Review by aniforprez

Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

DO NOT LOOK AT THE CAST LIST FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

Without spoiling anything, this is a really fun time with a ton of really cool surprises and some really cool action. Sometimes it goes a tad bit too far with the jokes in terms of stretching them out and out until it becomes unfunny but that feels like a signature for the series. It's a little gratuitous and a little too 4th wall breaking but all-in-all I think I like this about as much as the 2nd one. This series is surprisingly consistent considering everything that happens in it and has happened to it. I think I would genuinely recommend this to comic book fans who don't have a stick up their ass about "continuity" and other shit that really doesn't and shouldn't matter. The movie does treat some things with reverence and some things with its own brand of inanity but is overall just a really surprisingly solid movie.

Before getting to spoilers, if you're yet to watch this movie, I suggest going into it completely blind especially if you're a comic book movie fan.

Now for spoilers

I absolutely LOVED all the surprising guest appearances and I was not ready for any of them thankfully. This is such a loving tribute to heroes past and forgotten and heroes who never got their moment. They're not treated as simple cameos but given their own gratuitous fight scenes and action to perform which was deserved. While Deadpool constantly shits on 20th Century Fox, the characters and the actors in the series are treated with such love and respect and it was heartwarming to watch the BTS at the very end during the credits instead of the usual mid-credits stupid nonsense. I just hope this movie finally lets Wolverine rest and is the end of multiverses though I'm quite sure Disney is not going to care for that one bit. I completely understand why Hugh Jackman came back for this movie (aside from the bags of cash) of all movies but this is another excellent sendoff for Wolverine and I hope this is actually the quits for him. And Dafne Keen as X-23 was one of my favourite surprises in the movie and I'm so glad we saw her aged up and lovingly talk about the Logan who saved her. This stuff could have easily either swung into being sappy or utterly ridiculous and unnecessary. The movie threads through the needle and pulls it off really well somehow.

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