Deadpool & Wolverine - Lets F&%cking Go

*turns to reader * Oh hello. You're probably wondering why I'm starting the review like this. Well, today, we're diving into Deadpool. The master of fourth wall breaking...next to one Zack Morris, but that guy is trash. So, before we dive in, let's take a look back at the first two movies.

Deadpool 1 - It's a love story.

It took a long while to get there, including a really bad, not in anyway comic accurate Deadpool. A leak of an action sequence and fanboys and fangirls alike went nuts for it and wanted a full movie. Thus, Deadpool was made (on a weaker budget).

Ryan Reynolds brought his trademark snark and dialed it up to Deadpool levels. We see the origins of the Merc with a Mouth. It's your typical story...boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, boy gets cancer and tries to become a superhero only to look like an old angry avocado with healing powers. Most of the movie is him going after the guy that made him who he was to make him look good again so he can return to the woman he loves...see, love story.

It was a fun and fresh FOX Marvel movie. It was really needed because that universe was slowly dying. The X-Men movies were losing their steam with First Class. If Wolverine wasn't in it, cameo or focus, it stunk. Deadpool was the last remaining FOX property that was still a success. So, a sequel was made.

Deadpool 2...It's a family movie.

So, you have a sequel. What do you do to shake things up? You kill the lead characters love interest of course. Setting him on a new path of being more broken and pathetic than he was before.

Then he meets a kid, Russel. And a time travelling unkillable terminator named Cable. In the future, Russel killed Cable's family and Thanos is here to kill him before that happens.

Filled with an over the top parachuting sequence, comic book references, and just enough heart. Because it was a family movie...It was about Wade finding his own family with the people in his life. Helping a young boy from going full dark side, dying in the process.

Until, you know...time traveling Cable resets and saves his life without breaking the timeline that they just saved.

These movies are not masterpieces. They're filled with dumb jokes and references that make you go...

You know what you're getting for the most part. A couple hours of mindless entertainment to forget the dumpster fire of a world we're currently in. It's like we're missing an anchor figure or something...which leads us to...!

Deadpool & Wolverine - Remembering the Past, Focused on the Future

We begin like we have the last two movies...In the middle of the story before we're lead to the present. And the middle just happens to be our hero digging up the skeletal corpse of Logan the Wolverine.

Weird? You betcha.

Taking on the TVA using said corpse while dancing around to N'SYNCs "Bye Bye Bye"? Even weirder. But I loved every second of it. It was the most insane way possible to start the movie.

After the sequence that will forever live in my head...for the next couple weeks...we get the backstory of how he got here. He's given up the mask and is no longer with Vanessa, the woman he fought for and broke time for. After a day at CarMax ripoff, he's recruited by the TVA to save the MCU because he...is Marvel Jesus. His words, not mine.

A world is dying, so he goes find a new Wolverine to be its new "anchor being". The concept is strange that one person is dependent on a world existing, but it's a not so subtle reference to the X-Men movies. It was reliant on Wolverine and were terrible when he wasn't around.

Thus began Deadpool bouncing across the Wolverine Easter Egg verse. Getting to see different versions before he comes across the one that failed his world.

The two go on a road trip, buddy cop journey through the TVA Void and different Earths to stop Deadpool's world from being destroyed by the TVA and later the enemy they made in the Void...Cassandra Nova (female version of Professor Xavier).

The movie is very much a love letter to the FOX universe. We get a few surprise cameos of people you remember, wanted to forget existed, and one that never got the chance to be.

The two finally get through their crap and risk their lives to save Wade's world, taking on an army of Deadpool variants in the process.

What did I think of it overall?

It was a fun time. I knew what I was in for (corpse fighting aside) when I sat down for a Deadpool movie. It was funny and a great ride. You can't compare it to the more serious and dramatic movies. It's a comic book movie. Designed to be action packed adventure with a lot of bad jokes. But I do so love bad jokes.

He learned a little about himself along the way and who he wants to be. Wade Wilson might learn and grow then regress a little, but he always finds his way and becomes a little better of a person.

But he'll always be the foul-mouthed, ass kicking, merc with a mouth of the FOX world. And now he's entered the MCU. He's going to cause so much chaos. And it will be entertaining every step of the way.

I really hope to see this in theaters one more time before it leaves because it was that much fun.

PS...Dogpool is the best and I will die on this hill.

4/5