“Deadpool & Wolverine” Movie Review by Rafy Mediavilla (@Rmediavilla)
Deadpool is offered a place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by the Time Variance Authority, but instead recruits a variant of Wolverine to save his universe from extinction. Wolverine is recovering from his injuries when he crosses paths with the loudmouth, Deadpool. They team up to defeat a common enemy.
What worked:
The action scenes, the gore, the choreography, the comedy, and the emotional moments, there is a balance between the hesitation they had with the current status of the MCU and the drama of the story between the characters.
The cameos were something else, but at the same time I understand that this generation is not going to enjoy them in the same way as past generations. Its story is mostly a nostalgic trip that pays tribute to the 20th Century Fox MCU, and specifically the X-Men.
The soundtrack is chock full of 80s and 90s songs that are bangers, where they invite you to sing along and give a unique tone to the scenes. It truly takes me back to my days when all I watched on TV was MTV, and VH1.
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s performances worked, and the chemistry was seen throughout, but admittedly Hugh Jackman on many occasions overshadowed Ryan Reynolds, and dare I say it was intentional, the script was designed to make Hugh Jackman look better.
What did not work:
His story is all over the place, in the sense that we’re counting 3 MCU arcs unfolding in one project. There’s the Deadpool movie, Wolverine and continuing to build the Multiverse of the MCU. But in the end it didn’t do much of a “course correction” to give the MCU a more defined north.
Cassandra Nova’s villain played by actress Emma Corrin for me didn’t work simply because at one point we saw a shift in the story where it was being that she started to play in favor of our main heroes, and out of nowhere she changed her mind again, and kind of these changes in her arc felt forced. She never felt like a relevant threat to our titular superheroes. What about the secondary villain Mr. Paradox played by actor Matthew Macfadey, if he can be considered a villain as was his arc development? He suffered from the same evil.
There is a specific battle where there is a spurt of Deadpools that in my opinion was pure fan service, really if you take it away it doesn’t make up much. If you didn’t see the Loki series on Disney+ you may be a bit lost between a specific timeline theme they touch on in the story, and some of their characters.
In conculsion:
