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Gory, profane, sexy superhero story great, but NOT for kids.

Parents Need to Know

Why Age 17+?

Extremely strong, bloody, graphic violence: decapitations, brains oozing out of

Frequent strong language used in nearly every scene: "f--k," "motherf--ker," "s-

Wade and Vanessa (who's initially a sex worker) flirt, kiss, and make love in a

Adults drink in a pub; some are drunk. Adults smoke cigarettes.

Characters use iPhones and other Apple product and drive a Chevy Suburban. Deadp

Any Positive Content?

Explores how someone can be "super" but not a "hero" and how mutants with extra

Lots of questionable behavior, but Wade and Vanessa clearly love each other and

Women such as Vanessa, Angel Dust, and Blind Al, a Black blind woman (played by

Violence & Scariness

Extremely strong, bloody, graphic violence: decapitations, brains oozing out of shots to the head, torture that leads to a mutant transformation, gory injuries, explosions, car crashes, gun fights, swordplay, bone-breaking, and hand-to-hand fights.

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Frequent strong language used in nearly every scene: "f--k," "motherf--ker," "s--t," "a--hole," "ass," "bitch," "p---y," "d--k," "douche," "c--k," and "Jesus Christ" used as exclamation. Mashed-up insults include "s--t show," "d--k t-ts," "douche pool," and "c--k whistle." Sexual innuendos (teabagging, ball-swallowing, etc.) are also frequent.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Wade and Vanessa (who's initially a sex worker) flirt, kiss, and make love in a montage that includes nudity (bare breasts visible), different positions, and lots of role/food play. A scene in a strip club also shows women's breasts. Wade is naked during a fight; his butt is visible, and there are possible quick glimpses of his genitals. In a cut scene, a character masturbates under his clothes.

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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

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Products & Purchases

Characters use iPhones and other Apple product and drive a Chevy Suburban. Deadpool is also part of the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe with lots of tie-in merchandise and spin-offs.

Positive Messages

Explores how someone can be "super" but not a "hero" and how mutants with extra abilities struggle with the tension between being selfless and following their own agenda. Emphasizes the value of teamwork. Love, and the reckless things you do for love, play a central part in the story.

Positive Role Models

Lots of questionable behavior, but Wade and Vanessa clearly love each other and will do anything possible to protect one another. The X-Men help Deadpool even though it's not their fight, and he's not yet a member. Colossus tries to explain to Deadpool that being heroic boils down to a few momentous choices in life.

Diverse Representations

Women such as Vanessa, Angel Dust, and Blind Al, a Black blind woman (played by the sighted actress Leslie Uggams) who befriends Wade, exist only to serve Wade's story. While Angel Dust does have some moments of heroism, the film's women generally remain damsels in distress. Blind Al is portrayed poorly, referred to by other characters as "Mr. Magoo," and she struggles to do tasks like assembling store-bought furniture. She's one of only two characters of color who speak in the film. The other is an Indian taxi driver who becomes Deadpool's chosen transporter. Struggling to keep the attention of his own love, he's naively led to violence by Deadpool's advice. Wade is diagnosed with cancer but is then offered a magical cure that promises him "normalcy." Upon taking the cure, he's permanently scarred across his face and body, which is consistently ridiculed and demeaned by the people around him -- including by the people who love him. The movie's creators, director Tim Miller and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, are all White men.

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Parents need to know that Deadpool is a 2016 superhero film that's part of the X-Men series within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But unlike most other Marvel films, Deadpool is bloody and raunchy, with lots of graphic violence, sex (including nudity), adult humor, and nonstop language. Expect words like "f--k" in nearly every scene, plus "s--t," "a--hole," "bitch," and much more. The violence is close-up and bloody, ranging from torture and decapitation to dismemberment, brains oozing out of skulls, brutal hand-to-hand combat, etc. A racy sex montage includes naked breasts, as does a scene set in a strip club; there's also a scene in which Deadpool/Wade Wilson ( Ryan Reynolds ) fights while naked -- both his butt and quick, obscured glimpses of his genitals are visible. Adults also smoke and drink. The film insults everyone equally, poking fun at a blind woman and reinforcing some harmful racial stereotypes. The popular film has spawned sequels including Deadpool 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine . To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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PARENTS BEWARE!

Amazing anti-hero movie for older teens, what's the story.

DEADPOOL follows Wade Wilson ( Ryan Reynolds ), who's already in costume as he tells viewers how he ended up becoming a masked vengeance seeker. Motor-mouth Wade explains that he's a former special forces soldier who used to moonlight as a private mercenary, doing things like threatening young stalkers for a living. Then he falls for Vanessa ( Morena Baccarin ), a former sex worker -- with a heart of gold -- who's just as wickedly funny as he is. When Wade's diagnosed with incurable metastatic cancer, he takes up a mysterious visitor's offer for a chance of survival via experimentation. Wade's sarcasm angers experimenter Ajax ( Ed Skrein ), who pushes the treatment into all-out torture. After escaping, Wade reinvents himself as Deadpool, with the goal of getting revenge and possibly winning back the woman he loves.

Is It Any Good?

If you thought this film might just be a smidge more violent than your standard Avengers or X-Men movie, know this: It's NOT for middle schoolers. Deadpool is full of adult language, sex/nudity and innuendo, and gore riddled with blood spatter, body parts, and gun battles. But for mature audiences who enjoy the Marvelverse, Deadpool is a fast-paced, entertaining origin story that winks enough at the genre without straying too far from the winning formula that even the credits acknowledge (starring "some idiot," "hot chick," "moody teen," "British villain," etc.).

For one thing, Reynolds was born to play this loud-mouthed, acid-tongued anti-hero with the ability to crush heads and crack up audiences in Marvel's decidedly adult action-comedy. With his action skills, athletic build, and well-honed comic timing, Reynolds was an ideal pick for the nonstop joker who breaks the fourth wall, makes lewd references to Wolverine , and wants nothing more than to regain his old life with his beloved Vanessa. Baccarin is equally well cast as Deadpool's tough, fiery, loving partner. And T.J. Miller is hilarious as Wade's only real friend, an arms dealer named Weasel.

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Families can talk about the amount of violence in Deadpool . How much is shown, and how is it different than the violence in other superhero movies? How does Deadpool's humor affect the impact of the blood and gore? What's the impact of media violence on kids?

Why do you think the filmmakers decided to make Deadpool so much edgier than the typical superhero movie? Is there a risk in making this kind of movie inappropriate for younger comics fans?

How does the movie portray sex and romantic relationships? Are Wade and Vanessa in a healthy relationship? Does Vanessa's past matter to Wade? How about to audiences?

Is Wade/Deadpool a role model ? How does he compare to other reluctant superheroes like Wolverine and Tony Stark?

Movie Details

In theaters : February 12, 2016
On DVD or streaming : May 10, 2016
Cast : Ryan Reynolds , Morena Baccarin , Gina Carano
Director : Tim Miller
Inclusion Information : Female actors, Latino actors
Studio : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Genre : Action/Adventure
Topics : Superheroes
Run time : 108 minutes
MPAA rating : R
MPAA explanation : strong violence and language throughout, sexual content and graphic nudity
Last updated : September 2, 2024

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Film Review: ‘Deadpool’

Ryan Reynolds gets the full-throttle wisecracking showcase he deserves in this scabrously funny origin story.

By Justin Chang

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At this point, a movie studio would have to torch its headquarters, donate its merchandising revenues to charity, and produce a seven-hour art film performed in Ukrainian sign language to do something that truly qualified as a subversive gesture. Until then, viewers should gladly submit to the gleefully self-skewering pleasures of “ Deadpool ,” a scabrously funny big-screen showcase for the snarkiest of Marvel’s comic-book creations — a disfigured and disreputable mercenary who likes to crack wise, bust heads and generally lay waste to the idea that he’s anyone’s hero. As a vehicle for the impudent comic stylings of Ryan Reynolds , this cheerfully demented origin story is many, many cuts above “Green Lantern,” and as a sly demolition job on the superhero movie, it sure as hell beats “Kick-Ass.” And given the resurgence of fanboy interest following a well-received trailer at last year’s Comic-Con (plus the benefit of Imax showings), “Deadpool” should show plenty of life at the box office, especially if its well-earned R rating functions less as kiss of death than as badge of honor.

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Fast, ferocious and inevitably a bit too pleased with its own cleverness, this Fox-produced offshoot of the “X-Men” series nevertheless can’t help but feel like a nasty, nose-thumbing tonic next to the shinier delegations of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as represented by Disney’s “Avengers” franchise (and its various subfranchises) and Sony’s not-so-amazing “Spider-Man” movies. Better still, “Deadpool” knows exactly how to use Reynolds, an actor whose smooth leading-man good looks have long disguised one of the sharpest funnyman sensibilities in the business, as fans of “The Proposal,” “Definitely, Maybe” and the underrated “Just Friends” can attest.

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It’s not the kind of star profile that immediately screams “blockbuster” (that’s a compliment), and admittedly, Reynolds’ peripheral first appearance as Deadpool, in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (2009), offered little hint of what he could really do with the role; happily, this wholesale reboot seems to inhabit a superior alternate reality where that dreadful earlier movie doesn’t exist. Deadpool does drop a few “X-Men” references here and there, and they’re crude and irreverent in the extreme, whether he’s joking about fondling Wolverine’s privates or dismissing Prof. Xavier as a creepy pedophile — all of which he offers up as evidence of his spectacular disinterest in contributing in any way to the ever-expanding glut of superhero movies.

