Deadpool & Wolverine Review: Ryan Reynolds & Hugh Jackman say ‘let's save MCU’ quite literally

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Deadpool & Wolverine Review: Plot - He is Marvel Jesus, and the other is literally nailed on the cross. Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) is pulled into TVA by an authority I shouldn't name because of spoilers. His world is in danger because someone is missing, and they are the anchor to his timeline. Now the risk is that his timeline will be shattered if he doesn't find a Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to join him to save it (I can't tell you why Wolverine). They join forces as they travel through timelines and the End Of The World (finally called the Void) to save their loved ones and find their redemption.

Deadpool & Wolverine Review: Analysis -

You have been waiting for this day for the last half-decade. Countless rumors, pointless speculations, and several actors misguiding us later, we are buying that ticket and surrendering ourselves to the magic of the multiverse and Deadpool; as Hugh Jackman’s veiny biceps. These guys, with all their glory, abs, and butt cheeks, are making their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut after leaving the 20th Century Fox universe behind. Ryan Reynolds literally breaks the fourth wall to say, “F*ck You Fox, I am going to Disneyland.” Lines that make it clear that this is a movie made for the fans. Whether it connects itself to the grand scheme of things (cough cough Avengers 5 and X-Men) or not is the least of their concerns. Right now, they only care about bringing audiences to the theaters. Because we all know where the MCU stands at this point.

So, there is a movie made solely for fan worship with their favorite fourth-wall-breaking superhero entering their beloved universe alongside the man who had knives for fingers, that too made of adamantium. It all seems like a movie made of dreams; but also, a rogue brat is dreaming in this case. The MCU has now adopted the R-rating, and every bit of Deadpool & Wolverine defines what the R stands for. The opening of the Ryan Reynolds-led drama is him slashing people with the skeleton of a dead man. There is blood, there are brutal cuts, and the future that the editing team and camera team decided to set in the butt of Wade Wilson fame (you will know when the camera moves). So there is no two ways about the fact that Deadpool & Wolverine thrive on and for the shock value. But in a very interesting way.

Written by Ryan Reynolds (yes, he gets the credit), Shawn Levy, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Zeb Wells, from the characters created by Rob Liefeld, with Fabian Nicieza, and directed by Shawn Levy, Deadpool & Wolverine is a movie that treks on a mountain of expectations. It has the responsibility to bring me the mutants in a world that has been obsessed with its Avengers because, at one point, Cassandra Nova calls Doctor Strange a weird magician. So, at this point, not everyone is aware of everybody’s existence.

Shawn Levy takes the clever route to shape a movie that is separate from the world of Avengers because he is aware that it clutters already cluttered movies. The approach is to have the mutants introduced to this world, and that works. The very visible inconvenience that the writing causes is overshadowed by the fact that the loyal MCU fanbase has never seen or heard about these characters here. So the fascination to know them is at its all-time high.

And that is how Deadpool & Wolverine prevails and manages to hide the chinks in the armor pretty well. But what is my job if I don't notice some of them? But about them later. The humor in the film is top-notch because they aren't sparing any single thing. In the fourth wall break, Ryan talks to us in a Deadpool costume. But Levy has now made a career out of making this all work organically, and he does it well again. The cameos are the heart of Deadpool & Wolverine, but thanks to the scoopers, a lot has been spoiled already. But nevertheless, when they land, you are excited because it all feels like a payoff. However, one cameo you are not prepared for at all, and yeah, also the character they play.

Deadpool & Wolverine mainly give redemption arcs to the two pivotal men in a way where one finds family and accepts his X-Men status. The other finds a purpose and wants to be an Avenger. It is a good twist because they both have been running from tags forever. However, it never develops into an emotional saga because the screenplay never wants you to stay with it enough. There is an urgency that is written over the entire narrative that wants these superheroes dripping blood to be at the next station, and that does impact the magic this story intends to create.

What also takes away from the magic is Marvel Cinematic Universe’s lethargy to create villains that are consequential and not ready to die a death at the hands of a screenplay that wants them off it. Cassandra Nova suffers the same fate as Gorr or Dar-Ben. She is nothing more than a trigger point for the two superheroes to move forward. She is the villain of this story that has been pending for half a decade. She is the sister to Charles Xavier, aka Professor X. There is so much weightage to her even before she has entered the screen that a half-hearted plot for her cannot really justify.

At the heart of it, Deadpool & Wolverine is clearly a movie that was ordered by Kevin with the lines, “This better bring the moolah or we are screwed.” There is an insane use of brilliant CGI. A nod at how The Fantastic Four universe may look. But it also feels like it is too calculated and it shouldn't be visible. The post-credit scene is as pointless as the ‘Alcohol Consumption Is Injurious To Health’ warning (CBFC please get rid of that). Are we still talking about how good the CGI and everything technical is? It's been close to two decades they are at it; they know they are geniuses.

Deadpool & Wolverine Review: Final Verdict

Deadpool & Wolverine has fan service written all over it. It also lands well if you look at the studio’s desperation to have one pop-culturally charged hit with glamorous men and women playing mutants. Hugh Jackman’s shirt came off, and the hall collectively gasped (count the writer in too). Maybe that was the intent; an audience, a lot of surprises for them, and an assurance that we are alive.