Deadpool & Wolverine
"A FILM REVIEW WITH SPOILERS"
- A Narada
Film Review
Produced, Directed, Written by Ryan Reynolds & Shawn Levy
A large slice of Planet Earth, eager to see an actual watchable post-Covid Hollywood film, rushed out and spent $200,000,000 dollars on tickets in the first week alone. And it was watchable, but just barely. The consensus is - however enjoyable it was to see 'an old friend' in Deadpool, our old friend tended to be pretty much the proverbial one trick pony on Deludamol. Lest we forget, the only source of disappointment is unrealistic expectations.
We ask ourselves, is it possible to have too much potty-mouth in a single film? We ask ourselves is it possible to have so much adolescent innuendo that we come to believe we are watching Beavis & Butthead? Is it possible to be too 'camp'? Is it possible to have so many action-stops / talking to the camera that we lose the 'excitement'? Sadly Deadpool 3 answers these questions with a resounding, "Yes".
One of the requirements for a successful sequel is originality. However we see that Deadpool 3 lost no time borrowing huge tracts from Beyond Thunderdome while running through the outback, and copying the unending impossible fight scenes from Jet Li's The One, and a horrific bodycount from The Lord Of The Rings. Oh well, as they say - 'Nothing new under the Sun'...
Are they going to have another sequel? Not likely - they have gone over-the-top in every category, - nothing left to be done that hasn't already been over-done. -Once a superhero (or in this case, superheros plural) saves the Universe, it becomes a hard act to follow.
But it wasn't all bad, we did get to see, after all, Wesley Snipes and Hugh Jackman and Leslie Uggams... This alone will keep me jacked until the prequel...
21/2 Stars out of 5
* (but only because the acting, taken on its own, was great.)
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