That’s nonsense, of course. Even with its nastier tone, grislier action and more sexually explicit banter, “Deadpool” turns out to be a comic-book enterprise through and through, but served up in a shrewdly self-mocking guise; it pulls off that very postmodern trick of getting away with formulas and cliches simply by pointing them out. The opening credits sequence features what might be described as an honest cast list, even going so far as to introduce first-time feature director Tim Miller as “An Overpaid Tool.” That eagerness to break down the fourth wall was present in the original Deadpool comic books by writer Fabian Nicieza and artist/writer Rob Liefeld, and scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (doing wittier work than you’d expect from their scripts for “Zombieland” and “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”) stay true to the same spirit as they cut cheekily between two time frames, using Reynolds’ smartass voiceover to paper over the cracks.

Before he turns into an ugly, cynical mercenary named Deadpool, Reynolds’ character is a hunky, cynical mercenary named Wade Wilson, who spends most of his time at Sister Margaret’s Home for Wayward Girls — a front for the scuzzy dive where his best friend, bartender Weasel (T.J. Miller, “Silicon Valley”), keeps the beer flowing and the weapons moving among his down-and-dirty clientele. It’s here that Wade meets a beautiful, gold-hearted prostitute named Vanessa Carlysle ( Morena Baccarin , “Homeland,” “Gotham”); recognizing each other as damaged kindred spirits, they begin screwing in earnest, zipping and unzipping their way through an extended sex-scene montage that plays out over a year’s worth of racy holidays. (“Happy Intl. Women’s Day,” Vanessa coos as she adjusts her strap-on, though that’s about as far as the movie goes in terms of even hinting at Deadpool’s famously pansexual appetites.)

Wade and Vanessa are deeply in love, but their bliss proves short-lived when he receives a terminal cancer diagnosis. This being an origin story, his only recourse is to submit to a bizarre experiment performed by the sadistic scientist Ajax (Ed Skrein), ignoring the rule that one should generally steer clear of medical professionals named after Greek warriors and household cleaners. Ajax subjects Wade to a series of increasingly grim procedures, accompanied by hideous torture techniques, in an attempt to force a genetic mutation that will rid him of his cancer. While successful in that regard, the procedures unfortunately also rid Wade of his face, turning him into a bald lump of scar tissue who looks less like Ryan Reynolds and more like a 150-year-old John Malkovich in desperate need of wrinkle cream and sunblock.

Now gifted with Wolverine-style self-healing abilities and an endless lease on life, Wade wants his old body back, and so he dons a rubbery red-and-black suit (the better to hide the bloodstains) and the identity of Deadpool. What follows is a fairly straightforward shoot-and-blow-’em-up revenge picture, starting with a visceral car chase/standoff that occupies much of the film’s early going and midsection. “I’m just a bad guy who gets paid to f—k up worse guys,” Deadpool snarls in one of his many to-the-camera asides, which he frequently uses to drop jokes about masturbation and defecation, plus random references to the Spin Doctors, “The Matrix,” Sinead O’Connor, Judy Blume, the “Taken” movies and any other stray bits of pop-culture effluvia that happen to pop into his mottled, misshapen head.

If it all sounds terribly arch and juvenile, it is. It’s also startlingly effective: Somehow, through sheer timing, gusto and verve (and an assist from Julian Clarke’s deft editing), Reynolds gives all this self-referential potty talk a delirious comic momentum — reaching a peak when he’s trading quips with Blind Al (Leslie Uggams), the wizened, sightless old woman who functions as his caretaker, housekeeper and sparring partner. Additional punching bags turn up in the form of two X-Men allies: Colossus (Stefan Kapicic), basically an overgrown Arnold Schwarzenegger hood ornament, and sullen goth girl Ellie Phimister, aka Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), whose mutant powers include conjuring massive fireballs and sending angry tweets. The two of them exist mainly to keep Deadpool in line, and also to help him battle Ajax and his impossibly strong lieutenant, Angel Dust (Gina Carano).

But in the end, these supporting players are so much background noise — drowned out, on occasion, by the repetitive sounds of explosions, gunshots and body slams, and also by the constant wham (and Wham!) of the soundtrack. Baccarin, after getting to play Rosalind Russell to Reynolds’ Cary Grant early on, is ultimately treated in line with the “Hot Chick” moniker she’s given in the opening credits. Miller has fun staging all manner of vehicular and architectural chaos, but mostly stays out of the way of his script and his star. The movie exists entirely as a star vehicle for Reynolds, and perhaps its canniest stroke is the way it both conceals and demolishes his physical beauty — a small price to pay when an actor’s tongue is this gloriously sharp. “I look like a testicle with teeth,” Deadpool snarls. And as long as he’s around, you’ll have a ball.

Reviewed at 20th Century Fox Studios, Jan. 30, 2016. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 107 MIN.

Production: A 20th Century Fox release and presentation, in association with Marvel Entertainment, of a Kinberg Genre/the Donners’ Co. production. Produced by Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds, Lauren Shuler Donner. Executive producers, Stan Lee, John J. Kelly, Jonathan Komack Martin, Aditya Sood, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick.
Crew: Directed by Tim Miller. Screenplay, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick. Camera (color, Panavision widescreen), Ken Seng; editor, Julian Clarke; music, Tom Holkenborg; music supervisor, John Houlihan; production designer, Sean Haworth; art director, Nigel Evans; set decorator, Shannon Gottlieb; set designers, Randy Hutniak, Sheila Millar; costume designer, Angus Strathie; sound (Dolby Atmos), David Husby; supervising sound editors, Wayne Lemmer, Jim Brookshire; sound designers, Craig Henighan, Lemmer, Ai-ling Lee, Warren Hendriks; re-recording mixers, Paul Massey, Will Files; special effects coordinator, Alex Burdett; visual effects supervisor, Jonathan Rothbart; visual effects producer, Annemarie Griggs; visual effects and animation, Digital Domain, Atomic Fiction, Weta Digital; visual effects, RodeoFX, Luma Pictures; stunt coordinators, Robert Alonzo, Philip J. Silvera; associate producer, Thane Campbell Watkins; assistant director, James Bitonti; second unit director, Robert Alonzo; second unit camera, Roger Vernon; casting, Ronna Kress.
With: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller, Gina Carano, Leslie Uggams, Brianna Hildebrand, Karan Soni, Jed Rees, Stefan Kapicic, Randal Reeder, Isaac C. Singleton Jr.

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Deadpool & Wolverine First Reviews: A Bloody, Hilarious Good time

Critics say the irreverent marvel sequel pokes plenty of fun at the studio and benefits from stellar chemistry from its stars..

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is back! Not only is Deadpool & Wolverine the first MCU film release in more than eight months (and it will be the only one this year), but it’s arguably the most satisfying installment since Avengers: Endgame . The third Deadpool movie brings Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with a Mouth to the MCU for the first time, and he’s joined by Hugh Jackman’ s Wolverine from the X-Men franchise as they buddy up and have it out, bloody R-rated style, through a meta-filled multiverse adventure. The first reviews can’t say a whole lot due to plot and cameo spoilers, but they offer fans a promise of expectations exceeded.

Here’s what critics are saying about Deadpool & Wolverine :

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

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Is this one of the best Marvel movies yet?

Deadpool & Wolverine is the ultimate Marvel movie. — Rohan Patel, ComicBookMovie.com

The best of the MCU outings since Avengers: Endgame . — Brian Truitt, USA Today

Easily the best Marvel has delivered since 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home . — Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post

Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

How does it compare to the previous Deadpool movies?

The third film is somehow even funnier than the sidesplitting previous two entries. — Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post

Just as in Deadpool and Deadpool 2 , buried beneath Deadpool & Wolverine’ s never-ending sea of psychosexual scatological humor, splatter-punk absurdities, fourth-wall breaks within fourth-wall breaks, and superpowered Jackass -like gags is a massive, indomitable beating heart. — Justin Clark, Slant Magazine

Those who find Deadpool’ s exhaustive battering ram of dick jokes, irreverent pop culture commentary, and full-on Ryan Reynolds mugging migraine-inducing may find this the most insufferable Deadpool entry yet. — Matt Oakes, Silver Screen Riot

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Will comic book fans be happy?

People who love comic books and the movies they have inspired are going to have a frickin’ field day! — David Poland, The Hot Button

It’s one of the most wildly enjoyable comic book movies ever. — Rohan Patel, ComicBookMovie.com

How are the cameos?

The cameos are spectacular in a way that will resonate with anyone who’s been going to the multiplexes over the last 30 years (one of them left me laughing in tears), and the best of them are lovingly extended into genuine supporting roles. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire

There are many familiar faces — a fact likely to either get audiences positively keyed up or overwhelmed by sheer cameo mania. — Matt Oakes, Silver Screen Riot

Is this one of the best blockbusters of the year?

The movie can boast an all-too-rare quality for aspiring blockbusters: It’s just plain fun. Chalk it up as one of those rare experiences where audiences should derive as much enjoyment from watching the film as its leads appeared to have had making it. — David Poland, The Hot Button

How is the action?

