July 24, 2024
Six years after the events of "Deadpool 2", Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) had separated from his fiance Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), retired from being Deadpool and was working as a used-care salesman instead. One night, Wade was celebrating his birthday when he was abducted by Time Variance Authority (TVA) agent Mr. Paradox (Matthew MacFadyen) and sent on a mission to find Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to restore order to his timeline.
This is a highly-anticipated film because it welcomes two popular Marvel characters from 20th Century Fox into the Marvel Cinematic Universe under Disney Studios. It is also notable that Disney maintained the R rating of "Deadpool," so the "strong violence and language throughout" which audiences enjoyed before will definitely stay. And stay they did, as blood and guts were already splattering around right at the opening credits!
Along with Deadpool, also making their MCU debuts are his friends from the last movie -- co-worker Peter (Rob Delaney), elderly roommate Blind Al (Leslie Uggams), and X-force members: Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), her girlfriend Yukio (Shioli Kutsuna), steel-bodied giant Colossus (Stefan Kapičić) among others. Many more stellar superhero characters will show up, but those you just have to see for yourself, and cheer out of nostalgia!
Deadpool's hilarious signature "breaking of the fourth wall" went way into overdrive here than before. He would literally stop in the middle of a scene, and step away to talk to the audience, even grabbing the camera at one point. There was a scene where called Hugh (Jackman) by his real name and mocked his Australian accent. He was even talked about the downfall of 20th Century Fox and the fatigue over 'Multiverse"-themed superhero movies.
The main driving force of this Shawn Levy film is the terrific interaction between the two title characters who both have the power of regenerative healing, which meant that they can slash, stab, impale, shred through each other with their Adamantium blades and survive to inflict more. On a more humorous vein, there was a generous dose of gay bromance gags between the two guys, peaking in that climactic costume-popping "Time Ripper" scene. Both Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman went all out for this, and fans love them for giving their all.
The main antagonist was the telepath Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin), who can literally gets her hand in her enemy's head. My one beef would probably be that long street fight scene with multiple iterations of one character which petered out in a weak ending. The music choices for the brutal fight scenes -- from N'Sync to "The Greatest Showman" to "Grease" to Madonna -- were very surprising. It is difficult to discuss this film without going into spoilers, but suffice it to say that it was definitely bloody fun all the way, with exciting guest cameos to thrill Marvel film fans. Non-fans, however, may find the relentless self-aware fan service a bit too overwhelming. 9/10.
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