Lamar Reviews - Deadpool & Wolverine (Airdate 8/2/2024)

Can Deadpool & Wolverine turn things around for the Marvel Franchise? For the past 15 years, it has been the undisputed king of the box office, making over $30 Billion Worldwide. After Avengers: Endgame there has been some confusion on how that affects the movies coming out after it. And all the movies coming out along with all of the Disney+ programming has made a glut of Marvel content. There is no more waiting in anticipation for a Marvel movie or series, you have to scramble just to keep up with all that is coming out. Other than bacon, you can have too much of a good thing, and Marvel ain’t bacon. They need to hold back so that people miss it and want more. The Marvels, took in $46 million, the lowest opening ever for an MCU film.

Deadpool & Wolverine opened in America for $205 million, $438.3 million worldwide. This the biggest R-Rated opening of all time domestically and globally.

Biggest opening for Ryan Reynolds, and biggest opening ever for Hugh Jack, more than doubling 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand. So it seems this might right the ship, if Marvel can keep it sailing!

Putting wisecracking Deadpool with brooding Wolverine as “buddy” movie was genius! Compared to a normal Marvel movie, there is way less CGI. But they didn’t spare anybody when it game to biting humor. Nothing is off the table, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Gossip Girl, Blake Lively, Furiosa, The Proposal, Hugh Jackman’s divorce, just to name a few. And of course, they don’t just break the fourth wall, they destroy it!

The plot, which doesn’t really matter, revolves around the Time Variance Authority. The TVA is charged with the task of maintaining timeline integrity in the multiverse. Deadpool and Wolverine find themselves sent to the void which looks like the Wasteland in Mad Max. The villain that rules the void is a telepathic and psychotic despot Cassandra Nova, played by a bald Emma Corrin.

She played the younger princess Diana in The Crown TV series. Deadpool and Wolverine must save the Timeline.

The movie is 2 hours 8 minutes, Rated-R for every sex joke known to man, bloody, bloody violence, language of the rawest kind, with120 F-Bombs being the least of it. I’ve officially warned you, so who you see it with is up to you.

If I had any complaints, it could have been a little shorter, but it’s funny and entertaining enough, that is not a problem. The cameos are numerous, and each one is amazing!

I loved this movie and as much as I hate to say it, I hope it is the last one. Reynolds is saying it is, but the movie business is about money. Let’s don’t pull another Pirates of the Caribbean or even worse, A Hangover. Deadpool was great, Deadpool 2 was Greater, and this one was a little bit less great than the original, but you still don’t want to miss it!

My Score: 6 Cold Budweisers