Review: “Deadpool & Wolverine”★★★
The film, which brings together Ryan Reynolds' wise-cracking, loud-mouthed Deadpool and Hugh Jackman's ferocious Wolverine, fulfills the wishes of fans eager for this long-awaited movie to exist.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” is an action-packed and entertaining Marvel movie, but one that relies too heavily on cameos and hero moments which could be better executed.
When I walked out of the theater, my immediate thought was that “Deadpool & Wolverine” felt like “Fanservice: The Movie.”
If you've spent the last seven years desperately waiting to see the return of Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with the Mouth, spewing lewd remarks and foul dialogue every other second and blasting bad guys with his arsenal of weapons, you'll be well served here. Alongside Hugh Jackman (who remains an excellent Wolverine), the film makes for a fun buddy comedy in which the two leads are more than willing to tear each other apart when one of them strikes a chord.
The Deadpool character has always been, and remains, meta. He's all about winking at the audience and breaking the fourth wall. There's also his damaged face, which he once described as "pepperoni flatbread," his unpronounceable language, and his self-healing powers, but mostly he's all about winking at the camera.
Already paired in a series of Marvel comics, Deadpool (Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) form an entertaining, albeit explosive, cinematic couple. They have a lot in common: both are self-healing, both have authority issues, both have monster-sized substance abuse issues. But their differences - knives, stabbings and punches in hand-to-hand combat in the back of a Honda minivan - are what give the film play. And por jugo I refer to the blood; with gore and risqué gags, the film earns until the last month of its 15 certificate.
Speaking of spoilers, the film is full of some welcome cameos that Disney has done an exceptional job of hiding. I won't spoil them, but I will reiterate that when the TVA sends our heroes to the Void, they end up in a world of useless things. Even cameos are cool in the superhero industry. When I saw them, I wondered if I was reacting to the real performances and incidents on screen - which are, in general, totally indifferent - or if I was just responding to the surprise of seeing them. In other words, is it the film or the marketing? For better or for worse, we live in a world where that question has ceased to matter. Deadpool would probably have a joke about it. Oh wait, he has it. It's this movie.
