DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
The Merc with a Mate
“So how do you deal with crotch rot?” “Embrace it”.
“Welcome to the MCU, you’re joining at a bit of a low point,” says Ryan Reynolds’s wise-cracking Wade Wilson to Hugh Jackman’s dourer-than-usual Logan partway through Deadpool & Wolverine.
It’s a big laugh, the sort of cheeky metafictional gag that these movies are famous for, but it’s also one that cuts surprisingly close to the bone. Even the most die-hard fans of Marvel’s world-conquering mega-franchise would struggle to deny that things have felt a little shaky in the House of Feige of late.