The fights and effects are hugely improved. — Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post

There is this giant, complex fight with a crazy number of characters and Levy doesn’t let himself get bogged down in trying to deliver every angle of the fight. He knows which characters we have a relationship with and he services that relationship while never making us feel like we are missing other stuff. — David Poland, The Hot Button

It has some of the most comic book-y fight choreography we’ve ever seen from these characters or from any CBM. Wolverine fights like he’s been ripped straight out of the pages of a Marvel Comic, exhibiting his trademark berserker rage… Enjoy the carnage. — Rohan Patel, ComicBookMovie.com

Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, and Shawn Levy on the set of Deapool & Wolverine (2024)

Was Shawn Levy the right director to take the reins?

Shawn Levy, as director of this franchise for the first time, does pretty flawless work here. He is a pro who knows what he is doing and manages to keep a lot of very complex action with a lot of characters making visual and story sense. — David Poland, The Hot Button

Director Shawn Levy is used to juggling characters and cultural references from his work on Night at the Museum , Free Guy , and Stranger Things , but this is next level. — Brian Truitt, USA Today

Levy has a few clear skill sets as a director: He’s great at bringing out Reynolds’s natural breezy humor. He’s also a skilled mimic, which ends up serving him well here. — Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence

Is it clever?

The opening is kind of ingenious. The second act is kind of ingenious. The third act is kind of ingenious. There are just some really clever ideas. — David Poland, The Hot Button

The film is a masterclass in meta-humor. — Linda Marric, HeyUGuys

Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

How is Hugh Jackman’s return as Wolverine?

Jackman especially runs a gamut of emotions as a Logan lashing out because of the trauma he’s faced; whatever they’re paying him in cash and themed popcorn buckets is not enough. — Brian Truitt, USA Today

If you thought Hugh Jackman was incredible in Logan , then brace yourselves for another all-time performance from the greatest comic book movie actor of our generation in Deadpool & Wolverine . — Rohan Patel, ComicBookMovie.com

While he isn’t the Logan we’ve previously encountered in the X-Men films, his performance channels the same feral bad-boy energy that has made Wolverine a mainstay in the superhero genre for 24 years… However, Deadpool & Wolverine fails to justify bringing the character back from the dead for anything beyond purely commercial ambitions. — Matt Oakes, Silver Screen Riot

Emma Corrin in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

What about Emma Corrin as the villain?

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the absolutely electrifying performance by Emma Corrin… Corrin delivers a tour-de-force performance that is both menacing and captivating. Their portrayal is a stark departure from the roles we’ve seen them in previously, showcasing a remarkable range and depth of talent. — Linda Marric, HeyUGuys

Emma Corrin in particular brings a lively yet demented air to their villain role. — Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence

Emma Corrin is exceptional as Cassandra Nova. — Rohan Patel, ComicBookMovie.com

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Review: ‘Deadpool,’ a Sardonic Supervillain on a Kill Mission

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By Manohla Dargis

Feb. 11, 2016

Jokes and bullets are tossed like confetti in “Deadpool,” a feverishly eager-to-please comic-book movie about a supervillain who suits up like a superhero. In uniform, the title character, an ordinary mercenary turned freakishly powerful mercenary, may look a little like Spider-Man, at least to the comic-book agnostic. But Deadpool is far more psychotic than heroic, which he cheerfully establishes by painting the screen red with one kill after another. He points, shoots, jokes (repeat), often while cracking wise right into the camera.

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The times critic manohla dargis reviews “deadpool.”.

The movie is the latest entry in the incessantly expanding comic book movie universe, which is crowded with beautiful physical specimens battling hordes of bad guys. The specimen in this case is Ryan Reynolds, whose performance feels like career rehab (or penance) for “Green Lantern,” the 2011 dud he fronted for DC Comics. Here, he plays Wade Wilson, a breezily amoral hired gun who, after some story filler, turns into Deadpool, an antihero who likes to address the camera between kills. Breaking the fourth wall is old stuff, especially in comedy and, like pokes in the ribs and stage winks, can be a way filmmakers signal to the audience that we’re all in this together.

The filmmakers do a lot of winking and rib poking; they sell “Deadpool” so hard that you might wonder if the studio has started to pay on commission. The sales pitch starts with the opening credits, which consist of a series of genre clichés — “hot chick,” “British villain” and “comic relief” — instead of the usual headliner cast and crew names. It’s one of the best sequences in the movie, partly because it’s a bit complicated. At that early point, the audience can pretend (wink, wink) that it doesn’t know whether “Deadpool” is going to deliver on each of those clichés, from the requisite babe (Morena Baccarin, appealing and age appropriate) to the regulation British baddie (Ed Skrein). But what else would an entertainment juggernaut deliver in a movie like this? Surprises?

The opening credits are worth lingering over because they’re enjoyable and because they’re a clever pre-emptive strike. By immediately announcing the clichés that they will soon deploy, the filmmakers at once flatter and reassure the audience even as they lower any expectations that what follows will be new or different. You can almost hear the studio suits whispering in your ear: “Come on, we all know that these kinds of movies rely on silly stereotypes — that’s part of the fun!” And seriously who doesn’t like fun? Yet to laugh (as I did) at these self-mocking credits is to give in to a somewhat compromised pleasure. Because, among other things, you are also laughing at your willingness to settle for the same old, same old, which suggests that the joke is on you.

It is or it isn’t. Much depends on whether you’re down with the comic-book film imperative no matter what transpires on-screen; whether you find Deadpool’s Jim Carrey-style logorrhea hilarious or tedious; whether you think watching people (oops, fictional characters) get roughed up, impaled, shot, tortured and liquidated in scene after scene for laughs is just another night at the movies. It also depends on whether you don’t mind that “Deadpool” soon makes good on its opening credits. Because, as promised, the filmmakers trot out the usual character types (the hot chick, the comic relief, etc.), along with the familiar beats, even as they briefly fold in some nicely played home-front melodrama which, for a few scenes, makes “Deadpool” genuinely more ambitious than most works of this kind.

These sections push the story forward, laying the foundation for the existential divide that defines every superhero, even a putative roguish outlier like Deadpool. And while the tears salting these scenes may be cynical given the movie’s embrace of a what-me-worry nihilism, they offer a necessary break from the strained patter and violence. They also show that the director, Tim Miller, and Mr. Reynolds can do more than hit the same bombastic notes over and over again. It’s no surprise that the teams hired to bring a property like “Deadpool” to the screen know how to keep the machine oiled and humming; it’s the ones who somehow manage to temporarily stick a wrench in the works, adding something human — a feeling instead of another quip — who are worth your attention.

“Deadpool” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Bangs, booms and splatter. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes.

An earlier version of this review referred incorrectly to Marvel’s connection to “Deadpool.” While the Marvel name is on the movie because it created the character, the movie was made by 20th Century Fox.

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Critics praise chemistry between Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds in 'Deadpool & Wolverine'.
R-rated jokes don't hold back, offering dark humor fitting for characters like Deadpool.
Film includes deep-cut jokes and fan service cameos, adding layers of enjoyment for fans.

Reviews for Deadpool & Wolverine are in, and critics have cited a multitude of reasons why the third entry in Deadpool's cinematic saga deserves high praise. Uniting the relentlessly silly fourth-wall-breaking antics of Ryan Reynold's Deadpool with the comic book movie royalty of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, Deadpool & Wolverine aims to kick off the era of mutants in the MCU . General audiences have been apprehensive to feast their eyes on the film, but early screenings from critics have been mostly kind.

At the time of writing, Deadpool & Wolverine boasts 80% on Rotten Tomatoes , suggesting a modest-to-high level of success with professional movie critics. While the score still falls just shy of Deadpool and Deadpool 2 's critical scores, coming days may yet improve its standing. Either way, reviewers have found plenty to praise about 2024's sole MCU movie , making the film a promising entry into the lauded cinema franchise.

Deadpool & Wolverine is in many ways a love-letter to Fox’s superhero movies, but it also draws notably from the MCU’s most recent developments.

10 Hugh Jackman And Ryan Reynolds Have Great Chemistry

"ryan reynolds and hugh jackman are having so much fun on screen it is impossible not to have fun with them." - nell minow, moviemom.com.

It's safe to say that much of the appeal of Deadpool & Wolverine is predicated on its success as a buddy cop action comedy . Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool have technically shared the screen briefly before in the abysmally-received X-Men Origins: Wolverine , but Deadpool & Wolverine promises an extended feature on both characters working together in their full colorful spandex glory. Luckily, critics seem to be in agreement that Jackman and Reynold's chemistry is second-to-none.

Wolverine is a natural straight man to Deadpool's insatiable goofball, and the two veteran stars piloting the roles pass this assignment with flying colors.

The two regenerating mutants seem to be a natural fit for one another, not just in powers, but in personalities, as well. Wolverine is a natural straight man to Deadpool's insatiable goofball, and the two veteran stars piloting the roles pass this assignment with flying colors. Many reviews have praised Jackman and Reynolds' ability to bounce off one another, elevating the physical comedy and verbal jabs to new heights with every scene.

9 The R-Rated Jokes Don't Hold Back

"the script also doesn’t hold back, with jokes about “pegging”, cocaine and jackman’s divorce zinging around." - james mottram, scmp.com.

