Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.

Special features: commentary by Brian Singer and Tom Sigel; commentary by Lauren Schuler Donner, Ralph Winter, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris, and David Hayter; theatrical trailer; documentary "The second uncanny issue of X-Men"--Making of X2; 11 featurettes: "The secret origin of X-Men," "Nightcrawler reborn," "Evolution in the details - designing X2," "United colors of X," "Wolverine deathstrike fight rehearsal," "Introducing the incredible Nightcrawler!," "Nightcrawler stunt rehearsal," "Nightcrawler time-lapse" (branch from make-up), "FX2 - visual effects," "Requiem for mutants--The score of X2," "X2 global webcast highlights"; 11 deleted scenes; still galleries.

Director of photography, Newton Thomas Sigel ; editor, Elliot Graham ; music, John Ottman ; costume designer, Louise Mingenbach ; production designer, Guy Dyas ; visual effects supervisor, Michael L. Fink ; special effects supervisor, Gord Davis.

Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian Mckellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Cotter Smith.

An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for sci-fi action/violence, some sexuality and brief language.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround; DTS 5.1; anamorphic widescreen (aspect ratio 2.40:1).

Soundtracks: English; dubbed French; dubbed Spanish; with optional English and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.