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Critics Consensus: Ryan Reynolds makes himself at home in the MCU with acerbic wit while Hugh Jackman provides an Adamantium backbone to proceedings in Deadpool & Wolverine, an irreverent romp with a surprising soft spot for a bygone era of superhero movies.
Sample Reviews:
It’s a poignant summation of the Fox chapter of the Marvel saga. - Peter Debruge, Variety
For the core audience, the gags will be reward enough, even if the rest of us might squirm as the sloppily staged action grows repetitive, the plotting haphazard and the humor so self-aware the movie threatens to disappear up its own ass. - David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
A shameless piece of self-congratulation, fueled by self-cannibalism, as the studio which built its identity on superhero crossovers finally abandons the pretense of trying to justify them dramatically. - William Bibbiani, TheWrap
A fun, generally well-made summer movie. The sole MCU release of 2024, “Deadpool & Wolverine” proves it’s not necessarily the source material that’s causing so-called superhero fatigue. 2.5/4 - Krysta Fauria, Associated Press
Deadpool is and always has been a faux-naughty edgelord and tryhard. While it will likely amuse its target audience of geeks and the terminally online, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is a whole lot of hot air and not much else. 2/4 - Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service
Miraculously, the heartfelt stuff isn’t buried by the film’s commitment to nonstop shenanigans and giddy self-awareness. 3.5/4 - Brian Truitt, USA Today
An apology candygram delivered by the two most mouth-puckeringly sour superheroes Marvel now owns. - Amy Nicholson, Washington Post
It is a film about how anything that was ever successful in Hollywood is made to repeat that same song and dance endlessly... Deadpool & Wolverine devilishly plays on this, of course. It is watchable because it’s self-reflective. - Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
While retaking its cinematic crown will be a challenge, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is a giant, promising step forward for the franchise. 3.5/4 - Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post
I’d rather just watch a movie than be pandered to by one. 2/4 - Rafer Guzman, Newsday
It’s definitely not for everybody, but even a non-fan stumbling into the theater accidentally will find whole sections here to enjoy. 2.5/4 - Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Deadpool & Wolverine settles for manic, gamer-style ultraviolence where death isn’t a thing, really, but where the grotesque sight gags start to feel not simply hollow, but kind of awful. 1/4 - Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
It’s all great fun, and it’s just enough to overcome the uninspired direction, mid-level special effects and hit-and-miss humor. 3/4 - Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Ridiculous even by superhero standards, it remains more or less coherent. 2.5/4 - Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Alternately hilarious and exhausting and stuffed with more meta-narrative than it has actual narrative, Deadpool & Wolverine is a massive corporate in-joke masquerading as a movie. B- - Adam Graham, Detroit News
Real-world MCU supremo Kevin Feige has turned all the “no” switches to “yes” and unleashed the most violent, funny, self-critiquing, cameo-laden MCU film imaginable. 3.5/5 - Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle
Deadpool & Wolverine is the ultimate love letter to Marvel fans: The cameos and references are aplenty and brilliant, the source material is treated with respect and, best of all, it’s pure, unadulterated fun. 4/4 - Dominic Baez, Seattle Times
Superfans of the entire Marvel universe will find this film filled with top-notch comedy and action, Easter eggs, cameos that left the audience gasping and cheering, a lot of meta jokes and digs at 20th Century Fox. 3.5/5 - Meredith G. White, Arizona Republic
One of the best, most satisfying and certainly adult roller-coaster rides of this summer. 3.5/4 - Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News
The cure for superhero fatigue is mocking the living hell out of it. 3/4 - Peter Howell, Toronto Star
There is a difference between tossing out references and making a movie that is genuinely funny, thrilling, energetic and innovative. At nearly every turn, Deadpool & Wolverine aspires to work in direct opposition to such goals. - Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail
It’s amusing and exhausting. 3/5 - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
Ebulliently directed by Shawn Levy, this is a hyperactive cheese dream that brings together two of Marvel’s best characters and a supporting cast who will have nerds frothing at the mouth. 4/5 - Ed Potton, Times (UK)
Deadpool & Wolverine is as much fun as you can conceivably have at a corporate merger meeting. 2/5 - Clarisse Loughrey, Independent (UK)
