After a six-year absence, Deadpool returns to enlist in the official Marvel Cinematic Universe in Deadpool & Wolverine (July 26, in theaters), and as he tells his new clawed buddy, “You’re joining at a bit of a low point.”
That’s putting it mildly, given the studio’s post-Avengers: Endgame doldrums. Yet Shawn Levy’s threequel turns out to be just what the doctor ordered: a hyperactive, juvenile, shout-out-laden adventure that pairs Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with the Mouth with Hugh Jackman’s berserker-raging X-Man in a saga that often plays as a love letter to the quarter-century history of Marvel blockbusters made by Twentieth Century Fox, which in 2019 was purchased by Disney.
As with its predecessors, those who can’t stand Deadpool or aren’t educated in Marvel movie lore won’t tolerate a second of it. The rest will be in bleeping heaven.
