Deadpool and The Wolverine movie review: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman bring lose-no-frills swag, good laughs to low-risk film

Deadpool and Wolverine movie review: Deadpool and Wolverine doesn’t want to be taken seriously, but it puts all its money, muscle and, because it’s Deadpool, into ensuring that you damn well do.

As Wade aka Deadpool requested from the very beginning, I don’t want to be just a one trick pony when he wants to join the ranks of the Avengers. What’s better than a one trick pony? How about two, doing the same trick?
Deadpool and Wolverine have a problem. So he doesn’t want to be taken seriously, but he uses all his money, power, and, because he’s Deadpool, power to make sure you do well. Hence the many, many sides of the Fox and Disney deal that made all of this possible (really, who cares about that so much?), hence the meta Marvel references, hence the self-deprecating tone, hence the talk about the metaverse, and hence the overall one-trick embrace, etc. etc., even though our guys “save the universe (at least one timeline of it, or do I have that right?)”, and send some bad guys to pretty gruesome deaths.
For the most part, despite the obsession with sex by any other name, Deadpool and Wolverine are fun. Reynolds as Deadpool and Jackman as Logan aka Wolverine bring contrasting emotions, loner personalities and a swag of nothing to lose in some impressive battles and, despite our better judgment, some good laughs. These include an opening sequence in which Deadpool uses the bones of a rotting skeleton to kill a small army, a confrontation with Wolverine before the two team up, and a guilty pleasure confrontation inside a car that nearly leaves him covered in blood.

A very badass Cassandra Nova (a slippery, slippery, nimble Corrin) literally digs into their fingers and reads minds. This makes for some pretty spectacular special effects, even in a franchise with them.
However, one has to wonder what the risk is when one hero (Wolverine) is “reborn” and the other (Deadpool) “can’t die”? Logan actually died in a movie of the same name, which gave him a satisfying sendoff, but here he’s summoned again from a different timeline. So yes, not only can Deadpool and Wolverine die even if they’re dead, if someone has been in the Marvel Cinematic Universe long enough they can always be brought back, though it took some work to get them both here.
So then should we care? Probably not. However, remember that Deadpool and Wolverine – who is actually an addition to the weight-less Deadpool timeline rather than the weightier X-Men – should not let themselves be concerned in any way.
All he has to do is focus on certain timelines, continue a series of “oh” cameos with X-rated jokes and political correctness jokes in Deadpool’s case, nods to his biceps and “oily tits” in Wolverine’s case, and then sprinkle all that Marvel Studios dust around