New Mutants (4 Stars)

This is a film featuring characters from the Marvel comic with the same name. I wouldn't say that it's based on the comic, because their origin story bares no resemblance  to anything in the comics. The powers of four of the youngsters are the same as in the comic, whereas Illyana Rasputin's powers only roughly approximate what she can do in the comics.

The film follows 16-year-old Danielle Moonstar, a Cheyenne Indian. Her tribe is wiped out by a catastrophe, assumed by the media to be a tornado, but as we find out it was actually Danielle who killed them by inadvertently using her powers. She's taken to a hospital where there are only four other patients, all of her own age. They're mutants who are being trained to control their powers. In Danielle's case, her powers are unknown, so there's a mystery as her powers are slowly revealed in the course of the film. Of course, it's only a mystery to anyone who's never read the comics. Her power is to make the fears of other people become reality (not illusions, as the Wikipedia page falsely states).

When I watch films like this I regret that I've stopped writing my Marvel Years posts. I stopped at the end of 1974, due to the bugs in the new Blogger interface which Google has so far been unable to fix. The New Mutants didn't appear in Marvel's comics until 1982.

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