By: Ica Hontiveros-Cheng
You may proceed. This review has no spoilers.
To say that ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ is the movie event of the year is an understatement. I can’t remember the last time I was this excited for a movie. Probably the last time was ‘Endgame’. There was no special screening for ‘Endgame’ I even got tickets to one of the earlier screenings. Going into ‘Endgame’ I knew that what I was going to be seeing was a culmination of the first twenty-two films of the MCU. But that wasn’t the case for ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ which came out five years after ‘Endgame’. Ironically it also took five years after those who were ‘snapped’ in ‘the blip’ to come back.
I expected ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ to be like the other two previous ‘Deadpool’ movies, unabashed and hilariously funny. There were going to be no limits to who were going to get run over with a quick delivered witty line, or who was going to be the subject to explexitives. Truth bombs were going to be dropped, it didn’t matter if you were a movie executive, or a Hollywood A-lister, you were gonna get it.
Of course, the gratuitous violence was a no-brainer, something which they were able to keep, despite the transition from 20th Century Fox to the family friendly Disney brand. This is the first ‘Deadpool’ movie under the Disney umbrella, the first two Deadpool movies were previously under 20th Century Fox, and so was Wolverine and all of the movies that he was in (X-Men, Logan, let’s forget that Origins even happened).
What I didn’t expect was being emotional in a number of scenes, while the film might have poked fun at former studio 20th Century Fox, it also gave it the proper send off that it deserved. And as a kid who grew up watching more than two decades worth of superhero movies, I couldn’t help but become emotional and cry.
So, it was probabbly destiny, or this timeline correcting itself, but after a much publicized acquisition, Deadpool, Wolverine and all all other previous 20th Century Fox characters (Deadpool, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc.) are now already under the Disney umbrella. And the team up between the Merc with the mouth and Weapon X has long been teased, and the two of them coming together on the big screen at this time is much welcome, especially with Marvel’s lukewarm titles after ‘Endgame’.
It was as if, Deadpool and Wolverine were the unexpected heroes that Marvel needs at this time, and oh boy, did they show up and deliver.
Without spoiling anything, because the best way to experience ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ as is with other MCU films, is to go in, with little to no knowledge of the movie, (although, it became harder and harder to avoid surprises as the release date for ‘Deadpool And Wolverine’ came closer) the unlikely duo come together to save timelines and right past wrongs. This, while they battle TVA Agents (see the ‘Loki’ series), and forgotten mutants and heroes, and variants, among others. Keep your eyes glued to the screen to catch blink-or-you-will miss cameos. Which were just so crazy and out of this world multiverse!
The cameos were so wild I thought, “I want to be in the writing room when they came up with this wild story, with all the crazy cameos, it was like, there was nothing that was off limits, like, everything was okay. You can pitch anything and it was going to be a ‘hell yes!’” -that was how unpredictable and unhinged. ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ was. And the soundtrack? I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun with the song choices, I might be biased since a lot of them are Pop hits from my day.
‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ was a wild ride, I’d love to get right back on.
Then I can sing, laugh, and cry all over again.