In inducting Deadpool into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one of the few worries on the minds of astute audiences has been the integration of Deadpool's particular brand of humor into the altogether cleaner MCU. Certainly, the Marvel Cinematic Universe hasn't been afraid to write in the occasional off-color joke. That being said, the MCU is largely a strictly PG-13 affair, with Deadpool & Wolverine being the franchise's first R-rated film in its entire 34-movie run.

Thankfully, critics have put fans at ease that Deadpool & Wolverine makes no sacrifices in sanding down the typically potty-mouthed scripts of the Deadpool films. The Merc with a Mouth is just as off-color as ever with his remarks, bringing up everything from sex acts to drug abuse with joyful candor. That being said, some reviewers have noted the relative sexlessness of the script compared to other Deadpool entries, being the only arena in which the MCU's sanitization has perhaps begun to creep in.

8 Deadpool & Wolverine Has Plenty Of Fan Service Cameos

"what we have here is a production full of fan service, in which cameos come every now and then" - sebastian zavala kahn, me gusta el cine.

As yet another of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's recent romps through the multiverse, it's no surprise that fans are expectant for Deadpool & Wolverine to feature a heavy number of cameos. With both the MCU and Fox's X-Men film timeline on the table, the film has no shortage of previous material to pull from. Critics seem to be raving at the sheer quantity and quality of cameos, references, and easy-to-miss Easter eggs on display, implying that the film has made good on this promise.

In fact, the very nature of these moments of fan service seems to have been making some obscure pulls from Marvel's movie catalog. Several reviews have implied that Deadpool & Wolverine reaches further back than the Marvel Cinematic Universe or even the Fox X-Men films for its references, possibly leaving pre-MCU Marvel banner films like Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy or Ang Lee's Hulk up for brief nods. The multilayered nature of the MCU's multiverse truly makes anything possible.

7 Deadpool & Wolverine Proves The MCU Isn't Out Of Ideas

"deadpool & wolverine are here not only to offer a return to those good old days pre-snap, but help us remember what made us love the mcu in the first place." - dan tabor, cinapse.

It's no secret that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been nearing dire straights as of recent years. After the success of the finale that was the duology of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame , the series has struggled to maintain pop-culture relevance , with a recent string of box office failures and ominous scrambling to restructure upcoming releases plaguing the franchise.

It's safe to say that many are looking to Deadpool & Wolverine to "save" the MCU.

Not only have critics acknowledged this position, but they've reported that the film itself seems to make the MCU's fading legacy a literal plot point. Reviewers have stressed that Deadpool directly acknowledges the series' recent failures, staking his film on the ability to recapture the joy that the series managed to muster in its prime. Luckily, according to many critics, the film seems to succeed at doing so, proving that the MCU still has " some gas left in that Honda Odyssey ", according to Dan Tabor of Cinapse.

6 Deadpool & Wolverine Features Two Excellent Villains

"honestly, macfadyen and corrin are reason enough to see this in theaters." - kristy puchko, mashable.

It's no secret that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has long struggled with crafting engaging villains. While the MCU's standout villains are some of the most memorable in cinema, for every well-executed antagonist, the series unleashes a stream of underwhelming foes that perish just as quickly as they're introduced. According to critics, Deadpool & Wolverine is a refreshing exception to this problem, featuring not one, but two well-crafted supervillains with genuine screen presence.

The film's duo of villains consists of Matthew Macfayden's Paradox, an over-zealous TVA agent, and Emma Corrin's Cassandra Nova, Professor X's evil estranged sister who rules over the wasteland of The Void. Corrin's Cassandra Nova has been offered heaps of praise by critics in particular, highlighting her ruthless superiority complex and terrifying powers. Both actors give performances strong enough to justify seeing the film in their own right , a welcome relief for a series infamous for its lackluster villains.

5 Deadpool & Wolverine Is Sufficiently Gory

"the mcu has never been this violent – and who knows if we’ll see such sights again." - cameron frew, dexerto.

Another less-than-savory aspect of Deadpool that warranted worry for being diluted in the MCU is his penchant for extreme violence. Consistently rated R, the Deadpool movies have consistently taken full advantage of their rating, delving into visceral and bloody action scenes that don't hold back in their exploration of human anatomy. Previous films exercised such incredible heights of gore that it was hard to beleive the MCU would be able to stomach bringing Deadpool into their world.

It's a relief, then, that reviewers have reported some eye-wateringly bloody violence on full display in Deadpool & Wolverine. As Cameron Frew of Dexerto states, " One action scene features an adamantium claw spitroast, another person gets their flesh ripped clean off ." It's a good thing that the Marvel Cinematic Universe understood not to water down the excessive violence Deadpool's action sequences have come to be known for, doing away with Wolverine's bloodless claw stabs in the majority of the X-Men movies.

4 Deadpool & Wolverine Acknowledges Logan's Perfect Ending

"a tribute to the past that’s far less morbid than it initially appears." - cain noble-davies, filmink.

Another understandable trepidation some die-hard comic book moviegoers may have going in to Deadpool & Wolverine is the exhumation of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine following the brilliant conclusion to Wolverine's arc that was Logan. Proper endings are rare in superhero cinema, and messing with the somber finality of that film to bring Wolverine back alongside Deadpool of all people is a proposition that shouldn't be taken lightly. Interestingly, reviewers have noted that Deadpool & Wolverine seems to understand this.

Deadpool & Wolverine sidesteps this with a technicality; after all, the Wolverine featured in the film is not the same one from the Fox universe.

Early on, Deadpool appears to literally dig up Wolverine's corpse from the ending of Logan, a macabre meta-commentary on his own film's willingness to revive such an iconic character after he was given a beautiful, bittersweet conclusion. However, Deadpool & Wolverine sidesteps this with a technicality; after all, the Wolverine featured in the film is not the same one from the Fox universe, being from a different timeline entirely. In either case, the fact that the film is willing to acknowledge the delicacy with which it brings back Jackman's character after Logan is a good sign.

3 Deadpool & Wolverine Has Some Of The MCU's Best Action Choreography

"a later one-on-one fight mostly confined to a minivan is one of the best action sequences the mcu has offered in years." - kyle logan, screenanarchy.

Despite spectacle being arguably a bigger aspect of their appeal than raw narrative prowess, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has sometimes struggled with crafting good action choreography. While some entries like Captain America: The Winter Soldier offer pulse-pounding depictions of hand-to-hand combat, other films over-rely on CGI, feeling too weightless in their fight scenes. According to critics, Deadpool & Wolverine just might bring new contenders for the MCU's best fight sequences .

It's true that the previous Deadpool films were intensely creative with their choreography, and director Shawn Levy seems to have kept this tradition alive with the third entry. Kyle Logan of Screenanarchy notes a single action setpiece in particular, set in a minivan, which offers a creative, claustrophibic fight that eschews the traditional conventions of MCU battles. Even if its other aspects were lackluster, Deadpool & Wolverine appears to be worth watching for the fights alone.

2 Hugh Jackman Hasn't Lost His Touch With Playing Wolverine

"jackman still finds the broken soul of his character, and the screenplay spares just enough time to let it flower." - christian toto, hollywoodintoto.com.

It's been seven years since Hugh Jackman last unsheathed his adamantium claws as Wolverine in Logan. Going into Deadpool & Wolverine, there was a not insignificant fan sentiment that the 55-year-old actor should be spiritually done headlining tentpole comic book blockbusters, and should be allowed to retire to his passion project musicals like The Greatest Showman. That being said, critics seem to assure that Hugh Jackman's performance in Deadpool & Wolverine is anything but tired.

In fact, Wolverine seems to form the brunt of the emotional core of the film, presenting a fundamentally broken variation of the iconic mutant that failed his own world. Many critics allege Jackman's performance to be one of the few earnestly successful elements of the film that isn't protected by a shield of sarcasm, offering an unflinchingly sincere internal journey in the midst of the carnage and comedy. It's unclear if Hugh Jackman would return for another Deadpool team-up , but his ability to play Wolverine clearly hasn't lost a single step.

1 Deadpool & Wolverine Has Some Deep-Cut Jokes And References

"i cannot in good conscience even write what films the audience will need to have seen, since that would spoil the effect of half the jokes in the movie when the viewers come to them." - grant watson, fictionmachine.

If there's one thing the Marvel Cinematic Universe has always been good about, it's how much the series trusts its audience. It's rare that appearances of extraneous characters or references to plot developments from other films are meticulously explained; rather, the universe has an implicit trust in its viewers that they'll be able to put the pieces together. According to reviews, Deadpool & Wolverine takes this to the extreme.

Even more alarmingly, some jokes even require knowledge of real-life drama revolving around the film's actors, the film being unafraid to make some deep cuts with its humor.

