This is both my favorite Deadpool film and yet another disappointing MCU film. This felt like Marvel made another Multiverse of Madness / Quantumania film in order to make fun of itself. It's like when the kid who's bullied loses so much self worth that it becomes what the bully sees him as and tries to appease the bully that way. Sorry for the stsnge analogy, but I hope you understand what I mean.

This film is entirely jokes (not as Raunchy as the previous films, thank you Disney!), nostalgic cameos and fan service, and largely meaningless action. It's written messily and lazily. Just like Multiverse of Madness, we see tons of quick, pointless cameos to appease the audience who somehow aren't largely tired of this yet. And just like Quantumania, this film takes the main character out of the world we've seen grow around him and into a place where nobody cares what happens to it as long as our character can get out. The plot is lazy and feels as bland as everyone MCU film feels these days. The villain is bad, and the McGuffin is stupid.

But the worst part is, Deadpool makes a joke about how these multiverse-type films have failed. Thus my bully-victim analogy above. This film is most what's wrong with many previous MCU films, and it knows and acknowledges this in the film itself. I don't understand what this film is. Is it mocking fans, showing they'll come to see the same crap over and over aagain?

Alternately, there seems to be an attempt at doing some MCU-style closure on the Fox Marvel films. I haven't seen most of them, so it didn't mean much to me, but at least there's that. The only character I'd seen before is X23 (just today from watching Logan for the first time before seeing DP3). I'm very disappointed in how they handled her character. While I'm going to assume a main version of her lives on in that respective universe, they don't ever even hint at that and she's the same X23 we see in Logan. Her scene (one scene where she actually does something besides stand around or fight) was great, but her character was severely wasted in my opinion. Further, without explaining whether she's a variant and the another one is still in that universe, I'm left to wonder if Logan died for her to just get zapped to the Void 10 years later.

So with all this complaining, why am I giving it a 5/10? Well, I'm happy this is less raunchy than the previous films. I'm also happy there's no sex scenes or nudity. At least Disney did something good for once! It was also somewhat fun, and some of the jokes were funny. Most of the jokes were annoying, but still. Wolverine was the best part of this film. He's like the only sane voice in this film as he continues to tell Deadpool to shut up. The acting is fine. The CGI isn't great, it's not bad, just typical MCU CGI. Also, the people I saw it with rated it around 8 so maybe I'm just being overlooked crítical as a former MCU fanboy who's grown up and sees the mess it's in now as I feel the need to show I've moved on from superhero films to bigger and better cinema.

None of this is to mention all the blasphemous stuff in this film. I decided to not let that impact my rating, but I'm considering boycotting MCU films from now on. The have Wolverine on a giant cross in one of the timelines, and Deadpool continuously refers to himself as "MCU Jesus." God will not be mocked. All Glory to Christ!

(This is film 76/100 for my 100 Films Summer Challenge 2024).