Deadpool & Wolverine

 

“Let’s ******* go!”

Energetic, irreverent and unashamed, Deadpool & Wolverine is an absolute blast of action, obscenities and exposition that’s full of hearty love & respect for the legacy of the Foxverse that will leave diehard fans suitably serviced and thrives on the chemistry of Jackman and Reynolds as the titular antiheroes who breath much-needed life back into the MCU!

Discussion Points:

Another film that I love despite its narrative multiverse flaws and that’s a great nostalgic bender and antidote to the current superhero fatigue. To try and explain the plot of this film would require a lot more effort than maybe was put in. It’s a lot easier to rattle off the numerous cool visual moments and cameos, over rattling off the impactful plot points. But messy and thin narrative aside, Deadpool & Wolverine is an absolute blast that had me continually grinning from ear to ear and cheering and surprised at what they were able to get away with. Ryan Reynolds continues to breathe life into the Foxverse and now the MCU, injecting it with some much-needed energy that the film itself even acknowledges. His Deadpool remains just as fast-talking and foul-mouthed as previous, and his dynamic with Wolverine allows one to lean more into the comedic and the other into the dramatic, suiting both actors talents with Jackman able to give a great, fresh take on Logan unbound by previous versions. The rest of the cast is more there to entertain and excite the audience, rather than move the plot along, but the films comedic capital is at its height frequently, with plenty of hearty laughs and perfect musical needle-drops, and the action remains just as bloody and creative. As a love-letter to the Fox era of Marvel it’s really well done, as a parody of the current state of superhero cinema it gets away with both pointing out the problems whilst also participating in them, and as an injection of energy into the MCU post-Endgame it should leave people excited about the future of mutants and the multiverse going forward.