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Deadpool Saves the MCU: A Fan Service Masterpiece
Ryan Reynolds has performed a miracle with Deadpool & Wolverine, crafting what feels like an extended apology letter to fans who've suffered through the MCU's recent disappointments. This isn't just another superhero movie – it's a statement that someone at Marvel finally understands what audiences have been craving all along.
The film thrives on the undeniable chemistry between Reynolds' Deadpool and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, creating a dynamic that's both hilariously antagonistic and surprisingly emotional. What makes this pairing work so brilliantly is how the film doesn't shy away from acknowledging the questionable decision to resurrect Wolverine after his perfect send-off in Logan. Instead, it leans into the absurdity through its multiverse framework, while simultaneously mocking the very concept that has become Marvel's narrative crutch.
Where Deadpool & Wolverine truly shines is in its willingness to be unabashedly entertaining without the burden of social commentary that has weighed down recent Marvel entries. The film is packed with cameos and references that reward longtime fans, from Wesley Snipes reclaiming his role as Blade to Channing Tatum finally getting his chance to play Gambit. These moments feel like genuine celebrations of Marvel's cinematic history rather than cheap nostalgia bait. While some references might be too niche for casual viewers, they demonstrate a deep respect for the source material and the fans who've remained loyal despite the studio's recent missteps. If this marks Marvel's return to prioritizing entertainment over messaging, it couldn't have come at a better time. Subscribe to our podcast for more honest takes on the latest blockbusters and let us know if you think this signals Marvel's comeback!
It wasn't like a lot of the current comedy movies, and especially the recent Marvel Universe, where everything is just handed to you on a silver platter. It's like here's the joke. And also let me just quickly explain what the joke is, just to make sure you really get it.
Speaker 2:And if you don't like the joke, then you're a white, privileged, straight white male, you piece of shit. Hey, everyone, and welcome to another episode of movies worth seeing. Today's episode. Should we do a?
Speaker 1:spoiler talk, or should we just like free flow?
Speaker 2:I reckon we can uh do a spoiler free first half and a spoiler second half okay, so here's our spoiler freefree movie review of Deadpool and Wolverine Starring Ryan Reynolds, who is single-handedly just saving the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe at this point. He's not coy about it either.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't be coy either. He's owning that, just make good movies.
Speaker 2:It's not that hard. Just make movies that the audience wants and then somehow they end up really good. Who would have thought what were your thoughts going into this, of what you thought it was going to turn out like?
Speaker 1:I was excited. Marvel, disney they're at the low point Like with the Marvels, eternals, all the Marvel all the horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible flops that are having. Except for Spider-Man, that was the last good one. For the rest, since Avengers, that feels like it was ages ago dude.
Speaker 1:It feels like it's been ages, but that's the last good movie they've had. After that it was just flop after flop and wokeness after wokeness and I was just very hopeful going into this movie knowing it is deadpool. It's like no, you're coming here to be entertained and I'm gonna do that for you. That's what you got to see that before. Not for the story, not for the inspiration or the or the hopefulness of it.
Speaker 2:You're going there to be entertained yeah, this wasn't like commenting, making social commentary on like political wars happening, or mentioning of the presidential candidates, or any bullshit.
Speaker 1:I'm going to come.
Speaker 2:It was just a fun kind of movie that we could lose ourselves in, and somehow I don't know how Ryan Reynolds manages to do it. The guy must have some awesome pool power.
Speaker 1:After the first or second Deadpool, I think they're all sucking his dick there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so he could just walk in and be like you know what? I'm going to just say this we're going to write this bit of dialogue where we just tell Kevin Feige to suck our dick and they'll be like give him what he wants, just do it. You honestly get the vibe that he could just get away with anything. He could just pitch whatever he wants at this point because he's got carte blanche to do whatever he wants, because they know the first two were so successful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pretty much. The creators of this movie are such hardcore fans, they know what the audience wants and that's why you got all the freaking cameos A bit too much in my opinion sometimes, because it took a little bit away. Yeah, I freaking cameos a bit too much in my opinion sometimes because it took a little bit away.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I felt it was a bit too much.
Speaker 1:But it's so good though it makes you feel good because like, oh my god, it's that guy. Fuck it's awesome.
Speaker 2:I think where the movie was losing me a bit was when it started going into its whole multiverse stuff, because now the multiverse just means anything can be done, and South Park made fun of this shit in their specials where they just said oh well, it's a multiverse like nothing has consequences and anything can happen and it doesn't have to make sense, which is essentially what this movie did. Its main plot comes from this idea of just Wolverine's meant to be dead. Wolverine was dead in Logan.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to grab another.
