A Review of Deadpool & Wolverine: Best Friends For Never
Deadpool & Wolverine hittin’ the streets like whoa.
There comes a time in a man's life when he can finally see his favorite bloodletting heroes on the big screen. It was a movie we all wanted badly. The third Deadpool film and the millionth Wolverine film. Together their powers combine to make Deadpool & Wolverine. It's like the Wonder Twins but bloody, and it’s a Marvel film.
At this point, the whole world is familiar with both the X-Man and the Merc With a Mouth, but this movie wanted to celebrate everything that came before. To succeed here, they did what many multiverse movies have tried and failed to do. They made a great, cameo-filled film. Deadpool & Wolverine celebrates the past non-Marvel Marvel films as much as it pushes the Marvel continuity forward.
What's Deadpool & Wolverine even about?
Deadpool aka Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) wants to matter. His relationship is failing and he thinks the only way to fix that is by traveling to Earth 616 (our world) and joining the Avengers. Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) interviews him and explains that the Avengers don't save lives to matter. They go where they're needed to save lives. Then Hogan kicks Wilson out of his office.
Before that, Deadpool murders about 50 Time Variance Authority agents with a Wolverine's dead body. The one from Logan if you're curious. It was... hilariously gruesome.
Six years after Hogan kicks Deadpool out of his office, Deadpool has given up on being a mercenary and transitioned to selling cars. It's not particularly fulfilling but he's got his boy Peter (Rob Delaney) trying to get Deadpool back out there to do murders again. He uses the word “we” a lot and keeps the Deadpool costume in his work locker. As soon as Wilson gets home he has a surprise party with all of his friends including his ex.. Blind Al (Leslie Uggams) wants cocaine but can't have any. In the middle of the party, the TVA shows up and stuffs Wade in a portal leading to their Time Variance Authority base beyond time time time time. (That’s how you type out an echo).
Wade Wilson meets Agent Paradox who tells him he wants to find special people in Deadpool’s reality and help them matter. That’s just what Wade Wilson is all about! He has the TVA sexual harassment tailor make him a brand new Deadpool costume with adamantium katanas and a slew of guns. Deadpool is back baby! Once he returns, Paradox ruins the moment by telling Wade that his Deadpool universe is about to be destroyed to protect the sacred timeline. If you've seen Loki you've heard enough about timelines. If you haven’t seen Loki this might seem new, but it’s just the destruction of other time periods in order to save one time period, Earth 616 or the Marvel Universe. Deadpool's universe has been marked for death because his Wolverine was an anchor person and died. Deadpool is like eff that, breaks Agent Paradox's nose, grabs his TVA time sliding device, and portals his way to the dead body of Logan.
Once all those TVA people are hilariously dead, Deadpool travels the multiverse to find another Wolverine to take from their universe and bring to his own to become the new anchor person. He gets adamantium clawed many many times in his Wolverine pursuit. Luckily, Deadpool can't die, but neither can Wolverine. That's the most fun part of this entire exercise.
Should we go see Deadpool & Wolverine?
More Deadpool. More Wolverine. More things to swing a stick at.
Absolutely!
I mean... we know you've been planning it. Or you saw it today before the movie launched. That's what we did. I hope I made this movie sound nuts already, but that isn't even the half of it. I really hate spoiling movies. Deadpool &Wolverine have parts where that should be explicitly avoided. I’ll just say the final boss is a twin of one of the X-men.
So if you love 20th Century Fox and all the X-Men movies they've put out since 1999 you should watch this.
If you've been a Marvel movie fan since Iron Man, you should watch this while cosplaying as Wolverine or Deadpool.
If you've ever wanted to see Deadpool and Wolverine cut the hell out of each other, you should be in a theater watching this as soon as possible.
However, if you want to know what happened to characters from other movies that have drifted to the back of your mind, movies you barely remember watching, then come to Deadpool & Wolverine and bask in the bloody magic for a couple of hours.
Come and laugh at the fourth-wall-breaking Marvel comics character and his head-busting buddy with six claws. Most people seem to have lot of love for both of these characters. I think that’s centered around them being ok with murdering people, sometimes for money and sometimes for justice. I don’t like to rate movies, but this is a 9.5 out of 10. Grab your friends (not your parents) and check out Deadpool & Wolverine before your universe is extinguished.
