X-Men: The Last Stand cleaned up at the box office, but fanboy whipping post Brett Ratner still drew at least a bit of ire for the gun-for-hire manner in which he brought to a (momentary) conclusion initiating director Bryan Singer’s adaptation of the popular Marvel comic book series. For a full review of the film, click here. This 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation, meanwhile, comes with crisp, robust 6.1 DTS ES and 5.1 Dolby EX soundtracks, as well as discrete Spanish and French tracks and optional subtitles in English and Spanish. Two separate audio commentary tracks are included, each of which are group offerings. The ever-sunny Ratner sits with writers Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn for a chat that dips into fanboy minutiae regarding the series, while the latter two also join producers Lauren Shuler-Donner, Avi Arad, Ralph Winter and David Gorder on another track, which gets into location and logistics a bit more. A nice collection of deleted and extended scenes runs just under 10 minutes, all with optional commentary from Ratner, Kinberg and Penn. Three of these are alternate endings of a sort to the movie, though none really fully point up the sort of grand emotional payoff that’s deserved for the series. An alternate meeting between Beast and Logan is nice, though.

There are alternately viewed menu screens (“Take a Stand” or “Join the Brotherhood”) depending on whether you feel like indulging your villainy on any given day, and two Easter eggs also dot the dual layer disc, along with some Marvel previews and a look at both Ben Stiller’s A Night at the Museum and an amusingly introduced, one-minute unfinished clip the forthcoming Simpsons movie. Still, the lack of comprehensive making-of docs is a bit of a bummer, particularly given the high-water marks of the X-Men 1.5 release and the like. It’s also worth mentioning, though, that the screener copy I previewed has some consistent problems with pixelization and grain throughout, bumping the grade down a bit further. A collector’s edition, though, is also available, though it includes only a Stan Lee comic book. B- (Movie) C+ (Disc)