So, let’s be honest. Deadpool and Wolverine? Yeah, I was always going to go and see it. I love Marvel…and my love of Marvel started out with the X-Men movies. And Deadpool 1 and 2 were just so good. Even after his original failed debut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds actually is Deadpool. I couldn’t imagine any other actor being able to portray him nearly as well.
Sometimes, the very first scene of a movie will make me realise instantly whether I’ll like it or not. The opening scene of this movie? Had me nearly crying with laughter. Who else but Deadpool would try to dig up Logan’s body, and then use the bones from his skeleton in a battle montage…while dancing to the opening song?
I actually had very little idea of what to expect from this movie, apart from it being the long-awaited teamup between Deadpool and Wolverine. I did watch the first season of Loki, so I was familiar with both the TVA and the Void…but I don’t think you need to have watched the MCU to understand what was going on. (My sister isn’t a fan of most superhero movies, but she always enjoyed X-Men and Deadpool…and also really liked this).
I can’t say that I’m all that familiar with the comic universe, so although I appreciated the huge army of Deadpools who appeared at the end…I didn’t know much about any of them. I did love how classic!Deadpool commented on how ridiculous the multiverse was getting, because by the time that scene rolled around, I was finding it a bit tiresome. But I loved Dogpool (Mary Poppins) and I liked Nicepool, even though he had none of the attitude that makes classic!Deadpool so interesting.
I’m always a fan of humanising villains, or at least making them more interesting than ‘just destroy everyone in sight’, and I did think that Cassandra Nova was a really interesting villain in this movie. I did cringe a whole lot at the way she read people’s minds, by forcing her fingers into their heads. That just made my skin crawl, even though she explained why she needed to do it that way.
I loved all of the easter eggs in this movie…and there were a lot. I was a bit surprised that the fight between Logan and Sabretooth lasted such a short amount of time, but with everything else happening in the movie, I guess I could understand why. I probably also missed a lot of the easter eggs in the movie, due to not being familiar with some of the comics.
So yeah, I have to say that this movie is definitely worth watching. It was a lot of fun and didn’t take itself seriously at all. In my opinion, if you’re a Marvel fan, you’ll really enioy this movie…but you don’t have to be overly familiar with the MCU to understand this movie.
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