Filled with in-jokes, intense battles, surprise celebrity cameos, and iconic pop tunes, their superhero bromance is a thrilling ride.
Deadpool and Wolverine Review: The latest Marvel blockbuster brings Hugh Jackman’s brooding, growling Wolverine into the foul-mouthed, irreverent world of Ryan Reynolds’s Deadpool. This Deadpool and Wolverine Review will dive into how Wolverine, also known as Logan, surprisingly fits right in and follows Deadpool’s rules. Essentially, Deadpool and Wolverine is all about Deadpool and Ryan Reynolds.
While the film’s surface is filled with clever meta-humor, it doesn’t dive too deep—and that’s likely intentional. This Deadpool and Wolverine review finds that the movie offers a fast-paced, self-aware commentary on comic book franchises like X-Men and Disney’s corporate power. As Deadpool and Wolverine exchange industry jokes, it’s like watching giants play a game of pickleball.
For any superhero movie, especially a Deadpool one, this level of irreverence would be enough, but there’s much more. Reynolds’ breezy, witty humor is on full display in Deadpool & Wolverine. There are at least three jokes about his marriage to Blake Lively, and a quick line about Jackman’s Broadway role in The Music Man, and it just keeps going. Good luck counting all the Easter eggs in the movie; there are so many that even an Easter bunny would struggle. This Deadpool and Wolverine review acknowledges that fans will have their work cut out for them.
This creates a dizzying, fun atmosphere, almost like nitrous oxide has been pumped into your IMAX theater. However, it can also become exhausting. Reynolds is like a court jester who doesn’t know when to stop. King Henry VIII might have had a simple, harsh solution for such behavior.
The movie starts off brilliantly. Deadpool digs up Wolverine’s remains—who heroically died at the end of Logan in 2017—and jokes around with the skeleton like a frat boy with Yorick’s skull from Hamlet. Soon, Deadpool fights off a team of military assassins, severing limbs and heads while NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” plays. Deadpool and Wolverine Review highlights the stylish, fast-paced violence, which is often more engaging than the jokes. Still, it’s hilarious to see Deadpool (in a flashback) without his mask and wearing a wig, attempting a career in car sales.
From there, the movie dives into a very thin plot that could easily be used as a shoebox. Deadpool and Wolverine Review observes that Deadpool jumps through alternate universes, trying to find a living Wolverine to prevent the collapse of all timelines. The car sales job might have been more interesting and possibly came with benefits.
Deadpool eventually finds Wolverine, but soon they find themselves in a desolate, junk-filled place called the Void. This area is ruled by the villainous Cassandra Nova, played by Emma Corrin from The Crown, who resembles a hardened version of the late Sinead O’Connor. She is terrifying and can do awful things with her fingers, like insert them into a person’s head as if she’s holding a bowling ball. But the movie focuses more on the bickering bromance between Deadpool and Wolverine, which occasionally feels as playfully homoerotic as the rivalry between Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist in Challengers.
In perhaps the film’s best scene, Deadpool and Wolverine Review notes that Deadpool and Wolverine have a brutal, metal-crushing fight inside an old Honda Odyssey, all set to “You’re the One That I Want” from Grease. By morning, they are asleep in the car’s front seat, with Deadpool wrapped in his seatbelt in a way that hints at a bondage kink.
At this point, the plot introduces some fun, familiar faces (I won’t spoil who they are, but they are stars clearly enjoying their roles). The excitement—or maybe relief—of their arrival shows how little investment you might have had in everything that came before or after, although Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” provides a triumphant, ironic ending. It’s a shame “La Isla Bonita” wasn’t used during the Void scenes.
Matthew Macfadyen from Succession plays the main villain, Mr. Paradox. He’s a grumpy middle manager who, unlike Deadpool, doesn’t realize that surviving in this world requires talking directly to the audience or knowing that Henry Cavill played Superman for another studio.
In conclusion, this Deadpool and Wolverine review finds the film to be a wild ride filled with action, humor, and plenty of surprises. Deadpool and Wolverine are in theaters now, offering a blend of chaos and comedy for fans of the franchise. If you enjoy a movie that doesn’t take itself too seriously, this is the film for you.
