Continuing my many-years legacy of only watching MCU movies in the theater, I headed out to the local cinema to watch Deadpool & Wolverine with my brother the other day. My most recent theater trips were to see Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 and The Marvels, both of which were fine, but a continuation of the downward trend that Marvel movies have had of late.
This... was not that.
Deadpool & Wolverine is the first officially MCU "canon" movie in the franchise, although without getting into the specifics of the storyline, it's a little bit debatable how much the story actually interacts with the MCU. Still, it's under the Marvel umbrella, and Deadpool's fourth-wall-breaking humor plays on that fact extennnnnsively throughout the film. Every scene is punctuated by clever asides and quips, and the movie delivers on its title and promise, giving the audience a great deal of interplay between the titular characters.
In predictable fashion, it's incredibly violent, terribly vulgar, and somewhat sexual, keeping the faith with previous Deadpool movies. The cameos are almost all executed flawlessly, and even the ones that didn't hit perfectly were still fun to see. And without spoiling the deets, you've absolutely got to watch the end-credits scene. For pure entertainment value, there might not be a better one in the history of the MCU.
"Will this movie save the MCU?"
I don't know if it can do all that, but I will say this: Deadpool & Wolverine is a blueprint on what to do with other movies. The next Doctor Strange movie should be a Doctor Strange movie, with mysticism, sorcery, and Steven Strange's pompous, witty self. The next Shang-Chi movie should have incredible fight scenes, moments of hilarity, and those Ten Rings should continue to be some of the coolest artifacts in the Marvel universe. The new Blade movie should be dark and bloody and gothic, with over the top violence. Somewhere in the course of Wakanda Forever and Thor: Love & Thunder, the movies got distracted somehow, and forgot the only really thing that matters: you gotta make a good movie. Deadpool & Wolverine is a good movie, first and foremost. If you get back to making good movies, the "greater story progression" becomes less important.
Anyways, we'll see what happens. I'm looking forward to Captain America: Brave New World, and the rest of the upcoming calendar. Capture this momentum please!
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