See, I loved the second one, well, what I seen of it.
I've never seen any of the first one.
I really need to get them both on DVD then go see the third - to be fair, from what I have seen, it appears to out-do the rest of the superhero franchises. Spiderman was decent, but X-Men kinda wins.
Admittedly I've only seen about 90% of the second film
