The Fake Comedy of Deadpool & Wolverine

Deadpool & Wolverine are sketchy, they’re lying to you. Throughout the entire overblown “comedy” I laughed once and half-smiled one more time.

The action was a series of endless, meaningless, and inconsequential regenerative massacres. I came to Sofia to escape the pig slaughtering in the village, not to watch it on screen. A pity, because the seed of a story, chopped up by the rapid micro-jokes, is actually interesting—until it gets lost in the annoying multi-meme-universe.

I allow myself to grumble because the second film was a small miracle—a worthy sequel that stands well next to the classic original. The first two had great chases, choreography, imagination, and rhythm—unlike the monotonously over-salted new title. You want more? Here’s more of the same, ha ha. It suspiciously resembles exactly what it “mocks”—sequels and episodic comic book heroes.

True, Hugh Jackman has a strong presence and puts in the effort, but there was nothing for him to do with a script where he just says STFU again and again. If the team of non/friends had been even half as well crafted as The Big Lebowski (or Harold & Kumar), it would’ve been great.

Making the film seems to have been more fun than the film itself, and the underrated first two Wolverine movies are actually decent and much better. The actors’ sniping at each other on social media as warm-up for the big screen was much more inventive… and free.

P.S. Mystery Men is a truly funny superhero parody from even before the first X-Men came out.