
“Witness the moment that will change our world.”
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of X-Men, not taken from this film’s own record.
X-Men: First Class (2011) ranks 2nd of the 7 rated films in the X-Men series, at 7.3/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.8/10.
It arrived 5 years after X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), the longest wait between any two films in the X-Men series.
Its 13,856 TMDB ratings are 16% of the 86,263 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for X-Men, comparing all 7 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.

X-Men: First Class is film 4 of 7. See the complete watch order.