To paraphrase TS Eliot, these fragments has Marvel shored against its ruins, though the crumbling continues regardless. 1/5 - Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph (UK)
Yes please: we’ll take as many Wolverine crossovers as Marvel is willing to dish out, as long as they taste as good as this one. 4/5 - Vicky Jessop, London Evening Standard
The first Marvel Cinematic Universe flick to get an R certificate in the US, is, despite that supposed confirmation of mature content, the most relentlessly juvenile entry in a sequence that has rarely been confused with Ingmar Bergman’s Faith trilogy. 1/5 - Donald Clarke, Irish Times
Beneath the outlandishness, half-dozen belly laughs and nerd-centric beats resides sweet nostalgia for the last quarter-century of superhero movies, while demonstrating that Marvel Studios possesses the power to laugh at itself. - Brian Lowry, CNN.com
It is a carnival of in-jokes, self-references, and reality breaks with no higher purpose than to congratulate its audience for keeping up. It has no stakes, no drama, and only the most cynical applications of creativity. C- - Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly
Deadpool & Wolverine does a disarmingly effective job of convincing its audience that this is a film about nostalgia for beloved characters when it’s really just bridging a gap between one company’s output and another’s. - Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
Once Deadpool & Wolverine enters the trash-heap zone, however, it embraces the already meta-aspects of the series to an absurd degree and never looks back. - David Fear, Rolling Stone
For viewers who spend a lot of their time online, soaking up the discourse generated by insider-fan accounts and message boards, all of this will seem warmly familiar. But good luck if you’re coming in with no prior knowledge. - David Sims, The Atlantic
Honestly, it appears to exist solely to make money. - Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
From cameos to background Easter eggs to long-fan-ficked meet-ups, it’s a relentless onslaught of surprises designed to get audiences screaming and throwing popcorn in the air. 4/5 - Olly Richards, Empire Magazine
This comic-book pairing ultimately underwhelms, resulting in some touching moments and some anarchic humour in a picture otherwise dragged down by convoluted multiverse logistics and drab fan service. - Tim Grierson, Screen International
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. - Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
Deadpool & Wolverine rescues something kind of beautiful from the ugliness that superhero movies have perpetuated for so long. Not visually, of course, but in several other key respects. C+ - David Ehrlich, indieWire
Despite being right in the demographic crosshairs for its incessant geek culture references, I found myself as exhausted with this film as I have been with any other installment in the lackluster Multiverse Saga. 1.5/4 - Dylan Roth, Observer
Deadpool & Wolverine doesn’t flinch from speaking some measure of truth to power. 3/4 - Justin Clark, Slant Magazine
Once the buzz of giggling wears off, it's clear: Deadpool & Wolverine isn't here to save superhero movies. It's here to show off Disney's newly acquired IP. - Kristy Puchko, Mashable
Deadpool & Wolverine is serviceable in its worst moments and a lot of fun when it’s really cooking. Yet if your expectations for Deadpool & Wolverine include a clean explanation of where the Marvel multiverse stands, perhaps lower them. B - Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence
Somehow, despite the silly mayhem and hyper-meta goofing, I kinda did care about the characters, especially in the finale, which unspools a pathos firehose and blasts us with it. 2.5/4 - Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
A masterclass in meta-humor, charisma and cameo-chaos, this is a riotous, self-aware spectacle that gleefully mocks superhero conventions while still delivering the adrenaline-pumping action MCU fans having been craving since Avengers: Endgame. 4/5 - Linda Marric, HeyUGuys
The results are a mixed bag of occasionally funny one-liners and characters you forgot you probably complained about online in the 2000s. - Kristen Lopez, Kristomania (Substack)
Reynolds and Jackman have tremendous chemistry. The movie expertly balances the exciting, the silly, the references for the fans and the straightforward superhero stuff, even a few glimpses of actual sincerity. B+ - Nell Minow, Movie Mom
SYNOPSIS:
Marvel Studios presents their most significant mistake to date - "Deadpool & Wolverine." A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life. His days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. When his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctantlier... reluctanter? Reluctantest? He must convince a reluctant Wolverine to - Fuck. Synopses are so fucking stupid.