By all accounts, the film appears to be inundated with jokes that require years of background knowledge in Marvel properties to appreciate, with several possibly sailing over the heads of all but the most dedicated fans. Even more alarmingly, some jokes even require knowledge of real-life drama revolving around the film's actors, the film being unafraid to make some deep cuts with its humor. This is great for viewers in the know, but might hold back enjoyment for more casual viewers, perhaps explaining why Deadpool & Wolverine is only just clearing 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Ryan Reynolds returns in the title role of Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool, in “Deadpool 2,” a bleak and wrenching psychodrama that’s sure to confuse and infuriate fans of the original. The first “ Deadpool ,” directed by Tim Miller , was distinguished by its three-jokes-a-minute pacing and its reluctance to take the usual superhero origin cliches seriously. This film from stuntman turned director David Leitch (who debuted behind the camera with “ John Wick “) starts with a literal bang, with our mysteriously depressed hero immolating himself atop a deathbed of explosive fuel canisters, then works its way backwards to detail the trauma that made him sad enough to kill himself. Frankly, I was stunned that Leitch, Reynolds and company had the nerve to kill off such a bankable wiseacre in the first five minutes of their film, then devote the rest of their running time to supporting characters’ attempts to grieve and move on with their lives, their struggles captured in bleached-out images more commonly associated with DC movies. The emotional peak is a long sequence of Wade’s widow Vanessa ( Morena Baccarin ) taking the hero’s now-useless red uniform down from a hanger in the closet, inhaling her late partner’s scent, and bursting into tears while the soundtrack plays a minor key a cappella version of Boston’s “More Than a Feeling.”

OK, obviously none of that happens, except for Wade blowing himself up—and if you’ve ever read a comic book in your life, or seen a movie, or drawn breath, you know that a superhero film doesn’t start with the hero offing himself unless it plans to undo the damage as soon as possible. “ After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste.” That’s how 20th Century Fox’s official website summarized the plot of this movie when it first came out, which should give you some small indication of the level of sobriety the filmmakers have brought to this venture. Even when “Deadpool 2” is being serious, or trying to fool you into thinking it’s being serious, there’s a gleam in its eye that gives the game away.

The script, credited to Reynolds, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick , finds the mutant Deadpool meandering his way to the X-Mansion and joining various X-Men members—including Domino ( Zazie Beetz ) and Colossus (computer effects plus the voice of Stefan Kapičić )—as they try to protect an alienated, rebellious teen mutant called Firefist ( Julian Dennison ) from assassination by the Terminator, er Looper, er mercenary-from-the-future Matthew Cable ( Josh Brolin , aka Young Nick Nolte Returned, playing his second Marvel character in less than a month ).

There are striking similarities between certain, um, elements in this film and “Avengers: Infinity War”—a fluke of timing, surely; the movies don’t even share a studio (yet). Among them: a thorough working-out of the old, mostly rhetorical comic book question, “How dead is dead?” “Deadpool 2” treats the topic about as thoughtfully as it can, without ever, for one millisecond, seeming as if it might look real suffering in the eye. As in the first “Deadpool,” the backbone of which was an unexpected cancer diagnosis, Wade and other characters suffer loss and disappointment, but nothing that can’t be fixed or amended through machinations that are already implicitly promised in the hero’s opening narration. There’s some unpleasantness, but the cheeky dialogue and cheerfully cynical voice-over ensure that we’ll never have to marinate in it. It’s just not that kind of film. More so than any other superhero movie, including the original “Deadpool,” this one is the R-rated comics equivalent of one of those knowingly featherweight Bob Hope and Bing Crosby “Road” movies (for a full list, click here ), in which Hope and Crosby’s fast-talking vagabonds wriggled out of tight spots through sheer shamelessness and verbosity, pausing to break the fourth wall and tell the viewer that now might be a good time to go out for popcorn.

The result feels a bit like a lavishly produced, superhero- and supervillain-stocked standup comedy special, with fight scenes, chases and explosions spliced into footage of the hero telling you about the wild couple of weeks he just had. Reynolds repeats the original “Deadpool” dynamic of giving the movie at least five times what it gives him in return, turning neediness, self-pity, desperation and narcissism into different kinds of comic fuel. There are constant acknowledgements that you’re watching a movie, and a formulaic one at that (right before the the start of the film’s third act, our boy declares that if his plan succeeds, everybody gets to go home early because there’ll be no need for a third act). There are seemingly random (but not really) pop culture references, including a comparison of the melodies of “Do You Want to Build a Snowman” from “ Frozen ” and “Papa, Can You Hear Me?” from “ Yentl .” There’s shtick galore, including quite a bit of slapstick with a body count, plus some retroactive criticism of the Marvel brand’s attempts to be capital-I Important (“We’re the X-Men, a dated metaphor for racism in the ’60s!” Deadpool declares, right before a big setpiece). There’s even a protracted bit of mugging near the end that’s reminiscent of early Jim Carrey .

I originally agreed with this site’s less-than-enthused review of the first movie, which was “edgy” in an obvious, trying-too-hard way, occasionally wearing its “R” rating with all the misplaced pride of a middle school boy sporting a chocolate milk mustache as if it were a Sam Elliott-style soup strainer (although— kudos !—the details of Wade’s cancer treatment and sex life with Vanessa were truly unexpected for a film that expensive). But the array of PG-13 superhero films that preceded and followed, and that all seemed hypnotized by their own ashy solemnity to one degree or another, made the original “Deadpool” feel like a necessary counterweight. The more often I stumbled across it on TV over the past few years, the more I appreciated it. (The inept and obvious “ Suicide Squad ,” which came out a few months later, showed how not to do that kind of movie.)

And there’s something to be said for a film that knows what it is, and is serenely content to be that thing. Except for a few individual lines and sight gags, a brilliantly over-the-top action-comedy sequence near the midsection, and some characteristically sharp performances (including the one by Brolin, who imbues what might’ve otherwise been a granite-jawed killer meathead with recognizable humanity) there’s not much to fondly recall here. But since “Deadpool 2” shows no sign of wanting to rewrite a whole genre with its audacity, we might as well concede that it does the job it apparently wants to do with professionalism and flair, and that the faster we end this piece, the faster you can go on social media and complain about it.

Matt Zoller Seitz

Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor-at-Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.

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At this point, the superhero industrial complex has become so monolithic and profitable that it would be totally understandable if its beneficiaries just continued to play it safe. After all, why mess with a winning formula? That’s why you have to applaud a film like Deadpool . It doesn’t have the most adrenalized action sequences or the deepest origin story. What it has is the balls to mess with the formula and have some naughty, hard-R fun. It’s a superhero film for the wiseasses shooting spitballs in the back of the school bus.

Introduced in the early ’90s as a snark-spewing antihero spun off from The New Mutants , Deadpool is the alter ego of Wade Wilson, a former mercenary who develops special powers like accelerated healing. Ryan Reynolds first played the character in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine , but like everything else about that film, it was easily forgettable. Plus, Reynolds’ brief screen time only hinted at the character’s motormouthed brand of acerbic anarchy. In Deadpool , he’s finally center stage, and Reynolds fires off so many rim-shot insults in the first five minutes that he comes across like Don Rickles in spandex. For a while you find yourself giggling not because the jokes are so great (although some of them are), but because you can’t believe the Marvel brass agreed to gamble on such an edgy, profane protagonist.

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Briskly directed by Tim Miller, yet another relatively untested director who’s been given a surprisingly quick call-up to the majors, Deadpool is your basic superhero origin story. You know, wisecracking tough guy meets equally wisecracking tough girl (Morena Baccarin), they fall deeply in love and have adventurous sex, he gets turned into a hideous mutant freak by a British villain (Ed Skrein), and payback is sought so he can be reunited with his love. The plot, though, is really just the scaffolding for Reynolds’ hunky, merry-prankster charisma (good luck resisting it) and his bottomless arsenal of rat-a-tat one-liners and fourth-wall-breaking asides. The thing is, the movie’s verbal and visual gags come so fast and furious that, after a while, it gets exhausting — like being stuck in an elevator with Jim Carrey.

The jokes in Deadpool are delivered with such a sly, smart-aleck wink that it takes a while to figure out that it’s selling a jokey tone rather than actual jokes half the time. But it’s got the perfect salesman in Reynolds. Even with a face that’s been horrifically crispified into what his pal ( Silicon Valley ’s T.J. Miller) likens to the offspring of an avocado that had sex with an older avocado, Reynolds and his character are a blast of laughing gas in a genre that tends to take itself way too seriously. Deadpool may not be a cutting-edge comedy, but it is a cutting-edge Marvel movie. And right now, that’s something. B

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For the multitudes who feared that, after Fantastic Four, Fox might simply be rummaging too far down into Marvel’s basement in search of a few more scraps of lucre, the joke’s on them. It takes a little while to get in gear — or perhaps just to adjust to what’s going on here — but once it does, Deadpool drops trou to reveal itself as a really raunchy, very dirty and pretty funny goof on the entire superhero ethos, as well as the first Marvel film to irreverently trash the brand. Just what anyone suffering from genre burnout might appreciate at this point, as well as a big in-joke treat for all but the most reverent fanboys, this film looks to be hitting the market at just the right time — with Christmas releases now in the rearview mirror — to rake in some sweet returns.

Given the surprising amount of nudity, raw sex jokes and nonstop underlined and bold-faced, racy dialogue, it’s amusing to picture the countless pubescent boys who will be plotting a way to get into this extremely R-rated romp. Not only does Ryan Reynolds give it his all, shall we say, but the conversations here mostly resemble the sort of thing you’d expect to hear around last call at a Bakersfield biker bar. Or, more to the point, what you’d get if you mashed up the dialogue from the two previous scripts written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, Zombieland and G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

Release date: Feb 12, 2016

Last seen decapitated and heading down the chimney of a nuclear plant at the end of X-Men: Origins in 2009, Wade Wilson/Deadpool has always seemed like a tough nut to crack in terms of centering a mass-audience film on him. A brash and brazen mercenary, he’s an anti-hero with a film noir lead’s taste for the louche and low-down, as well as a character who, in narrative terms, stands out due to his predilection for breaking the fourth wall. Whether he could make the grade as the leading man of a franchise of his own was always a question, which partly accounts for the prolonged wait-and-see on Marvel’s part.

