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Composer: John OttmanConductor: Damon Intrabartolo
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Music Label: Trauma
Soundtracks:
- Suite From X2
- Storm's Perfect Storm
- Finding Faith
- Sneaky Mystique
- Cerebro
- Mansion Attack
- Rogue Earns Her Wings
- It's Time
- Magneto's Old Tricks
- I'm In
- If You Really Knew
- Playing With Fire
- Death Strikes Deathstryke
- Getting Out Alive
- Goodbye
- We're Here To Stay
Free Music Notes for X2
Free Music Review: An Improvement Over the First Score
Hit: 4 Stars
While Michael Kamen provided a last minute replacement score when John Ottman was busy with other projects that was mainly electronic in nature with a minimal orchestra, John Ottman provides an orchestral score that is everything that the first X-Men score was not. However, Ottman managed to provide a sound that honored the original Kamen score, only with more thematic presence.
There are several themes in the score. The first is the main theme for the X-Men, which is an upbeat march for brass, which is largely featured in "Suite from X2" and "We're Here to Stay", while bits and pieces of the theme are interweaved throughout the score. The most prominent theme in the score is Jean Grey's theme, which is an awe-inspiring theme complete with chorus and full orchestra. It is my favorite theme in the score. As Ottman explains during the creation of the score on the DVD, there are also motifs for Nightcrawler, Pyro, Magneto, and Mystique, in which samples of them can be found in the first track. Nightcrawler's motif can also be found in "Finding Faith", Pyro's motif can be found in "Playing with Fire", Magneto's motif can be found in "Magneto's Old Tricks", and Mystique's motif can be found in "Sneaky Mystique". "Mansion Attack" is a 7-minute action cue which features dynamic brass writing, percussion hits, and piano strikes.
The only minor difficulty with some of the music is that it can take a while for it to get going in parts, as lots of it is "filler" music. But, once the thematic material and the action music are present, they really take off. With the additional work of editing the film, Ottman managed to multi-task, creating a great score for a great film. Ottman did not return to score the third X-Men film, due to his work on Superman Returns, so John Powell provided that score.
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