Speaker 2:Wolverine from another universe that we have no emotional connection with, and we don't know what he's achieved, what he hasn't achieved, and we're learning it as the movie goes.
Speaker 1:So they're relying on the multiverse. But then in the climax of the whole movie, you just see Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds just stops the whole thing. It's like stop, stop, stop. Can't we just stop with the whole multi-universe thing? It's just been a miss after miss, after miss after miss, yet they're doing it themselves. Come on now, doll. Yeah, it's a bit of a hypocritical move this is something that I noticed with.
Speaker 2:Uh, I think I noticed in other deadpool movies or other movies that are like very meta I always come back to. Is it witty and smart if you're just acknowledging this thing is really, but we're gonna do it anyway I think it's like a fine line.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like a loophole. Okay, is it witty and smart? If you're just acknowledging this thing is really shit, but we're going to do it anyway. I think it's like a fine line. It's kind of like a loophole. Okay, madam Web, let's go back to Madam Web, and if you haven't seen the Madam Web podcast, please go and do so. It's cringe, very, madam Web. It was so full of cringe, but the characters in the whole movie is trying to take itself serious, which makes it even more cringe, whereas with Deadpool there's a lot of cringe moments such as like, like that. It's like oh, the multiverse, again and again and again it's been a miss and miss, miss after again and they do it again. But the fact that they acknowledge it, it kind of tells the audience, like we know how you feel. It's not that we're trying to butter you up with like this inspirational movie such as Madam Web. Madam.
Speaker 2:Web did inspire me in some ways.
Speaker 1:To never ever watch a Sony-produced film ever again? Yeah, but wait a second. Isn't Unless it's Spider-Man? Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was about to say Spider-Man, you got balls. Sony, I'll give you that. To constantly keep going with something that you know is not working takes balls, but it's also really dumb. Good job, good job, really good job. Why did you have to bring up Madam Webber?
Speaker 1:Let's go on a rant, guys. I hate that movie.
Speaker 2:There was niche references that I had to explain after because they were so niche. I was like only hardcore fans are going to know these things, and it does make me wonder, like, how much of these jokes and references are going to hit for, like more casual audiences.
Speaker 1:But that's what I mean. It's a fan service. I'm not a hardcore fan and a lot of these niche jokes which we will spoil a little bit later. I didn't get them, but when I heard about it I was like that's smart. Yes, I love that. I love that I didn't get it. I love that because it shows that it's not trying to make everything understandable for the audience that is not as involved as the hardcore fan. It shows it is an ode to the fans of the comics.
Speaker 2:Nice and they're probably thinking any fans that have stood by, like Phase 4, which has been dog shit, anyone that's stood by that phase, is still going to watch Deadpool and Wolverine despite how shit the cinematic universe is now. So they're probably thinking let's throw them a bone for like suffering through Eternals and the Marvels and any other Thor, Love and Thunder or those movies Good job. I guess going into this one of my concerns was going to be is Wolverine just going to, Is that relationship just going to be the entire movie? And there wasn't really any room for any other kind of characters and I guess it depends on what your thoughts were. On all the side characters from Deadpool 1 and 2. For me it kind of sucked in a way that there wasn't more involvement from them. They all got pushed aside for the sake of Wolverine coming back, which I get, because they needed something big to hook people back.
Speaker 1:Look as sad as it is. I think Marvel has no option but to bring back old characters.
Speaker 2:They're probably thinking we don't have the patience to develop new characters or new actors. We kind of like retired a whole bunch of famous actors from the characters all at once with endgame. All right, well, first off, let's give our final rating for deadpool and wolverine. Without spoiling, I'm gonna say deadpool and wolverine is a return to form for the marvel cinematic universe. It takes a lot of nostalgia bait and a lot of fan service to like bring people back in, and this movie feels like a giant apology for like the last couple of years with the marvel cinematic universe. It's not my favorite deadpool movie, but it's a lot of fun. Yeah, I love deadpool and wolverine's uh chemistry together. I think it's a fun entry in the marvel world and had some really clever ideas, some great meta and the humor was there. So yeah, man, would I see another Deadpool movie after this? I'd be a bit weary about them making another sequel after this.
Speaker 1:I don't think they will. I think this is trilogy.
