Deadpool and Wolverine – Review
I went to seek Deadpool and Wolverine aka Deadpool 3. I need to preface this review by saying that I have never been a fan of Deadpool. It took me quite a while to see the first one and I have never been able to embrace the crude humour.
My problem with the humour in the Deadpool movies is not that I am a pastor and I am “supposed” to be offended by it. I just find it immature and uninteresting.
Now that I have gotten that out of the way, I will say that I really enjoyed Deadpool and Wolverine. One of the things that I liked about it was this movie was not made because they needed a third movie for the trilogy or that they knew that it would make a lot of money (which it will). There actually was a story to tell.
The meta story is that Fox owned the right to certain Marvel characters and had made some movies with them. Then Disney bought Fox, which brought those characters (X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc.) back into the larger Marvel fold. While Deadpool and Wolverine is a Marvel movie, in another way, it is the last Fox movie. It is also Deadpool’s entry into the MCU.
One of the first questions that people had when we heard about this movie was about how this would fit with the movie Logan. That movie had a powerful conclusion to the Wolverine story. How could they bring Wolverine without diminishing what took place in Logan.
What I thought was funny was that instead of trying to treat the Logan death reverently, they treated it extremely irreverently. I will let you see the movie to understand what I mean. I will say that Wolverine stays dead but the multiverse allows them to use another Wolverine.
What Deadpool and Wolverine does well is to draw effectively from a number of wells. On one hand, they draw from the Loki series with the introduction of the TVA. They also draw from the wider X-Men mythos, specifically with the main villain. But most of all, they draw from the Fox movies that featured Marvel characters.
It has been said by many people that Deadpool and Wolverine is a love letter to the Fox era of Marvel movies. That is exactly right and it is what this movie’s legacy will be long after people have forgotten all the jokes. We have been eager for so long for the Fox characters to be returned to Marvel that we had forgotten all the great entertainment we received from those movies.
This movie has an incredible list of cameos, some very brief and some essential to the story. I will not spoil who they are but I will say that I was not disappointed. This will be the last time we see these versions of these characters, but they get the goodbye they deserved.
Of course this movie is called Deadpool and Wolverine and it is about them. Both characters are very powerful, especially because of their regenerative powers, but both seem themselves as failures. This is a movie about redemption and second chances. And that message comes across loud and clear.
There are plenty of fight scenes, including numerous ones between Deadpool and Wolverine. They are satisfying and they give the audience what they want. Then when they are start fighting together against the bad guys, that’s when things get really good.
The movie also has plenty of the raunchy humour and extreme profanity that the Deadpool movies are known for, This is actually the first R rated movie in the MCU. I don’t enjoy this aspect of it, but some people will find it funny.
Any negative aspects are outweighed by the epic story, the incredible special effects, the extreme fight scenes, the moving character development, and the sweeping storyline that is Deadpool and Wolverine.
So not being a Deadpool fan, I thoroughly enjoyed Deadpool and Wolverine.
