The movies should be judged on their own merits, without picking them apart as to whether and to what degree they match up with the comics. I wouldn't have chosen to change Angel into a female, but taking a male character and introducing a female version of that character is and old school tactic for updating things for a modern audience.
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Originally Posted by K-Wise
these movies so casually fuck up the time lines on everything anyway making a character like Ice Man who's older than most of the other characters by far save for maybe Wolverine into a teenage boy among other things why not put Gambit all out?
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Bobby was the yougest of the original X-Men, in the Lee era, and was in his late teens by the time the nes X-Men were introduced, about the same age as the new guys.
The movies mix the original X-Men from the 60's, the New X-Men from the 70's, and those introduced later in the 80's, as if they were all introduced at roughly the same time. This is how it's always done; without this time compression, we wouldn't get wolverine until 8 or 10 movies into the series at the earliest. Since Bobby's role when he was first introduced was as the kid, it makes sense to keep him in that role when he's first introduced in the movies.