Summer has just begun, and already the comic-book superheroes are in flight (well, some of them). Enter the X-Men and Green Lantern, who will do their best to try to make you forget about Thor!

Based on Stan Lee's classic Marvel comics, X-Men: First Class is the fifth installment of the X-Men film series and a prequel. Taking us back in time, before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr ever took the legendary names Professor X and Magneto, we see the two as young guys discovering their powers. Not archenemies, they were actually best friends (gasp!), working together with other Mutants to prevent nuclear Armageddon. But soon enough they turned into enemies, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men. And we all know how that turned out!

Based on the DC comic series by Geoff Johns, Green Lanterntakes place in a mysterious universe where a small but powerful force --- the Green Lantern Corps --- has protected peace and justice for centuries. Each Green Lantern wears a (pretty cool) ring that grants him amazing superpowers. But then a new enemy called Parallax enters, and the fate of Earth lies in the hands of the first human ever selected to become a Green Lantern: Hal Jordan. He's gifted but cocky, so can he really be the one to save the whole world? Or does he need a little help from the X-Men?

More brawls and otherworldly battles are guaranteed to excite you at the box office this month, so it's time to spring into action and, you know, save the world and stuff.

X-Men: First Class
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Ross Byrne, January Jones, Kevin Bacon
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Release Date: June 3rd (wide)
Based On: The X-Men comics created by Stan Lee

Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new) to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.

Green Lantern
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett, Tim Robbins
Director: Martin Campbell
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Release Date: June 17th (wide)
Based On: Green Lantern, the DC Comics series by Geoff Johns

In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest recruit, the first human ever selected: Hal Jordan.