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Now a freak behind his mask and form-fitting outfit, Wade/Deadpool has it out for Ajax, but their ultimate face-off, previewed in the opening scene, must wait until after Deadpool teams up with two unlikely cohorts: the metallic giant Colossus, who does what he can to protect him, and a rebellious teen who can’t possibly live up to her name, Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand). For his part, Ajax has his own one-woman hit squad in Angel Dust (mixed martial arts champ and Haywire star Gina Carano).

The final showdown is very small potatoes by Marvel standards and, of course, predictable, but compensates with humor, which is what floats the entire project. The script has the feel of something gone over again and again and yet again to double the number of jokes each time. The machine-gun approach doesn’t always hit, but it does enough so that, in the end, the number of laughs is pretty high.

Beyond even what Robert Downey Jr. has done in the Iron Man series, Reynolds lets fly here in a manic, sly, self-conscious way that leaves you not quite knowing what hit you: the irreverence slides quickly into lewd comic territory; the inside jokes about Marvel in particular and pop culture in general come fast and furious; the fourth-wall breakage is disarming; and the actor’s occasional fey, high-pitched voicings add yet another strange element. As in the presence of motor-mouthed comedians, you either sit there stone-faced or eventually capitulate to the cascade of weirdness and the fertility of wayward minds unleashed.

A longtime commercials and visual effects executive and creative director, Tim Miller hasn’t so much directed his first feature as liberated much of what has been bubbling under the surface of superhero films for a long time; it answers a lot of the questions you were afraid to ask.

For the record, Deadpool features one of Stan Lee’s best Marvel cameos — it’s actually funny.

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Production companies: Marvel, Kinberg Genre, The Donners’ Company Distributor: Fox Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller, Gina Carano, Leslie Uggams, Brianna Hildebrand, Karan Soni, Jed Rees, Stefan Kapicic, Randal Reeder, Isaac C. Singleton Jr. Director: Tim Miller Screenwriters: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick Producers: Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds, Lauren Shuler Donner Executive producers: Stan Lee, John J. Kelly, Jonathon Komack, Martin, Aditya Sood, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick Director of photography: Ken Seng Production designer: Sean Haworth Costume designer: Angus Strathie Editor: Julian Clarke Music: Tom Holkenborg Visual effects supervisor: Jonathan Rothbart Casting: Ronna Kress

Rated R, 108 minutes

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Deadpool review: Deadpool isn't reinventing the superhero genre. It's making it better.

by Alex Abad-Santos

Loving a new Ryan Reynolds movie, and having that movie be Deadpool , feels like the inverse of a paper cut. It's like snuggling a chocolate chip cookie–scented golden retriever in a pillow fort at Chrissy Teigen and John Legend's house.

The whole thing feels so damn nice and natural because it’s been such a long time since Reynolds has done anything anyone cared about. Not to mention since 20th Century Fox, despite its unintentional but strong argument that the movie rights for all Marvel characters should go back to Marvel , managed to spin something so wickedly fresh and aggressively raunchy that it gives you faith in the studio’s next couple of superhero films.

Deadpool is essentially the world’s first superhero fan movie.

The film is an inside joke aimed to please devout comics nuts, the people who’ve followed the sardonic, self-aware mercenary with a penchant for cock jokes through the pages of various Marvel comic books. But you don’t need to be an expert on the source material to keep up, because there’s no pretense with Deadpool , no deeper concern than having ultraviolent fun.

In both the comics and the new movie, Deadpool’s primary reason for existence is to point out how lame superheroes can be while turning villains into human shawarma. And director Tim Miller and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick eschew the idea that there must be anything grander to a superhero story than that. In contrast to, say, Captain America: Winter Soldier — which was touted as a “political thriller” — they don’t feel any pressure to insist that Deadpool is deep.

Miller, Reese, and Wernick instead offer a dare: to love a superhero movie that unabashedly embraces everything we really love about superhero movies — ridiculous violence, wry one-liners, and a hero we can honestly root for. Fans of Deadpool know the character as a rude, lewd figure who’s fully aware of his place in the world of superheroes and who routinely skewers his status rather than exalting it, and the movie expertly captures that spirit.

But even though Deadpool seeks to make fun of its own genre — mainly by pointing out how silly superheroes can be — that doesn’t mean it isn’t a superhero movie, because it so very is. Maybe the best kind.

Make no mistake: Deadpool is a superhero movie — and a damn good one too

There are several moments in Deadpool when we’re reminded that the title character isn’t a superhero, and that the movie isn’t a traditional superhero film. Deadpool curses. He kills people. He knows the difference between Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy’s respective turns as Professor Charles Xavier in various X-Men films.

But at first glance, the movie’s plot could very well pass for a methodical reconstruction of Captain America or Spider-Man rather than the deconstruction it seems to be. It hits all the beats of a superhero film.

Deadpool, a.k.a. Wade Wilson (Reynolds), is a highly skilled assassin who has no real direction in life; he doesn’t care about anything other than his next kill. Everything changes when he finds true love — but then he’s hit with the life-altering gut punch that goes by the name of cancer. And when his newfound mutant powers kick in and disfigure him into something resembling a golem made out of ringworm, he seeks vengeance on Ajax ( Ed Skrein ), the man he believes made him this way.

If this were any other film, any other predictable 107-minute journey in which a hero exacts revenge on the man who wronged him, this origin story wouldn’t be worth watching. But this is Deadpool .

What breaks Deadpool free from the standard superhero-film template is a scrappy performance from Reynolds. Eight years ago, Reynolds (now 39) was on the path to be a leading man and an Avenger after transforming rom-coms like The Proposal and Definitely, Maybe into megahits, but his career hit a rough patch after the 2011 clunker Green Lantern .

There’s something poetic about Reynolds’s casting in Deadpool . It’s impossible to watch the movie without knowing how bad his career floundered after Green Lantern , as there are a couple of outright references to it in the film. And it’s fitting that a man who has every right to be bitter with the superhero industrial complex is playing a comic book character who was created to buck it.

Reynolds is back in superhero shape, and Deadpool — perhaps the first explicit superhero paean to the male figure — takes every chance to remind us of that fact. It’s as if we’re the senile old woman in The Notebook, and the only things that could bring us back to the present are Ryan Reynolds’s thighs.

The man of many muscles commits to a goofy freedom in Deadpool , with no worries about throwing himself into the movie’s rambunctious physical comedy, even though it involves a weird baby hand and emoting through a red mask with diamond white eyes to talk about Wolverine’s smooth testicles.

Reese and Wernick give Reynolds plenty of filth to play with, and they honor Deadpool’s salacious source material. But even with the raunch and gore, there really isn’t anything about the character’s origin story or his movie that sets Deadpool apart from the rest of the superhero filmdom. That isn’t a bad thing. Thanks to an uncanny ability to hit all the usual superhero beats and a charismatic and hilarious performance by Reynolds, Deadpool more than satisfies.

Deadpool understands its antihero so well

When you look at the best superhero movies, the motor that drives them is a fundamental understanding of the central character. In the Dark Knight trilogy, Christopher Nolan knew what motivated Batman’s violence. In The Avengers, Joss Whedon figured out the familial dynamic of the titular team. And in Guardians of the Galaxy , James Gunn and Nicole Perlman homed in on the fear of loneliness felt by Star-Lord and the rest of the Guardians.

That same kind of understanding exists in Deadpool .

Deadpool (the character) was created in the ‘90s — an era when comic books were bent on pushing the limits of violence, sex, and cynicism. And perhaps his greatest power is knowing he’s a comic book character. Deadpool regularly breaks the fourth wall, and that self-awareness allows him (and his creators) to worship and mock, love and hate the genre he’s trapped in.

While Reese and Wernick pepper Deadpool ’s script with fan-focused inside jokes, there’s never a moment where you feel punished if you didn’t read the source comics. At the same time, the movie maintains a fidelity to fans looking for everything they’ve come to expect from the character. That’s a testament to Miller, Reese, and Wernick’s storytelling. They’ve made a real effort to grasp the character’s quirks.

Miller’s action sequences are as crackling as they are hilarious. His shots are composed clearly, and the action is unfussy — perhaps chaotic, even — but everything is easy enough to follow. And the violence and gore are mitigated by a prickly sense of humor; one sequence even has Deadpool shot in the butthole.

The film’s jokes are pristine raunch, covering everything from oral sex with Freddy Krueger to the odor of Mama June — the kind of off-color jeers Dane Cook wishes he could write. It delves into the depths of pop culture, and its dialogue sounds like the slapdash, cognizant cadence known as Whedon-speak, but juiced up on testosterone.

When Deadpool ’s comedic gore collides with its salty humor at the proper angle, magic happens. It’s magic that captures the spirit of the character, but it also pushes him and the genre into unknown and welcome territory.

Deadpool ’s irreverence makes up for the film’s flaws

Deadpool ’s frenetic pace and chaos strives to be a comic book brought to life. And it mostly succeeds.

