Deadpool & Wolverine

Have you seen the Loki TV Show on Disney Plus? Then you’ve seen this film, It’s the exact same storyline. Can’t give you a play by play while keeping this spoiler free, so you are going to have to trust me on this.

If you took all of the swear words in Deadpool, and Deadpool 2 and added them together you would get Deadpool & Wolverine. That’s not a good thing. There’s a point where the crude jokes and vulgarity take away from the movie and not add to it. Adding crude words to jokes that don’t need them doesn’t make the jokes funnier. I mean, holy sh!t, could we please stop swearing every d@mn second and get our act together so we can have one tiny d!ck-@ss amount of meaningful f*cking dialogue without all of this bullsh!t, annoying-@ss language that the sh!tty writers probably b!tched at Marvel to include? H3ll, this is getting f*cking ridiculous!

Do you want to see Deadpool take out a bunch of TVA goons with Logan’s adamantium skeleton? Do you want to see a Deadpool movie with the gore turned up to 11? If so, then this is the movie for you. There is soooooo much gore in the film, and don’t fret, there's tons of 4th wall breaking for Deadpool to do in this movie!

This movie’s storyline is inline with the Deadpool, and Deadpool 2 storyline. It’s meaningful and has substance to it. Do you know what the storyline for Ant-Man Quantumania was? Do you know what the storyline for The Eternals was? I don’t, but I can tell you the storyline for Deadpool, and Deadpool 2. Saving the girl, and saving the little kid. Similarly the storyline for this movie is, saving the friends.

Director Shawn Levy stated that they wanted to make a stand alone film that wasn't a commercial or a set up for the next Marvel film and they did that, but to a fault. The movie feels like a “Fox” Deadpool movie still. They didn’t use any A list MCU heroes in the film. It seems like Marvel made them play it safe and only let them use B list characters in case the film flopped so they could write it off as an alternate timeline film. It still doesn't feel like a MCU film. They didn't even shell out for an A list character cameo to cement it in the MCU. It still has the campy feel of the first Deapool movie, but with a budget and production value that makes some of the decisions that they choose for the film seem weird and intentionally restrictive incase Marvel had to back peddle a flopped film.

The third act is rushed. No idea why but it;s rushed. It also looks like and ends in the same spectacle of how X-Men: Dark Phoenix ends. It’s like Hugh Jackman couldn’t shake the bad X-Men movies from Fox and had to add a bit of them into this movie. It’s just a bad ending that soils a pretty great film up until that point.

Don’t get me wrong, this is a great film and an awesome Deapool movie. It feels like a Deadpool comic book run. Funny, quirky and self contained. It’s in the MCU, but not “in the MCU” like Deadpool comics. If you have never read a Deadpool comic then the direction that they took this film in as it’s MCU debut would seem really weird. This movie panders to Deadpool’s core audience and unapologetically ignores everyone else.

It is a great film that embraces the weirdness of superhero comics and finally fully embraces superhero costumes and it works. It’s so cool to finally see Wolverine in his comic book accurate costume. They even tweaked Deadpool’s costume and it looks awesome!

The film jokes about having a “mcguffin” to end the film with, but just because you joked about it, it doesn’t mean that then using that same mcguffin to end the film is a good choice.

The film doesn't really go anywhere or develops anything besides personal growth for Deadpool and Wolverine. There are basically 4 set pieces/areas for the whole film. The film goes in a circle and I feel like I wanted more in the storyline and world to develop more. It blue balls you with Deadpool and multiversal traveling when the trailers for the film make it seem like Deadpool is going to do a “Kill the Marvel/Fox Universe '' thing and the storyline couldn't be further off from that.

It’s a film that preached about shooting high and saving the MCU, but in reality they played it extremely safe and followed their tried and true format of previous Deadpool movies. Still a great film, but it didn’t make Deadpool “Marvel Jesus” in my book.