nightcrawler Saves the Whole Team on the Plane in the Nick of Time
When It's Looking like Professor X Is Really Done (Even Though We Know He Comes Back For Later Movies)
But Then He Fights Back and He and Apocalypse Are Boxing — in His Mind
When Magneto Switches Sides to Help Take Down Apocalypse
When Mystique Tells the New Kids That They're Training to Be X-Men
When You Leave the Theater