‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ review: two antagonistic superheroes

Kevin Feigethe ideologist, architect and demiurge of Marvel Cinematic Universehas borrowed a character in whose first two films he did not participate, Deadpoolhas joined it to Wolverine –resurrected through the multiverses and changes of timelines, a Marvel classic, after he died in ‘Logan’–, has spiced up the whole with a trademark villain –Cassandra Nova, Professor Xavier’s twin sister– and others Superheroes from very different stories and scattered throughout the plot somewhat haphazardly. (Elektra, Gambit, Blade, Human Torch) and, with these elements, he has created a device with which he hopes to recover the ground and time lost with the franchise’s latest failures.

The right collision. Deadpool is a walking joke, a superhero back from the dead who keeps making funny comments and talks directly into the fourth wall. Wolverine is the tormented, alcoholic superhero who doesn’t give a damn about anything. They don’t make the best possible superhero duo, but they’re not a disaster either. in the shared ecosystem designed for them by Feige and Ryan Reynolds, for whom Deadpool is its own franchise: he acts, produces and participates in the script.

If you take it as a joke, as a parody, it can be funny.. Multi-referentiality is more important than the multiverses in question, so let’s enjoy the loquacious Reynolds and his references or digs at Madonna, Fox, Disney studios, Batman or Feige himself. If you take it seriously, it only has one dramatic moment, Wolverine’s confession of his many sins..

If you look at it from the Marvel universe, the appearances of the other characters lack any real substance, they seem more like private winks so that we can see them in action again. Wesley Snipes either Jennifer Garner in his Marvel duties. As an action film it is deficient. Some spectacular fight sequences are downright poorly shot. As a comedy it has its moments. I’ll leave them out so as not to give away spoilers, but they’re clever.