The film’s biggest weakness, if it has one, is in its supporting characters — there’s just not a lot for them to do. Deadpool’s fellow superpowered beings — Colossus ( Stefan Kapicic ), Negasonic Teenage Warhead ( Brianna Hildebrand ), and Angel Dust ( Gina Carano ) — mostly just stay out of his way, though Colossus and Negasonic each have their moments. T.J. Miller is effective as Deadpool/Wade Wilson’s BFF Weasel, but he feels like he was just ported over from HBO’s Silicon Valley , where he plays a startup bro. Ajax, the movie’s main villain, is sinister (and good-looking), but his mutant ability — not being able to feel pain — doesn’t make him feel like much of a threat.

And it would have been nice for a superhero movie that vocally wants to subvert the genre to present Morena Baccarin ’s Vanessa, the love of Wade’s life, as more than just your standard superhero girlfriend. Baccarin is winning in the few moments we see her, but it’s a shame that she spends the majority of her scenes comforting or sexing Wade.

Meanwhile, Deadpool ’s look reveals its low budget. While the film’s price tag hasn’t been officially revealed, it was reportedly around $50 million (compared with, say, Ant-Man ’s $130 million ). Without cash to burn, Deadpool doesn’t have the gloss of your typical superhero jaunt — the fight scenes are smaller, the superpowers are less dazzling, and the sets are limited.

But Deadpool ’s irreverence and DGAF attitude is admirable. Deadpool isn’t the Avengers. He’s a one-man show. And that one man deserves at least one more show. Or at least one more cock joke.

Deadpool opens in theaters Friday, February 12.

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Deadpool & Wolverine is for hard-core fans of superhero films, not casuals—and certainly not the nonbelievers.

Deadpool lying on the ground in Wolverine's shadow in “Deadpool & Wolverine”

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The first Deadpool film , released in 2016, broke lots of rules. It was R-rated and hyper-violent, but it was also self-aware in the Family Guy way, frequently puncturing the fourth wall and mocking the seriousness of the superhero genre. Deadpool, played by Ryan Reynolds, knew he was in a movie—and a dumb one, at that. This intentionally juvenile humor bred massive success, and by 2018’s Deadpool 2 , our quippy antihero knew he was in a cinematic universe —albeit the junky one run by 20th Century Studios that quivered alongside the ruthless success of Disney’s Marvel enterprise. (For those of you who haven’t relentlessly kept up: The film rights to the different Marvel superheroes are owned by different studios, and it’s generally accepted that Marvel Studios—which is owned by Disney—has made the better movies.)

Times change, corporate acquisitions happen , and now we have Deadpool & Wolverine , in which Deadpool not only knows he’s in a cinematic universe but also wants to go to a better one. It’s an almost entirely metatextual movie—a series of Variety articles given life, crammed in a Lycra suit and encouraged to curse with impunity. Shawn Levy’s film exists to properly usher Deadpool into Disney’s squeaky-clean Marvel Cinematic Universe, helped along by the wearily professional Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), dragged out of retirement (and death) for one last rodeo. But Deadpool & Wolverine is also a gleeful funeral for all the stunted series and cinematic universes the MCU has squashed over the years, even referencing long-rumored projects that never came to fruition.

Yes, the film is razzing the corporate frameworks around these beloved (or sometimes despised) enterprises. But it also assumes that audiences know as much as Deadpool does inside his own movie. Deadpool is very aware that the MCU mastermind Kevin Feige is his new producer, that his jokes about cocaine won’t fly under Disney’s radar, and that Hugh Jackman is both too old for this nonsense and very good at singing Broadway numbers. At times, the movie more resembles a jokey sizzle reel at CinemaCon than it does actual cinema. For viewers who spend a lot of their time online, soaking up the discourse generated by insider-fan accounts and message boards, all of this will seem warmly familiar. But good luck if you’re coming in with no prior knowledge.

Nevertheless. Feige’s mainstream instincts are easy to detect here. The prior Deadpool films were scuzzy and cobbled together, even as the budget grew; the cameos from other Marvel characters felt half-hearted and perfunctory, inclusions for Deadpool to roll his eyes at, not for fans to cheer over. Deadpool & Wolverine , on the other hand, has that bland MCU sheen that makes all of its movies look expensive but nonthreatening, happily accepting of mediocrity rather than attempting something artsy or daring. Similarly, what passes for the narrative stakes have been honed to fan-service perfection, with characters spouting sci-fi gibberish about how characters such as Wolverine are “anchor entities” that keep universes going, essentially proclaiming that superheroes are the most important things imaginable.

The MCU has undoubtedly lost some commercial and critical momentum, but because Deadpool & Wolverine is so firmly focused on satisfying the nerds, I predict it’ll crush at the box office. The familiar presences of Reynolds and Jackman will definitely help; I’ve certainly grown tired of the former’s motor-mouthed wisecracking in every single movie, but he’s very comfortable with Deadpool’s profane monologues. Jackman, meanwhile, can deliver gravitas in his sleep, even as his role here diminishes the glorious swan song he received in 2017’s Logan , in which he sort of went out like Clint Eastwood. ( Deadpool & Wolverine is aware of this too, and makes several jokes about it.)

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Shall I attempt to describe the plot of this jokey mash of cutaway gags and PowerPoints? Very well. Deadpool, a scarred mercenary with a healing factor, has largely drifted toward retirement and a life of hanging out with his pals from the previous two movies. But then he’s tossed into a cosmic in-between zone run by the Time Variance Authority (from, uh, TV’s Loki ), the bureaucrats managing every cinematic universe seen and unseen. A fussy stuffed suit named Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen) tells Deadpool that his world is vanishing and irrelevant, but that he’s been chosen for a brighter future: the MCU, where mysterious overlords have decided he belongs. So he goes on a timeline-hopping adventure, assisted by a particularly drunk and miserable Wolverine on the way, to try to save his friends from deletion.

My head hurt typing that out, and it’s probably just as inscrutable to read, but it also doesn’t really matter. Deadpool is here, Wolverine is grunting alongside him, and they stab lots of folks and make lots of jokes while exciting actors make nostalgic cameo appearances. It’s a movie that’s playing to the back of the house—assuming the house is Comic-Con’s Hall H—and it’ll get lots of laughs in return. Can Deadpool himself save the faltering MCU? Probably not. But with four more MCU movies slated for release in 2025, it’s a little relieving to watch someone poke fun at how pompous they’ve become—as much fun as Feige allows, that is.

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There’s a lot of huffing and puffing in Deadpool, but the only one who can blow down your resistance to yet another screwed-up citizen of the Marvel universe is Ryan Reynolds. Armed with an unlimited arsenal of delicious snark, Reynolds has a blast playing Wade Wilson, the Special Forces operative turned mercenary turned cancer patient turned medical experiment turned Deadpool, a scar-faced mutant with a penchant for superhero drag and a mouth on him.

As played by Reynolds, Deadpool looks at the camera and talks right to us. Nothing is sacred, including the opening credits which refer to the film’s creative team as “tools” and “asshats” and name-check Reynolds as People ‘s Sexiest Man Alive. Screenwriters Rhett Rheese and Paul Wernick turn the comic created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza into their personal playing field for R-rated dirty talk and viscera-ripping violence. The PG-13 timidity of so many Marvel movies has made some of us hungry to see depraved crazies at the controls. Now we’ve got them. Deadpool has no off-switch. This dude keeps cracking wise even when he’s plotting vengeance against Ajax (Ed Skrein), the villain who made his face look like corn-beef hash.

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That’s one of the reasons Deadpool wears a mask and keeps away from Vanessa ( Homeland ‘s Morena Baccarin), a strip-joint hooker to whom he has pledged his heart. Believe it or not, Baccarin and Reynolds make you care about this hot couple from hell. And T.J. Miller gets in his licks as Deadpool’s bartender buddy from his Wade days. Newbie director Tim Miller keeps the action coming in gory chunks, mixing in appearances from bad-girl Angel Dust (Gina Carano) and two X-Men — Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand). Deadpool keeps ripping the studio for cheapness since it only provided two X-Men, but provides a nasty Wolverine impression you won’t want to miss.

I gotta tell you, this movie’s junky feel is part of its charm. Sure it goes on too long and repetition dulls its initial cleverness. Still, Deadpool is party time for action junkies and Reynolds may just have found the role that makes his career.

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Review: Ryan Reynolds Smirks Out Loud in Deadpool

Deadpool is the Marvel character for people who think they’re too smart for comic books but read them anyway. He’s sarcastic but also prone to self-mockery, and he takes pride in breaking the fourth wall: He seems to know it’s ridiculous to be circumscribed by a comic-book panel, so why not bust out of it now and then?

If you’re going to make a Deadpool movie —as first-time director Tim Miller has— Ryan Reynolds is the guy to play him. Reynolds delivers every line with a smirk you can hear—a good thing because Deadpool’s face is completely obscured by a stretchy red mask, the better to hide his scarred, mottled visage. There’s a story behind that face—because isn’t there always? In flashback we learn that Deadpool used to be smart-alecky mercenary Wade Wilson, who is diagnosed with incurable cancer just after becoming engaged to the love of his life, Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). Enter evil face-mangler Ajax (Ed Skrein)—also known by his far less sexy real name, Francis—who mangles Wade’s face after promising to turn him into a cancer-free mutant with superpowers. Wade becomes the hypercynical Deadpool, running amok as he chases Francis to get revenge for his eternal bad-face day. In between skewering thugs with his trademark twin swords and letting the wisecracks fly (“I’m about to do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the late nineties”), our masked misanthrope reflects, with unseen but surely misty eyes, on how much he misses his lost love. The sentimental hokum is the best thing about the picture: The violence may be abundant, but it’s not particularly gratifying, and the repetitive plot mechanics don’t help. Deadpool, intended as a spiky antidote to superhero oversaturation, ends up impaling only itself.