CAST:
WRITTEN BY: Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells, Shawn Levy
PRODUCED BY: Kevin Feige, Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy, Lauren Shuler Donner
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Louis D’Esposito, Wendy Jacobson, Mary McLaglen, Josh McLaglen, George Dewey, Simon Kinberg, Jonathon Komack Martin, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
CO-PRODUCER: Mitch Bell
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: George Richmond
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Raymond Chan
EDITED BY: Dean Zimmerman, Shane Reid
COSTUME DESIGNER: Graham Churchyard, Mayes C. Rubyo
VISUAL EFFECTS AND ANIMATION BY: Industrial Light & Magic
VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR: Swen Gillberg
HEAD OF VISUAL DEVELOPMENT: Andy Park
MUSIC BY: Rob Simonsen
MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Dave Jordan
CASTING BY: Sarah Hailee Finn
RUNTIME: 127 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: July 26, 2024
| Score | Number of Reviews | Average Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Critics | 81% | 195 | 7.20/10 |
| Top Critics | 64% | 45 | 6.30/10 |
Sample Reviews:
It’s a poignant summation of the Fox chapter of the Marvel saga. - Peter Debruge, Variety
For the core audience, the gags will be reward enough, even if the rest of us might squirm as the sloppily staged action grows repetitive, the plotting haphazard and the humor so self-aware the movie threatens to disappear up its own ass. - David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
A shameless piece of self-congratulation, fueled by self-cannibalism, as the studio which built its identity on superhero crossovers finally abandons the pretense of trying to justify them dramatically. - William Bibbiani, TheWrap
A fun, generally well-made summer movie. The sole MCU release of 2024, “Deadpool & Wolverine” proves it’s not necessarily the source material that’s causing so-called superhero fatigue. 2.5/4 - Krysta Fauria, Associated Press
Deadpool is and always has been a faux-naughty edgelord and tryhard. While it will likely amuse its target audience of geeks and the terminally online, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is a whole lot of hot air and not much else. 2/4 - Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service
Miraculously, the heartfelt stuff isn’t buried by the film’s commitment to nonstop shenanigans and giddy self-awareness. 3.5/4 - Brian Truitt, USA Today
An apology candygram delivered by the two most mouth-puckeringly sour superheroes Marvel now owns. - Amy Nicholson, Washington Post
It is a film about how anything that was ever successful in Hollywood is made to repeat that same song and dance endlessly... Deadpool & Wolverine devilishly plays on this, of course. It is watchable because it’s self-reflective. - Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
While retaking its cinematic crown will be a challenge, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is a giant, promising step forward for the franchise. 3.5/4 - Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post
I’d rather just watch a movie than be pandered to by one. 2/4 - Rafer Guzman, Newsday
It’s definitely not for everybody, but even a non-fan stumbling into the theater accidentally will find whole sections here to enjoy. 2.5/4 - Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Deadpool & Wolverine settles for manic, gamer-style ultraviolence where death isn’t a thing, really, but where the grotesque sight gags start to feel not simply hollow, but kind of awful. 1/4 - Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
It’s all great fun, and it’s just enough to overcome the uninspired direction, mid-level special effects and hit-and-miss humor. 3/4 - Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Ridiculous even by superhero standards, it remains more or less coherent. 2.5/4 - Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Alternately hilarious and exhausting and stuffed with more meta-narrative than it has actual narrative, Deadpool & Wolverine is a massive corporate in-joke masquerading as a movie. B- - Adam Graham, Detroit News
Real-world MCU supremo Kevin Feige has turned all the “no” switches to “yes” and unleashed the most violent, funny, self-critiquing, cameo-laden MCU film imaginable. 3.5/5 - Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle
Deadpool & Wolverine is the ultimate love letter to Marvel fans: The cameos and references are aplenty and brilliant, the source material is treated with respect and, best of all, it’s pure, unadulterated fun. 4/4 - Dominic Baez, Seattle Times
Superfans of the entire Marvel universe will find this film filled with top-notch comedy and action, Easter eggs, cameos that left the audience gasping and cheering, a lot of meta jokes and digs at 20th Century Fox. 3.5/5 - Meredith G. White, Arizona Republic
One of the best, most satisfying and certainly adult roller-coaster rides of this summer. 3.5/4 - Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News
The cure for superhero fatigue is mocking the living hell out of it. 3/4 - Peter Howell, Toronto Star
There is a difference between tossing out references and making a movie that is genuinely funny, thrilling, energetic and innovative. At nearly every turn, Deadpool & Wolverine aspires to work in direct opposition to such goals. - Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail
It’s amusing and exhausting. 3/5 - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
Ebulliently directed by Shawn Levy, this is a hyperactive cheese dream that brings together two of Marvel’s best characters and a supporting cast who will have nerds frothing at the mouth. 4/5 - Ed Potton, Times (UK)
Deadpool & Wolverine is as much fun as you can conceivably have at a corporate merger meeting. 2/5 - Clarisse Loughrey, Independent (UK)
To paraphrase TS Eliot, these fragments has Marvel shored against its ruins, though the crumbling continues regardless. 1/5 - Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph (UK)
