Deadpool & Wolverine Review!

Deadpool & Wolverine is a fun movie! The last Deadpool movie, Deadpool 2 (2018), was six years ago, but enthusiasm for the Merc with the Mouth has not faded. His entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally united him with the mutant who had “retired” the year before in Logan (2017). The bonding agent is director Shawn Levy who directed Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project (2022) and Hugh Jackman in Real Steel (2011). Reynolds and Levy are part of the writing team including Rheet Rees and Paul Wernick, co-writers for Deadpool 2, and Zeb Wells, who wrote “The Retreat” (2022) episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Spoilers have dropped all over social media, but this review will avoid the cameos even though a majority might know them now. Brilliant and fun work by the actors in the secret roles.  

Deadpool (Reynolds) hums along with the Marvel Studios logo. We get snow falling as Deadpool brings up Disney buying Fox! There is Wolverine’s grave from Logan in North Dakota. Deadpool is there digging up Wolverine’s body. He also has an “I Live Me heart emoji” mug. Deadpool says, “He ain’t dead”, but then slams his shovel at finding the admantium skeleton. Time doors open and brings in the Minutemen who were in the Loki show. They are from the Time Variance Authority that deal with disruptions to the time line. He is faced with the Minuteman Leader (Leemore Marrett Jr). Deadpool promises not to use his weapons and instead uses Wolverine’s bones to NSYC’s “Bye Bye Bye”! The credits are shown on the bones in slo mo! He also uses Wolverine’s claws to lethal and painful effect. Silly and violent. 

We get a flashback to get viewers up to date with the first two Deadpool films via Cable’s time travel device. Then, we get the setting, March 14, 2018 seen in a clock, on Earth-616, the Sacred Timeline. This is about two months before the events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018). The timeline that the TVA is trying to maintain. Wade Wilson, without the Deadpool mask and in a suit, is meeting with Happy Hogan (Jon Faveau). A formal introduction into the MCU. Around the office are various Iron Man helmets and a prototype Captain America shield. Wade says he was in special forces and team leader of X-Force. He finally admits, “I wanna be an Avenger.” Foggy tells him that the team didn’t want to be Avengers, the world needed the Avengers, he says, “find your place.” This is the basic arc for Deadpool to be important to the world or at least his world. 

He returns back to Earth-10005, “six years later”, selling pre-owned vehicles at Drive Max. I don’t know if he is a top salesman with his scarred face, the family he is showing a mini-van to test drive don’t seem to mind. His co-worker is Peter (Rob Delaney) whom he saved from the ill-fated X-Force. His Deadpool costume is in Peter’s work locker. Peter says he is going through a mid-life crisis. They bike back to Wade’s apartment. Across the street, construction workers secretly are photographing Wade. A surprise birthday party is thrown fo him with his friends, besides Peter, there is Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), who is now his ex-girlfriend after he had saved her in Deadpool 2. There is also his roommate, Blind Al (Leslie Uggams). The X-Men allies include Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), with her girlfriend, the always happy Yukio (Shioli Kutsuna), and the “organic steel” Colossus (Stefan Kapicic). 

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