Deadpool and Wolverine | The Mouse comes for the Merc with a Mouth (Non-spoiler reviews)

The film starts off strong with a deliciously fun and subversive intro which gives the impression the rest of the film will be a no holds bar action romp which pisses in the cornflakes of the MCU and its self import drama. Sadly the next 20 minutes of solid exposition show that Deadpool has been fully MCUified . Don't worry there is plenty of gore, cursing, and s*x jokes to go around but one gets the distinct feeling Wade Wilson has taken the mantle of the mouse. From the fawning over the Avengers and main MCU timeline to the sappy ending everything feels very brand safe. Still there continue to be highlights: many of the jokes land and those that don't are sold by Ryan Reynolds love of the material, Hugh Jackman really seems to have regained a love for the character after some anemic performances in the later X-men movies, and the fight scenes continue to be well choreographed with a nice mix of cool and funny. Ultimately the movie ends up bogged down by its weaknesses with an insistence on long talking scenes, traditional sappy heroics over the action people actually watch these movies for, and a terrible villain.

I really think we've reached the tail end of the MCU's relevance as Disney begins drawing on nostalgia for the 2000s non-disney produced Marvel movies, movies which were formally dismissed as pure trash (minus X-men and Rami Spider-Man) compared to the MCU. When a certain string of cameos plays out they are all in slow motion, silent, and take way too long as if they expect audiences to be hootin and hollarin during the reveal yet the packed IMAX theater was totally silent despite audiences frequently laughing out loud at the jokes. Perhaps even more embarrassing is the fight featuring these cameo characters which is shockingly bad in comparison to every other fight in the movie. It looks more in line with generic trash like Ant-Man then a dead pool movie. When the credits featured a montage of X-men clips and production footage set to Green Day's Time of your Life it was arguably the most emotional part of the film, but it also made me question if this film had earned it. Most of the cameos could easily be replaced by other random characters and not effect anything, and all the montage seemed to do was remind me how much cooler and sexier the x-men looked in comparison to the MCU.

Total score: 2.5/5

The movie is very gay and basically slash fic between the two male leads