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Deadpool & Wolverine – 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review

October 24, 2024

When I reviewed Deadpool & Wolverine in July, I said the film “is pure fun and heart, featuring outstanding performances by Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.” My views on the movie remain relatively the same upon watching it repeatedly. The X-Men franchise has long been a cornerstone of superhero cinema, with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool standing out as iconic characters. Deadpool & Wolverine marks their highly anticipated entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it delivers beyond expectations.

Ryan Reynolds once again shines as Wade Wilson/Deadpool, offering his signature blend of quick wit, fourth-wall-breaking humor, and relentless pop culture references. Every quip lands perfectly, creating a nonstop comedic experience that leaves audiences in stitches. On the other hand, Hugh Jackman’s portrayal of Wolverine is more reluctant and grizzled than ever, embodying the character comic fans have awaited for years. His performance is familiar and refreshingly nuanced, adding depth to the story. Emma Corrin’s portrayal of the villain, Cassandra Nova, is another standout. Her chilling intensity raises the stakes, creating a compelling antagonist that enhances the narrative.

What makes Deadpool & Wolverine brilliant is its ability to balance humor with deeper themes of redemption and identity. While Deadpool’s antics keep the laughs coming, the movie’s emotional core, revolving around the evolving relationship between Wolverine and Deadpool, adds a layer of complexity. Their chemistry, filled with sharp banter, thrilling action scenes, and emotionally resonant moments, shows how much these characters need each other, even if they won’t admit it. The movie also pays tribute to the Fox era of X-Men , packing in plenty of fan service without overshadowing the plot.

From action to humor to heartfelt moments, Deadpool & Wolverine is a true crowd-pleaser that will thoroughly satisfy fans of both characters. It’s a summer blockbuster filled with fun, heart, and unforgettable performances from its lead stars.

Movie Review: 5/5 atoms

Deadpool & Wolverine is available on Ultra HD Blu-ray in a native 4K, HEVC / H.265, Dolby Vision/HDR10 presentation with a 2.39:1 aspect ratio. The brightness is well-balanced, with sunlight and other light sources shining brightly without overwhelming the darker scenes. This balance complements the deep, inky black levels that maintain exceptional detail even in the shadows, allowing you to see fine textures like hair and fabric. The richly saturated colors offer a natural vibrancy that enhances the viewing experience without feeling exaggerated. In terms of clarity, the level of detail is superb, with textures on Deadpool and Wolverine’s suits standing out.

Video Review: 5/5 atoms

Emma Corrin as Cassandra Nova in Deadpool & Wolverine

Deadpool & Wolverine is available on Ultra HD Blu-ray with a Dolby Atmos or a 7.1 Dolby TrueHD audio presentation if Atmos is not supported. This review will cover the Blu-ray’s Dolby Atmos mix. While the sound placement across the soundstage effectively matches the on-screen action, it doesn’t offer much playful movement or sweeping audio effects. Not to mention, overhead effects are used sparingly, primarily during key scenes like Alioth’s attack on Cassandra’s Ant-Man base or specific musical sequences. The atmospheric sounds, such as the voices inside Wolverine’s head while Cassandra probes him, are also distinct and immersive. Even the soundtrack and Rob Simonsen’s score sound layered across the soundstage, particularly the choir rendition of “Like a Prayer,” sound epic. Dialogue remains consistently clear, even during intense action scenes or when the score swells, ensuring every line is audible without being drowned out by the surrounding chaos.

Audio Review: 4.5/5 atoms

Special Features

Deadpool & Wolverine has the following bonus feature on the Ultra HD disc:

Audio Commentary by Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds

However, you can find the rest of the bonus features on the HD Blu-ray disc:

Finding Madonna: Making the Oner
Practical Approach: Celebrating the Art of Ray Chan
Loose Ends: The Legacy Heroes
Dr. Deadpool
Product Review
Wade is Back
Elevator Ride
Daddy’s In Love

Features Assessment

The audio commentary by director Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds is a must-listen. Their joyful discussion covers a wide array of topics ranging from the cast to jokes and action sequences. It’s definitely a fun and informative track that every fan should listen to.

“Finding Madonna: Making the Oner” is a 7-minute featurette that dives into the production of the film’s climactic side-scrolling action scene. In it, they discuss how they integrated the actors, stunt teams, and Madonna’s iconic song. “Practical Approach: Celebrating the Art of Ray Chan” offers a 10-minute look at the film’s production design, with Chan detailing the creation of the film’s various locations and interiors.

“Loose Ends” brings back major hero cameos, with the actors reflecting on their return to the film. At the same time, “Wolverine” features Hugh Jackman, who discusses his return to the character and how they reimagined Wolverine for this film.

“Deadpool’s Fun Sack 3” is a brief but amusing 4-minute PSA for testicular cancer led by Ryan Reynolds. Next, there’s the must-watch 5-minute gag reel, which is full of missed cues, flubbed lines, and plenty of laughter from the set. There are also a bunch of deleted scenes, though the brief runtime hints that more could be left unseen.

Special Features Review: 4/5 atoms

Overall, Deadpool & Wolverine is a highly entertaining addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It blends humor, heart, and action with standout performances from Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. Also, the video transfer and Atmos mix are equally stellar, and the bonus features provide fans with fun and insightful behind-the-scenes content, from commentary to featurettes and gag reels.

Overall Review: /5 atoms

Deadpool & Wolverine is now available in stores on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray.

This Blu-ray was provided by Buena Vista Home Entertainment for review purposes.

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Lohnt sich Deadpool & Wolverine im Kino? Erste Reviews geben klare Antwort

Lohnt sich Deadpool & Wolverine im Kino? Erste Reviews geben klare Antwort

Ab jetzt könnt ihr überall in den hiesigen Kinos Deadpool & Wolverine sehen. Der neue MCU-Film holt gleich zwei berüchtigte Helden zurück auf die Leinwand. Wie gut das klappt, verraten uns die ersten Kritiken zum Film.

Deadpool & Wolverine begeistert Fans, macht es aber nicht jedem Recht

Momentan scheiden sich bei Deadpool & Wolverine noch die Geister. Während einige große Zeitungen wie The New York Times nur eine Wertung von 60/100 Prozent vergeben, sind insbesondere Fans begeistert. Aus den Kritiken selbst lässt sich das zumindest ein wenig erklären: Deadpool & Wolverine scheint so voll mit Easter Eggs und Meta-Witzen zu sein, dass der Film ohne Vorkenntnisse nur schlecht funktioniert.

Und das muss ja nichts Schlimmes sein. Hier eine Auswahl an deutschen und internationalen Kritiken :

Deadpool & Wolverine ist ganz anders als erwartet, aber irgendwie trotzdem genau das, was ich wollte und in vielerlei Hinsicht so unbeschreiblich, dass man den Film einfach gesehen haben muss. Ich habe selten so gelacht! Keine Zahlenwertung. (Quelle: Andreas Engelhardt bei kino.de )

Gruseliger Kino-Hit: Neuer Nicolas-Cage-Film verstört Kritiker und Fans

Deadpool & Wolverine ist ein ‘Deadpool’-Film, was bedeutet, dass er unhöflich und respektlos, lustig und ekelhaft, schräg und ein bisschen süß ist. Es macht Spaß, Reynolds und Jackman zuzusehen, und das zum Teil, weil ihre Charaktere auf der Leinwand sich so extrem von ihren Charakteren hinter der Leinwand unterscheiden. 60/100 (Alissa Wilkinson bei The New York Times )

Der Film ist so kurzsichtig auf die Idee fixiert, Marvel sei eine endlos faszinierende Soap Opera, dass man sich fragen muss, ob er in fünf Jahren überhaupt noch irgendeinen Sinn ergibt. 1/5 (Robbie Collin bei Telegraph )

Unsere Kollegen von kino.de hatten ein sehr amüsanten Interview mit den Deadpool-&-Wolverine-Stars Hugh Jackman und Ryan Reynolds:

Über Geschmack kann gestritten werden

Beim Durchwühlen der unterschiedlichen Kritiken fällt eines auf: Besonders der hohe Gewaltgrad in Deadpool & Wolverine sowie eine nicht sehr tiefgehende Story werden von einigen Reviewern kritisiert. Zudem scheint der Film – wie oben schon angedeutet – schlicht nur für jemanden zu funktionieren, der sich intensiv mit dem MCU und den X-Men-Filmen von Fox beschäftigt hat.

Ob das einen schlechten Film ausmacht oder ihr lieber den zahlreichen begeisterten Fans glauben wollt, liegt natürlich bei euch. Insgesamt solltet ihr einen unterhaltsamen Blockbuster mit jeder Menge Meta-Witzen erwarten: Nicht mehr und nicht weniger. Für Marvel-, Deadpool- und X-Men-Fans sollte sich der Kinobesuch allemal lohnen.

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