DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE = A 


Fun, engaging, and kept you entertained throughout, DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE was a film that kept hardcore comic book lovers and the casual movie goers happy alike. Usually, sequels focus in one of two directions.  Either keep in mind that it is a sequel, that requires linkage and continuity, in other words, you watched the parts before it for a reason.  Or, treat it like a totally new film, that is as fun and entertaining to a newcomer, even if they had never seen the previous films as a prerequisite.  DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE somehow or another managed to do both.  Having seen part one and part two, the characters and their back stories matched previous installments, but had someone came into this unaware and oblivious, they would not have felt totally left in the dark.  An extremely difficult thing to pull off, yet executed near flawlessly. 

Like a good meal that mixes all the ingredients, not too little, not too much, DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE had the right mixture of action, comedy and drama.  A great fight sequence, followed by a moment of levity, to a side-splitting gag.  Wolverine's speech about his fallen comrades was enough to bring you to tears, as Deadpool moments later dried them up with a well-timed joke.  

Some comic book films require you to be a hardcore comic book fan, obsessed and fixated upon the material.  DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE isn't one of them.  Yet if you are a hardcore, obsessed and fixated comic book fan, you're still going to enjoy this film anyway.  It had a little bit of everything for everyone, and it was amazing how well Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman worked together.   The filmmakers had to know that Reynolds was constantly going to try and upstage Jackman, and they tackled this obstacle by brilliantly writing it into the script.   I've enjoyed all the DEADPOOL movies, but this one really hit the nail on the head.