{"id":251562,"date":"2024-08-06T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T08:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/movies-deadpool-wolverine-review-straight-out-of-2003\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:13:05","slug":"movies-deadpool-wolverine-review-straight-out-of-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/movies-deadpool-wolverine-review-straight-out-of-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIES: Deadpool & Wolverine – Review: Straight Out of 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deadpool & Wolverine<\/i> is like your friend that peaked at high school \u2013 the humour, the frat bro homophobic jokes are a comparison to the sort that your friend still obsessed with The Office<\/i> adores. It\u2019s Deadpool\u2019s humour to a t, the trying-too-hard to be witty self-aware but without the heart or the soul of David Leitch\u2019s Deadpool 2<\/i> a flawed but fun affair that had least had entertaining action sequences and a storyline that wasn\u2019t bogged down in favour of being a glorified MCU clip show. Right from the start, jokes are made about it, but just because a film is aware to make jokes about it doesn\u2019t give it a pass \u2013 it riffs off more things than Rebel Moon<\/i> and expects a pass because it has Deadpool state that he\u2019s in Mad Max and make a few quips about Furiosa. What\u2019s more, the jokes aren\u2019t funny \u2013 for a comedy, I didn\u2019t laugh once. That\u2019s not a good sign \u2013 except neither did anyone in my audience. I was not alone. And what\u2019s more all this film does with these imitations from a director who barely has any craft or care of his own, sharing pirated videos of his own film on twitter on opening weekend as part of a spoiler-flooded salvo, fails to best anything that he\u2019s poking fun at. For all the self-awareness of Shawn Levy to congratulatory use Deadpool to claim that the MCU is back now, his entries aren\u2019t as strong as other films in the bloated, tired multiverse saga \u2013 if anything, it\u2019s worse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\nThe film brings back Hugh Jackman\u2019s Wolverine and it\u2019s a credit to Jackman that he\u2019s capable of playing the straight bad cop to Deadpool\u2019s merc-with-a-mouth. It\u2019s part of Reynolds\u2019 insufferable, boyish charisma to poke fun, but he doesn\u2019t have the acting ability to make the heavier scenes work, robbing Deadpool & Wolverine<\/i> of its heart and soul. It\u2019s almost unfair to pair him up against someone as good as Hugh Jackman and the problem of Reynolds becomes so apparent by the fact that the two best scenes of the movie don\u2019t involve Deadpool at all, in what predominantly, is still his own movie \u2013 and no matter how much the film sets out to tell you that it\u2019s not ruining Logan<\/i>\u2019s legacy, it somehow makes Jackman\u2019s supporting role cheaper and the ending bittersweet. The best scenes of the movie despite this are the scenes where a different Wolverine to the one in Logan is forced to reckon with his past, and a scene with Dafne Keen\u2019s X-23 is welcome \u2013 acting more of an epilogue and less of a sequel. The \u201cthird act flashback\u201d to the different Wolverine\u2019s past feels like it reminds you occasionally that there is a good movie in here, if it just got rid of its lead character and became an X-Men film instead. <\/p>\n

Its Deadpool & Wolverine<\/i>\u2019s biggest problem that its strengths are when anybody but Deadpool is on screen \u2013 the supporting cast of cameos show up in a knowing love-letter to the FOX universe, with even a surprise appearance from Channing Tatum\u2019s Gambit \u2013 instantly delightful, happy to be here, often rumoured but never happened, and Elektra and Blade in addition to Chris Evans\u2019 Johnny Storm, as all Chris Evans does is show up in cameos in Ryan Reynolds projects. It feels like it should be a love letter to not just the X-Men universe but instead the world of Fox, but feels like it does nothing more with these characters other than to bring them back because they\u2019re there. Gimmicks everywhere you look, and I preferred the execution of the multiverse in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness<\/i> over this glorified cameo-fest that mistakes multiverse for cameos and feels like far too much of a clip-show, something that you\u2019d expect from the twenty third season of The Simpsons<\/i>, not a major blockbuster. Exposition galore and poor dialogue is back-ended by poorly lit, poorly choreographed action sequences that lack the intensity of David Leitch\u2019s Deadpool 2<\/i>; paying homage to Oldboy<\/i> without any of the creative flair, and feel like they don\u2019t have the same weight \u2013 the sequel remains the strongest entry in the franchise.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\nCassandra Nova is a worthy antagonist and one of the most memorable that Marvel have had since Thanos, thanks in no small part due to the excellent performance by Emma Corrin, who holds the whole movie together having the most fun they\u2019ve had in ages as Charles Xavier\u2019s long-lost sister. It\u2019s where the film dares to take off and dares to have a bit of fun, because otherwise, the whole thing just feels so hamstrung by its need to try to have fun that it never actually remembers to have fun in the process – there have been movies out this year that I’ve enjoyed watching more than this, for all the cries of “you don’t know how to have fun?” – this is boring even for a Marvel film, a chore with no stakes and no heart, spending half the time with an exposition-laden script and jokes that were past their sell-by date in 2003. Will >Deadpool & Wolverine<\/i> save the MCU? No – instead, it’s on life support. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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