Deadpool & Wolverine
Yet another live-action Marvel multiverse movie, but at least this one doesn't take itself too seriously.
MOVIES
p - Deadpool & Wolverine plot summary: 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. (IMDb)
- Before watching Deadpool & Wolverine, I wondered if I would end up viewing it like Spider-Man: No Way Home, as a bit of a mess stopping it from reaching greatness.
- Strangely, and somewhat fittingly for Deadpool, it's not as much of a mess as No Way Home and neither is it as good.
- The story is very simple (that summary above really is it in the end), which helps things, but also means you shouldn't expect too much.
- This movie is little more than an excuse to team up Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds and have them fight each other and just about everyone else in sight.
- It's funny that people thought Marvel Studios would tame down the Deadpool movies when they got control, but there's a lot of blood here, and a lot of swearing too.
- Fortunately, the non-joking dialogue is well-written enough that the cursing doesn't feel as forced as it did on occasion in Logan and the other Deadpool movies.
- Unfortunately, the jokes are a bit hit and miss, especially as Deadpool has almost fully-turned from breaking the fourth wall to speak to the audience to constant meta-commentary instead.
- Swinging back towards the positive, at least Jackman is there to inject some real quality when it comes to the performances.
- One furious tirade against Deadpool and whenever he has to talk about what happened on his world are the acting highlights of the movie and remind you why you care about Wolverine in the first place.
- Saying that, Emma Corrin is excellent as Cassandra Nova and I would love to see Corrin return in the future as another version of the same character in the future.
- Credit in part has to go to the VFX guys for how well they depicted Nova's tendency to shove her hands through people's heads and poke her fingers out from wherever she pleased, which is genuinely creepy at times.
- As for Deadpool himself? It feels like Reynolds has hit a comfort zone with the character which is enjoyable enough to watch, but doesn't feel as interesting as it used to.
- I genuinely think Deadpool could do with his own Thor: Ragnarok, but in the other direction, giving him a deathly serious story and give Reynolds a chance to bring something new to the character.
- Regarding the multiverse aspect of this movie, it's more of a chance to say goodbye to a lot of the 20th Century Fox versions of various Marvel characters than anything else.
- While it is fun to see a lot of actors and characters from the Fox movies return (including one MCU stalwart in particular), it really does strengthen the feeling that this movie is pretty lacking in substance.
- To be fair, I don't think it's trying to have substance with how much fun it's having just mashing characters up against each other.
- Much like The Marvels, this is a light and enjoyable film that you can just have on whenever and know you're not missing much if something distracts you from it.
- Deadpool & Wolverine definitely feels like it was made 'for the fans' and I think it completely succeeds in setting out what it was meant to do, but I just wish it could've at least tried to aim a little higher. [7/10]
GAMES
- I bought Dragon Age: The Veilguard, I downloaded it, I started it up, it crashed repeatedly in the character creator, I refunded it.
- So I moved on to another title on my Wishlist in 1000xRESIST and that has proven time and money well spent so far, with a truly gripping story that doesn't hold your hand at all.
- I've also played a bit of Shenmue on PC and, while it doesn't look good as the nostalgia of memory hoped it would, I've still been pleasantly surprised just how much I remember from the Dreamcast version.
- My latest playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 is also proceeding very nicely, thank you for asking.
TV
- I've finished going through all the Top Gear challenges and specials I wanted to, enjoyed them all a lot and won't be reviewing a single one, but they're still fun.
- What I'll actually be finishing next will be the animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which I was getting bored of when I stopped.
- Fortunately, most of the episodes since picking it back up again have been good or better, and I have about a season and a half left of the whole thing, so I'll be writing about the series as a whole fairly soon.
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