According to this week’s Sci-Fi News Wire, Patrick Steward says that X-Men 2 will be less boring:
Professor Charles Xavier's extended exposition in the first movie bored Stewart. “Yes, indeed,“ he said. “That was tedious. But I had a couple of nice scenes with Sir Ian [McKellen, who played Magneto], which bookended the film. I’m happy to say that this screenplay now assumes that everyone knows what’s going on and who we are.
And, maybe I’m in the minority on this one, but I didn't enjoy the first X-Men all that much. Of course, I should have known that it wouldn’t have much action, being that it was only PG-13 :-/.
Also from that issue, Warner Brothers has shifted the release date of The Matrix Reloaded to May 15, 2003, from May 23, 2003. Cool, I wasn't even aware of the original release date ;). At any rate, The Matrix Reloaded currently stands as my most-anticipated movie-release of 2003!