Movie Review: Deadpool & Wolverine

 Movie Number 27 of 2024

The Movie: Deadpool & Wolverine

The Cinema: Hoyts Victoria Gardens

Stars: 3.5

This film is for two sorts of people. Those who are into their Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Comics, and those who like movies where things blow up and the humour is just a bit wrong. Oh, and there is a killer soundtrack. 

If you're up on your comic book lore and have a love of the goriness that is Deadpool, you'll be fine. And like all other Deadpool movies, the humour is fifty shades of wrong. In this you have both Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman playing off each other. It's fun. And Hugh Jackman's torso is something to be admired. 

And yes, this movie delivers on the action and the spit take humour, but if you had no idea about the world of Deadpool and Marvel and Wolverine, you'd be scratching your head.

Don't ask me about the plot. According to RottenTomatoes.com, it goes along the lines of "Deadpool's peaceful existence comes crashing down when the Time Variance Authority recruits him to help safeguard the multiverse. He soon unites with his would-be pal, Wolverine, to complete the mission and save his world from an existential threat."

Doesn't mean much to you? Well, with all the bloody violence and spit takes, does it matter? 

Of the things I really liked:

• When they went into The Void, they met up with all these defunct superheroes - Elektra (Jennifer Garner, Blade (Wesley Snipes), Johnny Storm (Chris Evans) and this strange, never seen before character called Gambit (Channing Tatum at his dorky best).
• The violence was the sort that I can tolerate easily, as I've found all Deadpool movies. It's silly and stylised. 
• It's great seeing some English actors in the film. Matthew Macfadyen and Emma Corrin were very good - and fun in this. 
• And the soundtrack is a killer. 

I won't say too much more than this. I think I might have enjoyed this a little more if I had gone with some friends to laugh along with. Mind you, I really liked the spit take factor in this film. it's very inappropriate in places - and you have to love it for that. 

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