A Genuine Crowd-Pleaser
Summary
Deadpool & Wolverine delivers nearly everything you could want from it with our two leads destined to become an iconic duo that will leave the audience hungry for more. It isn’t perfect and some may just consider it pure fan-service, but I had a great time as there are some genuinely surprising cameos and it isn’t short on R-rated action too.
Plot: A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. But when his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctant Wolverine.
Review: I think we call agree that even if you’re not a fan of superhero movies Deadpool & Wolverine is arguably the movie event of the Summer. We’ve been promised multiple cameos and the mere idea of seeing Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) on screen together is worth the price of entry alone.
I’m pleased to say that for the most part Deadpool & Wolverine lives up to the hype delivering the right amount of humour, R-rated action scenes and emotion to elevate the MCU from the slump it’s been in since Spider-Man: No Way Home. This is similar in that it’s made purely for the fans and is a genuine crowd-pleaser. There are regular references to the comics and of course the cameos are occasionally mind-blowing. I will say nothing else at this point as I never do spoilers (without ample warning) but they are hugely entertaining and at times hilarious.
The script is what you’d expect from a Deadpool movie with lots of meta-jokes, crude humour and swearing, while also giving us enough stakes to care about what’s happening. You never know who is going to live or die in this movie and that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
The action gives us plenty of gory fight scenes with limbs being lopped off and there’s a huge bodycount however, it’s all so cartoonish that there isn’t anything disturbing about it. I also was hoping we would get to see X-Men battling at the end with the TV show theme tune blaring triumphantly, but sadly it wasn’t meant to be.
The villain Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin) isn’t all that exciting and won’t be remembered like many of the MCU antagonists, but she is adequate and has a few gross moments.
Reynolds and Jackman make for the perfect duo bickering and fighting (violently) feeling like a buddy cop duo from the 80’s.
It’s hard to really discuss much else without spoilers, but it’s well paced clocking in at 2 hours, so for once it doesn’t overstay its welcome.
Overall, Deadpool & Wolverine is arguably the best Deadpool yet and I expect it to be a huge hit with a sharp script, laugh out loud moments, plenty of action and some amazing cameos.