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Louis Peitzman’s review published on Letterboxd:
This review may contain spoilers.
I perked up when Jennifer Garner and Wesley Snipes showed up, but the novelty quickly wears off, and then you're still watching a bad movie.
Look, I went into this knowing it would not be my thing, so that's really on me, but I just don't get it. The vast majority of the jokes don't land (isn't it funny when men are attracted to men?), and the incessant meta shit just undermines any sense of stakes—which is already a problem in a movie that's asking me to care about two invulnerable superheroes beating the shit out of each other. No matter how much blood they shed, it simply does not matter.
The violence is relentless, but it's all CGI blood and flying limbs, and after a while your eyes just glaze over. The audience eats it up, though, so I guess I'm the freak for not shouting "let's fucking go!" at every cartoonish evisceration.
I'll give Deadpool & Wolverine this: Channing Tatum's Gambit voice is the one thing that made me laugh. And it did seem like Matthew Macfadyen was having a lot of fun. Good for him! Ultimately I feel like Kevin Feige loves jokes about how the MCU sucks now, but never does anything to make it suck less—and this will make a bajillion dollars, so I guess we're stuck in corporate merger IP hell for the foreseeable future.
