Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
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Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Aaron Stanford, Matthew Macfadyen, Dafne Keen, Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes, Chris Evans, Channing Tatum
Wade Wilson is captured by the Time Variance Authority, who inform him that his timeline is collapsing because of the death of Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine. Wade takes matters into his own hands and travels the multiverse in search of a suitable living Logan variant. The third Deadpool feature, which sees the hero team up with Wolverine and join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has similar prerequisites to The Marvels, the most recent flop in the MCU's Multiverse Saga. To make any sense of the plot and jokes, you need to have seen at least Deadpool 1 and 2, Logan, and two seasons of the Disney+ TV show Loki, and have basic knowledge of Disney's takeover of Fox, and how it affected the rights to various Marvel characters displayed here. The end result is a breezy movie, where all the gags are self-referential and metatextual. When Deadpool and Wolverine, two characters with healing abilities, bash each other for minutes, not once but twice, to me that is the definition of pointlessness. As we've come to learn, actions have no consequences in the multiverse, and even if they did, Deadpool would crack jokes about it and remind us that this is just a movie.