STARRING: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delany, Leslie Uggams, Aaron Stanford, Matthew Macfadyen, and more Cameos than you could shake a stick at, with some that are downright delightful. Written by Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells and Shawn Levy. Directed by Shawn Levy. Budget $200 million. Running time 128 minutes.
The third Deadpool movie in the series crash lands into a market that seems to have lost its love for the superhero genre after a string of truly shit superhero films that tanked, bombed, crashed or 'failed to perform at the box-office' to use Hollywood parlance. Those turkeys include the likes of, for Marvel,: The Marvels, Madame Web, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Gaurdians of the Galaxy Vol 3; while DC showed up to the party with five bottles of absolute shit, which included: Shazam! Furry Gods, The Flash, Blue Beetle and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
The end result of such dreck is that both studios have seriously put the brakes on their respective output, to such an extent that Marvel only have two more 'product' to push out this year, both of which are Sony Studio offerings, Kraven the Hunter and Venom: The Last Dance, and DC only has one, Joker: Folie à Deux.
So, enough waffle what of Deadpool & Wolverine?
Well it's 2 hours and eight minutes long and features two end-credit bonuses, one at the beginning and one at the very, very end, before the screen lights come up which might be worth your while depending on how much you've enjoyed the preceding 128 minutes.
The plot, sees Wade Wilson, now retired from being Deadpool trying to live a normal life selling cars and celebrating his birthday with his nine closest friends when agents from the Time Variance Authority arrive to arrest him for his past crimes against the Sacred Time Line. He is subsequently given almost god-like powers by TVA boss Paradox, Matthew Macfadyen, to help him destroy the Time Line. Instead Deadpool steals a Macguffin device, to travel the time line in search of a Wolverine to help him save his own time line. However when both 'heroes' are marooned in the Void they must find a way to get back to their own world before it's destroyed.
What follows is a relentless chase across multiverses, and time-lines and features so many cameos it's almost impossible to name them all. Packed with in-jokes, visual nods, and Easter-Eggs galore, and copious amount of profanity to such an extent you'll find yourself tutting at the overuse of the word, 'fuck', oh and the constant fourth-wall breaking that becomes deeply monotonous. In fact it's all in danger of sinking this Blockbuster completely, so thank the gods for Hugh Jackman and Emma Corrin, Jackman's Wolverine is the backbone of this film and his presence elevates this film greatly, despite Deadpool's constant attempts to derail proceedings with his incessant prattling. And Emma Corrin is just outstanding bringing real malevolence to her role and offering us the best villain since Thanos, but sadly there's just not enough of her and her incredibly long fingers.
And then there's the violence, which to say is excessive would be an understatement, it's non-stop, brutal and utterly relentless, scene after scene of consequence-free stabbing of victims with knives, swords, thigh bones, leaving spouting cgi blood to magically disappear into the sky, luckily the humour is on hand to undercut the whole thing.
It's a film made for die-hard fans, there are cameos that will have the comics fan in the audience howling in delightful glee. There's a great sequence where Deadpool, while time hopping, comes across a veritable who's who of alternative Wolverines which is possibly the high-light of the movie, the trouble is that because the whole thing is played as just one very long in-joke and laugh riot, it renders any meaningful story redundant. Plus the running time is far too long for a comedy and after two hours of this I was left weary and very nearly bored.
If you're not a fan of Ryan Reynolds then this might not be your cup of tea, because here he dials it up to 11 and he's in almost every single scene, sometimes acting opposite himself.
Overall, I was left bemused but not enthralled. There was just too much of everything and it left me a little flat. It's like being screamed at two hours by two hyperactive 9 year-olds ripped to the tits on sugar and Ritalin while you're force-feed boxes of sugar enriched, corn syrup saturated caramel popcorn by the fistful, by the end of it, you feel a little nauseous, deaf and bewildered and you'll want to watch something to cut through all the relentlessness and mayhem, something like Zone of Interest.
In a nutshell, it was too fun, too loud, too long, and too, too much.
7/10
The plot, sees Wade Wilson, now retired from being Deadpool trying to live a normal life selling cars and celebrating his birthday with his nine closest friends when agents from the Time Variance Authority arrive to arrest him for his past crimes against the Sacred Time Line. He is subsequently given almost god-like powers by TVA boss Paradox, Matthew Macfadyen, to help him destroy the Time Line. Instead Deadpool steals a Macguffin device, to travel the time line in search of a Wolverine to help him save his own time line. However when both 'heroes' are marooned in the Void they must find a way to get back to their own world before it's destroyed.
What follows is a relentless chase across multiverses, and time-lines and features so many cameos it's almost impossible to name them all. Packed with in-jokes, visual nods, and Easter-Eggs galore, and copious amount of profanity to such an extent you'll find yourself tutting at the overuse of the word, 'fuck', oh and the constant fourth-wall breaking that becomes deeply monotonous. In fact it's all in danger of sinking this Blockbuster completely, so thank the gods for Hugh Jackman and Emma Corrin, Jackman's Wolverine is the backbone of this film and his presence elevates this film greatly, despite Deadpool's constant attempts to derail proceedings with his incessant prattling. And Emma Corrin is just outstanding bringing real malevolence to her role and offering us the best villain since Thanos, but sadly there's just not enough of her and her incredibly long fingers.
And then there's the violence, which to say is excessive would be an understatement, it's non-stop, brutal and utterly relentless, scene after scene of consequence-free stabbing of victims with knives, swords, thigh bones, leaving spouting cgi blood to magically disappear into the sky, luckily the humour is on hand to undercut the whole thing.
It's a film made for die-hard fans, there are cameos that will have the comics fan in the audience howling in delightful glee. There's a great sequence where Deadpool, while time hopping, comes across a veritable who's who of alternative Wolverines which is possibly the high-light of the movie, the trouble is that because the whole thing is played as just one very long in-joke and laugh riot, it renders any meaningful story redundant. Plus the running time is far too long for a comedy and after two hours of this I was left weary and very nearly bored.
If you're not a fan of Ryan Reynolds then this might not be your cup of tea, because here he dials it up to 11 and he's in almost every single scene, sometimes acting opposite himself.
Overall, I was left bemused but not enthralled. There was just too much of everything and it left me a little flat. It's like being screamed at two hours by two hyperactive 9 year-olds ripped to the tits on sugar and Ritalin while you're force-feed boxes of sugar enriched, corn syrup saturated caramel popcorn by the fistful, by the end of it, you feel a little nauseous, deaf and bewildered and you'll want to watch something to cut through all the relentlessness and mayhem, something like Zone of Interest.
In a nutshell, it was too fun, too loud, too long, and too, too much.
7/10
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