This long-awaited team-up has Tarantino-worthy blood spatter and lewd banter that covers everything from boners to cocaine
The Marvel Cinematic Universe just got very bloody. The long-awaited team-up of Hugh Jackman’s bad-tempered Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds’s foul-mouthedis a savage upper cut of a movie that really commits to earning its 15 rating – a first for MCU movies, following The Walt Disney Company’s purchase of 21st Century Fox, which previously madeand all the X-Men films, and whose characters are now going to be integrated into the MCU in an attempt to fix the flailing superhero franchise.
MCU films has until now been teen-friendly, but Deadpool & Wolverine has Tarantino-worthy blood spatter – swords through throats, blades in bums – and lewd banter that covers everything from boners to cocaine. In the comics the frenemy duo – both blessed and cursed with the ability to heal from even the most noxious wounds – are a long-time fan favourite, but on screen we’ve only ever seen Logan fight the Merc with the Mouth back in 2009’s, when Reynolds’s Deadpool was a mute assassin who incurred online wrath for deviating from the quippy antihero of the source material. Reynolds has worked hard to move on from that with the Deadpool reboots , and here, the character is joyfully obscene.
But the affable chemistry between Reynolds and Jackson carries the film, as does its full-hearted embrace of that strangely successful Deadpool tone – silly, sarcastic and outrageously violent. If it doesn’t quite feel like a reset for Marvel, the film’s persistent self-awareness nonetheless feels like a love letter to superheroes, with a battle between Deadpool and Wolverine, set to
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