Long anticipated reteaming of Ryan Reynolds Deadpool and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, after the disappointing 'X-Men Origin: Wolverine' (2009). Of course Jackman's Wolverine meet a noble end in 2017's 'Logan', but this is a Deadpool movie and the vastly overused "multiverse" is in play now, so they cheat. I didn't really mind that though, the multiverse explotation here isn't grating as it's been in some other Marvel projects, plus the Deadpool movies are notoriously lose in continuity standards.
All this can be said to miss the point, in that what the Deadpool films have that many recent Marvel films seem to be missing, is a sense of fun and irreverence. Reynolds plays up the meta humor while Jackman plays it straight, even has a good arc, these two conflicting styles work here, a disconnect that might be Jaring in another film can be good-naturedly shrugged off. While the movie is often crude and playfully smug, that's what Reynolds franchise is and I found it still reasonably enjoyable. That being said I hope this is the last of these. ***
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