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I’ve been a fan of Deadpool since he first appeared in comics back in 1991, as how can you not like a guy that looks like Spider-Man crossed with a ninja? So needless to say I love everything he’s in, and when the Deadpool films came along, I was in movie heaven. Now we’ve come to the third entry of the “merc with a mouth” in Deadpool & Wolverine, which takes it’s hard R rating and pacing all over the place, but it’s still the summer blockbuster fans and movie lovers have been waiting for.
via YouTubeDirected by Shawn Levy who teamed with Ryan Reynolds for the wacky comedy Free Guy, things kick off with Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) trying to join famous superhero teams after the events in Deadpool 2 and gets turned down, leading him to give up hope of ever being a real superhero in the famed Marvel Cinematic Universe and instead take up being a car salesman.
Despite this, he loves his life with the friends he’s made from the first two Deadpool films, and is trying to get back with the love of his life, Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) after she leaves him for giving up on his dreams. After throwing Wade a birthday party, the Time Variance Authority or TVA comes rudely knocking at Wade’s door and takes him away to their headquarters.
Here he learns from one of the TVA’s higher-ups named Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen) that Wade’s timeline is slowly erasing since Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) sacrificed himself at the end of the famed Logan film and that he was the one holding that timeline together.
So after grabbing a new Deadpool costume and weapons from the TVA, he takes it upon himself to travel between the multiverse to find the perfect variant of Logan to bring back to his timeline to hopefully stop it from erasing and losing his family of friends.
Naturally this doesn’t go well as the Logan he finds after numerous and funny variations, doesn’t care about Deadpool or his friends and just wants to be left alone and go back to his timeline. This eventually leads to numerous epic fights between the two as they learn they’ll have to put their differences aside if they want to save Wade’s friends and get Logan back to his time by heading to a wasteland called the Void that’s ruled by the powerful mutant Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin).
From here the movie becomes an off-the-rails roller coaster ride of violence and zany comedy that fans of the comic book character (like myself) have come to love. While I do love the fact Disney signed off on the R rating and letting the characters curse/swear as much as they wanted, I’m not a fan on how they abused it here, as the dialogue feels like it was written by an angry kid at times that can’t go two seconds without swearing.
And I’m a huge fan of the ton of cameos in the film, but sometimes they end up getting in the way of the plot and pacing, as though they tried a little too hard to squeeze in as many surprise Easter eggs as they could. I will say it was cool seeing some classic X-Men villains return such as Aaron Stanford reprising his Pyro role from X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tyler Mane from 2000’s X-Men returning to play Sabretooth was a really nice touch.
Despite the excessive swearing and scattered pacing, I loved the time I spent with Deadpool & Wolverine. It has all the key elements fans could want such as tons of action and comedy, with some surprising and touching drama tossed in as well. So is this a great movie? Not really. But is it a fun, summer blockbuster joyride that we need right now? Heck yeah!