Alright, happy people.

I did it.

I watched it.

After rehearsing for a month to do so.

I watched Deadpool and Wolverine and survived to the end.

It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t pretty. I thought I was going to enter a comatose state plenty of times. And, throughout the entirety of it, I kept reenacting this thought regarding Marvel, regarding Disney:

Appropriate, considering that Deadpool and Wolverine is a meme film. A meme festival. And look, I love memes. I didn’t love this movie—not even close—but I got the references. They weren’t funny.

So here’s my question for Deadpool fans: did you have fun? Actual fun?

This movie is clearly not made for me. Don’t get me wrong, I was an MCU fan at some point (before it went downhill—read: after Endgame), and I quite enjoyed Deadpool’s first two films. They were quite amusing to watch. They had stories and jokes and the occasional, expected fourth-wall break.

What I watched yesterday… wasn’t it.

Perhaps it was because I was sceptical of the pairing for starters. Wolverine and Deadpool seem an odd match. I read some things about Deadpool and Spider-Man in the past, and let me tell you, that dynamic works and it is hilarious.

Deadpool is there for the chaos while Spider-Man needs to clean up after his mess. It’s the classic straight man and the wild, oafish comic routine. Love it. Now, we put together two characters that do not care about anything and are morally grey—resulting in a story with little to no stakes—where the dialogue is dependent on current news and memes, and where what might keep you from getting up from your seat is the question of who’s the next cameo that’s going to pop up on the screen?

Hmm… I’m not sold.

It doesn’t help that we’re getting the skeleton of this story from Loki, whose execution was blasé at best. And of course, this is my own bias talking, but I do think the DC multiverse is a little bit more interesting than Marvel’s.

Don’t get me wrong, the movie has some—very few—moments. Nicepool is a gem (and looking back, I’m afraid he was the one thing that made me laugh, by ‘gently breaking the fourth wall’). The fight at the end is actually amusing. The villainess has some finesse, maybe simply because the actress seems like she’s actually having fun. And Wolverine wearing the classic outfit is a gift to the fans (Jackman made that outfit look really good).

But in order to get to the exciting scenes, you have to go through such lengthy dullness that I can’t think of why people should actually waste their money to go and watch this one.

Oh, wait. I do know. No agenda.

That’s a very good positive point, in truth.

And the millions of (useless) cameos.

Of course, my question to the fans is, after the hype is gone, after they forget all the references that are condemned to die in the sands of time (because, willingly or not, this is a movie that will get dated quickly), will they still like this movie? Or will they see it for the feverish dream it was?

Classification: 5/10