I consider Gambit one of the lamest X-Men ever, and I ditched the comic before they really drove him into the ground (wikipedia for the shocking [to me] details).
I'll put it this way...the fan casting for Gambit when he was popular was Jean Claude Van Damme

That says a lot.
I do apologize for the minor thread fart. I hope they do some neat stuff for this film, because Hugh made Wolverine interesting again, for the first time in YEARS. I don't expect much, but maybe Jackman and Hood have some nice tricks.