Deadpool and Wolverine Review
Marvel has taken a step back in the amount of content they have produced for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), but Deadpool and Wolverine was three steps forward into making more content. It has been a highly anticipated movie for many, and it delivered a lot.
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Deadpool, played by Ryan Reynolds, has to get his hero on as his world is ending. After escaping the Time Variance Authority, Deadpool calls on some help and he finds the “worst” Wolverine who is played by the legendary Hugh Jackman. Together, they joke, have heartfelt conversations, and they are a part of awesome fight scenes.
Speaking of fight scenes, they were awesome. It felt like the action was taken up a notch compared to any other MCU movie, yes, even Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It had great fight choreography, which is a must in a Deadpool movie, it had some comedic elements at times, and it felt like it meant more to Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds.
Next up: the comedy. With this movie being rated R, it got away with so much. It felt like there was a joke every other line. It poked fun at the current state of the MCU and Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s personal lives via breaking the fourth wall. It felt like so many of the jokes landed, not only with myself, but with everyone else in the theater I was in. People were laughing and clapping and it truly felt like a movie expirence because of that. It brought life to the theaters that has been missing for so long.
Here’s your warning: there will be spoilers from here on out. There were a ton of cameos and callbacks to so many different movies. The main ones were X-23 from Logan, Elektra from the movie of the same name, Blade also from his own movie and a surprise to be sure, Channing Tatum as Gambit. Most of these characters were first shown off on the big screen during the early 2000s when 20th Century Fox had quite the hold on the superhero market. Gambit is the main exception to that because his movie was tragically never made. Channing Tatum was so heartbroken in fact that he never played another superhero because of it.
Sometimes a crowd pleaser is what you need. Many people will have grown up watching the Blade movies or Elektra, so it’s always nice when an actor is willing to come back and play a role like that. The main thing that worries me about things like this is that it doesn’t always age well. Look at Spider-Man: No Way Home for example. It was a movie that was fairly universally loved because of the crowd pleasing moments, but to me, it got old and unenjoyable. The flaws showed when it wasn’t in a theater and the quality of the movie was truly shown.
I talked so much about the positives, but now it’s time for the not so fun part: the negatives. The production value was very mediocre in this movie. While the costumes looked good for the most part, there were some parts that didn’t look as good. It especially did not look good when it came to Wolverine’s mask. It looked very much like bad CGI, and this wasn’t the only instance. A lot of the background scenery looked very fake and not there at all.
Also the villains were underwhelming in this movie. There were two of them which usually does not work well. Both villains were very under developed and their motivations were not clear. It made it hard to get behind them, to even see their sides, but this wasn’t a villain-centered movie. It was a movie that was supposed to focus on legacy characters the way only a Deadpool movie can.
Even though Deadpool and Wolverine had lackluster villains and somewhat lackluster CGI, it is a crowd pleaser. There’s tons of laughs, great action, and a really good theater expirence. I would definitely recommend that if you’re an X-Men fan or an MCU fan that you should go see this movie. All in all, this movie gets a 93/100.
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