Is the MCU back from the dead? - Deadpool Wolverine Review

Deadpool And Wolverine is already smashing box office records to become the biggest R rated opening weekend of all time. And in general critics and fans seem to have responded well to the return of Hugh Jackman's Logan, the many cameos including Chris Evan's Johnn Storm, Wesley Snipes' Blade, Dafne Keen as X-23, Jennifer Garner as Electra, Channing Tatum's Gambit and more including Henry Cavill. What do all this mean for the future of the MCU? Is this more than just a one off leading into the return of Robert Downey Jr as Doctor Doom? I dunno but out review (taken from our podcast The Weekly Planet) gets into all of that. Thanks for listening?










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[Brosepphyy]

Everybody’s so focused on CGI wolverine after the bus scene nobody has questioned why loads of deadpool decided to just get on a bus midway through a fight

[wyldweasel]

Danny Devito as 'Comic Accurate Wolverine' would've been the best cameo

[oweeenie]

My fav part was when Wolverine simply refers to Deadpool as “mouth” 😂

[quirkyvfxx]

Little known fun fact: Wolverine’s costume was originally created with the brown color instead of blue, however it wouldn’t have stood out as much with many of their set backgrounds. They realized it would be too expensive and time consuming to create an entire new suit so the idea was to scrape off all of the brown layer and replace it with the blue color... This resulted in the movie being given the working title Blue Harvest.

Coincidentally, that was also the working title for Star Wars Episode 6 Return of the Jedi

[yashabreslove]

It wasn’t perfect, but I happened to greatly enjoy Deadpool 3: They Punch for a Bit (and then they’re Mates)

[GroundhogJay]

I definitely think it was like a loving homage. They may not have all filmed together and, yes, the plot is rather thin, but I think all the cameos play into the themes of D&W -- about wanting to matter and getting a proper ending. And I think, in that regard, each of the cameos got badass moments and a chance to shine without being a joke. Nobody sets out to be a bad or forgettable version of a hero, so to see the outcasts get to be world saving heroes was inspiring to me.

[solvemproblerstudios]

Today I realized the plot was actually incredibly similar to Antman 3.
Characters get stuck in a strange realm and meet a crew of outcasts attempting to stop the ruler of the realm, ruler of the realm intends to ruin the multiverse, hero is about to make the ultimate sacrifice to stop them, gets bailed out by the other main character.

[chand]

The comparison to Scary Movie parodies is spot on.

[GroundhogJay]

It makes me laugh that Cable and Domino and Russell aren't there... but Shatterstar, who Deadpool mocked and seemed to hate, is there. I guess he was cheaper to get.

[abritishguy]

Best MCU movie in years is the one that has almost nothing to do with the MCU and stars no established characters from it.

[joeblankenship]

I wanted Anna Paquin as a comic-accurate Rogue, flying and super strong and calling people "sugar". Would've been perfect alongside Tatum's Gambit.

[musicalriotgrl]

Maybe, I was just in a theater with a bunch of Marvel nerds or something but everybody was hooping hollering and laughing the whole movie It was so much fun

[curveball]

No, but it a gave a reminder of how much fun an mcu movie would be if only they brought in actors and directors that gave a shit

[evananderson]

My friend and I saw it on Saturday.. we laughed the entire way through. Several people in our theater were constantly cracking up.

I wasn't expecting or looking for a rock solid plot, I went for immature and deprecating jokes and gory, gratuitous violence...the cameos and the meta shots at Disney and Marvel and Fox..


It is a even better than I hoped. We're both going again next weekend with 4 more of our friends.

[jesustapdncingchrist]

Did anyone else notice that the fight scene in the Honda Odyssey was basically a stand-in for a sex scene between the two of them

[johnconstantine]

The minivan fight is the best of the fights in the movie. There are 2 things that sell it: the argument they have before (which leads into the fight), and the brutal close quarter fight (beween 2 guys that don't die). The worst shot one was the one in the void, wifh the cameos. It was noticeably shakey, in comparison with the other fights, which weren't.

[ironvader]

The takeaway from this movie appears to be that established characters played by established actors can beat any form of franchise-fatigue, and that appealing to what you know people want beats trying to be "clever".

Deadpool & Wolverine was made to do two things - a final goodbye to the Fox-Era of Marvel-Movies, and to first and foremost serve as a crowdpleaser.

It did the first thing well, and judging by how the box-office is shaping up, did the second thing even better.

[KarazolaX]

The only thing that didn’t work for me was the plot about DP quitting as a merc. There was clearly a meta narrative about Disney not wanting him, but it felt forced to have him just give up in his own timeline

[Daniel.Grimaldi]

“We’ll save that for the spoilers part of the video”

*talks about entire plot and what happens*

[brandonhinkle]

I feel very conflicted by this movie. It's cameo and fan service porn at it's core. Did I enjoy Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman and the numerous fun cameos? Absolutely. Do I think the story is flimsy and held back by bad pacing and exposition? Yes

I absolutely hate that they threw the Deadpool/Vanessa relationship in the trash. Made no sense from where the first two films came from.