Deadpool & Wolverine Review: Bloody Fun MCU Fan Service
The Merc with a Mouth is finally entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
fuses the 20th Century Fox X-Men movies with the MCU. Functioning as the latest Phase Five installment and a third Deadpool movie, this film stars Ryan Reynolds again as Wade Wilson, the wisecracking superhero who finds himself face-to-face with the Time Variance Authority. (For those who have yet to see the Loki TV series on Disney+, the TVA is an organization that monitors the series’ various timelines.) Wade must now team up with a variant of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to save the timeline from Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen).
Deadpool & Wolverine is a cinematic delight. It is a loving tribute to decades of Marvel multi-media projects while being just as loud, brash, and bloody as the first two Deadpool movies. It’s a brilliantly entertaining experience that needs to be seen with the largest crowd possible. When Jackman hung up the claws in 2017’s Logan, the world believed we were done with this iteration of the character. But if anyone were going to get Jackman back into Wolverine, it would be his real-life friend Ryan Reynolds. And who better to direct it than Shawn Levy, the man who directed Jackman in Real Steel and Reynolds in Free Guy and The Adam Project?
Deadpool and Wolverine are a match made in heaven. Reynolds and Jackman have phenomenal on-screen chemistry with each other. Like all the great comedy duos, we have the funny man (Deadpool) and the straight man (Wolverine). Deadpool is at his funniest when he’s butting heads with more serious characters, and we saw some of that in 2018 with Josh Brolin‘s Cable.
This film carries that sequel’s buddy cop torch, with two characters who have to work together but are inches from killing each other. What makes it even funnier is that because these characters can’t die, they get to genuinely hurt each other in ways that would murder anyone else. They’re almost like a bloodier Tom & Jerry — two mismatched frenemies who will maim each other
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