Deadpool & Wolverine Review: Bloody Fun MCU Fan Service By The Merc with a Mouth is finally entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe. fuses the 20th Century Fox movies with the MCU. Functioning as the latest Phase Five installment and a third Deadpool movie, this film stars again as Wade Wilson, the wisecracking superhero who finds himself face-to-face with the Time Variance Authority.
(For those who have yet to see the TV series on Disney+, the TVA is an organization that monitors the series’ various timelines.) Wade must now team up with a variant of Wolverine ( ) to save the timeline from Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen).
Deadpool & Wolverine is a cinematic delight. It is a loving tribute to decades of Marvel multi-media projects while being just as loud, brash, and bloody as the first two Deadpool movies. It’s a brilliantly entertaining experience that needs to be seen with the largest crowd possible.
When Jackman hung up the claws in 2017’s Logan, the world believed we were done with this iteration of the character. But if anyone were going to get Jackman back into Wolverine, it would be his real-life friend Ryan Reynolds. And who better to direct it than Shawn Levy, the man who directed Jackman in Real Steel and Reynolds in Free Guy and The Adam Project? Deadpool and Wolverine are a match made in heaven.
Reynolds and Jackman have phenomenal on-screen chemistry with each other. Like all the great comedy duos, we have the funny man (Deadpool) and the straight man (Wolv.