Yes please: we’ll take as many Wolverine crossovers as Marvel is willing to dish out, as long as they taste as good as this one. 4/5 - Vicky Jessop, London Evening Standard
The first Marvel Cinematic Universe flick to get an R certificate in the US, is, despite that supposed confirmation of mature content, the most relentlessly juvenile entry in a sequence that has rarely been confused with Ingmar Bergman’s Faith trilogy. 1/5 - Donald Clarke, Irish Times
Beneath the outlandishness, half-dozen belly laughs and nerd-centric beats resides sweet nostalgia for the last quarter-century of superhero movies, while demonstrating that Marvel Studios possesses the power to laugh at itself. - Brian Lowry, CNN.com
It is a carnival of in-jokes, self-references, and reality breaks with no higher purpose than to congratulate its audience for keeping up. It has no stakes, no drama, and only the most cynical applications of creativity. C- - Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly
Deadpool & Wolverine does a disarmingly effective job of convincing its audience that this is a film about nostalgia for beloved characters when it’s really just bridging a gap between one company’s output and another’s. - Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
Once Deadpool & Wolverine enters the trash-heap zone, however, it embraces the already meta-aspects of the series to an absurd degree and never looks back. - David Fear, Rolling Stone
For viewers who spend a lot of their time online, soaking up the discourse generated by insider-fan accounts and message boards, all of this will seem warmly familiar. But good luck if you’re coming in with no prior knowledge. - David Sims, The Atlantic
Honestly, it appears to exist solely to make money. - Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
From cameos to background Easter eggs to long-fan-ficked meet-ups, it’s a relentless onslaught of surprises designed to get audiences screaming and throwing popcorn in the air. 4/5 - Olly Richards, Empire Magazine
This comic-book pairing ultimately underwhelms, resulting in some touching moments and some anarchic humour in a picture otherwise dragged down by convoluted multiverse logistics and drab fan service. - Tim Grierson, Screen International
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. - Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
Deadpool & Wolverine rescues something kind of beautiful from the ugliness that superhero movies have perpetuated for so long. Not visually, of course, but in several other key respects. C+ - David Ehrlich, indieWire
Despite being right in the demographic crosshairs for its incessant geek culture references, I found myself as exhausted with this film as I have been with any other installment in the lackluster Multiverse Saga. 1.5/4 - Dylan Roth, Observer
Deadpool & Wolverine doesn’t flinch from speaking some measure of truth to power. 3/4 - Justin Clark, Slant Magazine
Once the buzz of giggling wears off, it's clear: Deadpool & Wolverine isn't here to save superhero movies. It's here to show off Disney's newly acquired IP. - Kristy Puchko, Mashable
Deadpool & Wolverine is serviceable in its worst moments and a lot of fun when it’s really cooking. Yet if your expectations for Deadpool & Wolverine include a clean explanation of where the Marvel multiverse stands, perhaps lower them. B - Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence
Somehow, despite the silly mayhem and hyper-meta goofing, I kinda did care about the characters, especially in the finale, which unspools a pathos firehose and blasts us with it. 2.5/4 - Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
A masterclass in meta-humor, charisma and cameo-chaos, this is a riotous, self-aware spectacle that gleefully mocks superhero conventions while still delivering the adrenaline-pumping action MCU fans having been craving since Avengers: Endgame. 4/5 - Linda Marric, HeyUGuys
The results are a mixed bag of occasionally funny one-liners and characters you forgot you probably complained about online in the 2000s. - Kristen Lopez, Kristomania (Substack)
Reynolds and Jackman have tremendous chemistry. The movie expertly balances the exciting, the silly, the references for the fans and the straightforward superhero stuff, even a few glimpses of actual sincerity. B+ - Nell Minow, Movie Mom
SYNOPSIS:
Marvel Studios presents their most significant mistake to date - "Deadpool & Wolverine." A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life. His days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. When his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctantlier... reluctanter? Reluctantest? He must convince a reluctant Wolverine to - Fuck. Synopses are so fucking stupid.
CAST:
- Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson / Deadpool
- Hugh Jackman as James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine
- Emma Corrin as Cassandra Nova
- Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlysle
- Rob Delaney as Peter Wisdom
- Leslie Uggams as Blind Al
- Aaron Stanford as Pyro
- Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Paradox
WRITTEN BY: Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells, Shawn Levy
PRODUCED BY: Kevin Feige, Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy, Lauren Shuler Donner
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Louis D’Esposito, Wendy Jacobson, Mary McLaglen, Josh McLaglen, George Dewey, Simon Kinberg, Jonathon Komack Martin, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
CO-PRODUCER: Mitch Bell
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: George Richmond
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Raymond Chan
EDITED BY: Dean Zimmerman, Shane Reid
COSTUME DESIGNER: Graham Churchyard, Mayes C. Rubyo
VISUAL EFFECTS AND ANIMATION BY: Industrial Light & Magic
VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR: Swen Gillberg
HEAD OF VISUAL DEVELOPMENT: Andy Park
MUSIC BY: Rob Simonsen
MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Dave Jordan
CASTING BY: Sarah Hailee Finn
RUNTIME: 127 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: July 26, 2024
