Deadpool & Wolverine

Many of the superhero products lately have exploited the multi-verse. It’s a time-travel, timeline, do-over logic which allows filmmakers an excuse to not follow a serialized canon and instead do their own thing with the same actors. The Flash, The X-Men, and various Spidermans have all played with this do-over, what-if logic. So a satire of the “multi-verse” was inevitable. Chock full of comic book Easter eggs, fan service tributes, and real world references, its main entertainment purpose is to make the audience feel smart. “Oh, I get that reference! That’s an X-Men reference! That’s a Loki reference! That’s Ryan’s real-world wife.” It’s less of a story and more of a comic riddle. It rewards all the many hours of previous moviegoing. But it’s full of easy, low-hanging laughs – unfolding as a really violent buddy comedy. It won’t really resonate as a super-hero story, but as a comedy it sticks the landing.