‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Is a Rousing Time at the Cinema
4/5 Wolverine popcorn buckets
As Deadpool & Wolverine points out, Hugh Jackman’s Logan is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe at kind of a low point. But yet again, our Marvel Jesus is here to make us laugh and feel like we are so back. Happy to report that Deadpool & Wolverine rules, actually.
Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) needs to find a purpose, and he does so by torturing Wolverine at every turn—which isn’t that surprising; it IS a Deadpool movie. But where the third installment stands out is in its ability to bring Wade’s humanity and openness to light. He will always have a snarky one liner, but buried in that is a man who deeply cares about people and wants to protect them.
It has all the big action sequences fans want, Deadpool and Wolverine just going to town on each other because they can and neither of them will die from it, but they use that to their advantage. My favorite shot in the whole movie might just be one that, of course, turns all of this into inuendo.
As is always the case with Wade, his story centers around Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), but this time it’s different. He isn’t desperately trying to get her back, but is instead trying to better himself for once—and doing it with Logan at his side makes it an exciting journey for the audience to go on.
There are some pacing issues, and I found myself asking why we were still doing some things while barely scratching the surface of others, but it overall feels like the Deadpool movies we all know and love, and that’s what we wanted!
Oh my surprises!
The biggest thing I can say about this movie that isn’t going to spoil you is that you simply need to see it ASAP if you don’t to be spoiled by anything. There is a LOT that happens in the film’s slightly over two-hour runtime, and every moment had me laughing out loud, surprised they went there.
But what works is that Deadpool & Wolverine isn’t just about the cameos. Much like the scene when Wade sees the X-Men in Deadpool 2, it all helps to serve as Wade Wilson’s wall-breaking gaze into things, while the story is still his. While yes, there are more than ever before, they’re still rooted in Wilson’s journey.
They don’t take away from what Logan and Wade have to do, and it still feels genuine seeing these two characters coming together to try to save the world one unhinged joke at a time.
Hugh Jackman is so back
Jackman’s take on Wolverine is one that helped redefine the character. Seeing him back (and in the yellow suit) surprisingly means a lot. I didn’t really ever need him to be this version of Logan, but it works and brings a new Logan into the mix.
After Logan, I didn’t think I needed to see Jackman in an X-Men movie again. Yet, it really works to make us care about this version of Logan. And yes, it’s nice seeing his arms out ready to fight at any given moment.
It’s fun and very Deadpool
I think many people wanted this movie to solve the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s problems. I don’t think it aimed to do that, nor do I think it does. What this movie does is tie a nice bow on what the Fox movies did for superheroes. It is a love letter to the studio, faults and all.
This could have been another movie that ruined what we love about Deadpool movies to make it fit in with the MCU, but instead, we got to see what a Wade Wilson movie under the MCU umbrella would look like done right.
I don’t think it is the messiah people want it to be, and that’s a good thing. It is a movie about Deadpool and Wolverine, just as it should be.
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