Speaker 2:Well, if this is like the final ride into the sunset, then it's a pretty solid ending. I'd give it like three and a half. I'm almost at four stars. The only thing holding me back is I feel like, while it's fun, I don't know if I would go out of my way to watch it again. You know what this brings up a good point. I feel like this movie is great because the standards of the cinematic universe are so low right now, whereas if this deadpool movie came out when Marvel was hitting its peak around endgame time, I don't know if we'd still say the same thing.
Speaker 1:I don't think you'd be able to say the same thing, because all the jokes are made knowing they're at the low point.
Speaker 2:That's true as well. A lot of material comes from the fact that they're acknowledging how crap the cinematic universe is.
Speaker 1:A freaking, amazing, fantastic intro and I just love they finally metal skeleton it and just beat the shit out of a lot of TVA agents With the rhythm, the music, the effects of it, the mockery. It was just. I thought it was brilliant. You cracked up. You cannot lie. This guy was laughing his ass off for half the movie. That is a testament, even though he laughs easily.
Speaker 2:But point fucking proven Put your pants down and I'll start laughing right now, ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 1:Okay, Spoiler talk what do you I haven't even given my stars yet. Hurry the fuck up. I only talked about the intro credit. You took over, you little dick. Ha ha, I think four stars. The plot is not why you go to see the movie and, like you said it perfectly, it's an apology for the last few years of absolute rubbish from Marvel. Based on that, I think they did exceptionally well. It was funny, mocked the whole culture. There were so many layers to it, a lot of Denise jokes like we were saying before I didn't get them. But then, reading about them later or hear you talk about it later, it's like, oh my God, that is brilliant and it keeps me thinking. I am soaking wet right now. Now to get into spoiler territory, your little cinematic universe is about to change forever.
Speaker 2:Way to start the dog joke. It's too stupid man. Some of the jokes in this movie I'm like that was too f***ing dumb and like f*** it's not that funny?
Speaker 1:Come on, it was funny the first time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the first and the second time I was like okay. But then third, fourth, fifth, I'm like f***, fuck this dog off, fuck it when it came to the cameos. Cameos were brilliant Seeing Wesley Snipes back as Blade and say like I'm the one and only Blade, when we know that Marvel's been doing all this bullshit to try and get a new actor to play Blade in a new movie, which is so dumb because the guy's in shape, he knows what he's doing, he would be able to pull it off and just get so much.
Speaker 2:I don't know why they're trying to recast these things, and that's exactly why they're driving mockery out of it. Also, that's the good part all the fights between deadpool and wolverine. They're fun and it's great fan service. But after a while you're kind of like I know you guys can't die, so where's this going? This is just kind of like flashy okay, yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree um okay, two reasons why I hate the villain. Number one I don't understand who the fuck she is. They say she's the twin of professor x. Number two you have no idea what her motivation is. She's just generic villain that wants to destroy this. This mcguffin so silly. I don't give a f**k, I don't care. She could just easily kill deadpool and wolverine in two seconds. You've established that she has too much power. She's super overpowered, so she could easily kill them. She does have one really cool, visually stunning kind of power that I've never seen before your hand, where she's like finger f***ing a guy's face with her fingers and it gets really weird, the joke you told me from Elektra that her ex-husband is not playing.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah. It's just so niche that is so niche.
Speaker 2:Channing Tatum as Gambit was f***ing amazing. I was like dude, give me a Gambit movie, I'd fucking subscribe to that x23, that's her name, uh, logan's daughter.
Speaker 1:She had one heartfelt moment with Wolverine, which was absolutely needed because they never actually had a good set off to get like they did.
Speaker 2:You had to do that after Logan. Exactly Everyone would be like whoa, but at the same time it's a different Wolverine.
Speaker 1:It's a different Wolverine as well, but still that connection. It could have been so much more interesting not to make the scene any longer. Just a little bit more layers, a little bit more depth, a bit more interesting choices there, and then just it was supposed to be heartfelt but it really wasn't.
Speaker 2:That's very interesting because she was really good in Logan.
Speaker 1:She was amazing. Is it the same actress? Yeah, it's the same actress. Well, Michael's got some interesting and exciting news. This is the last time we're doing the podcast in this room. Thank f**k. No more dog barking in the back.
Speaker 2:Unless there's a dog barking at my other home where I'm moving. Yeah, hope not. The next time we do this, we'll be in a very nice cinema room, exciting, which hopefully will block out all the noise from the outside world. Yeah, and then, yeah, the real fun will start. So that's our thoughts on Deadpool and Wolverine. If you enjoyed this video, please like, share and subscribe for more videos like this and tell us your thoughts. What did you think of Deadpool and Wolverine? Comment below and let us know.