Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

We liked the other Deadpool movies a lot as well as others in the Marvel Comics Universe and this was fine, as far as I can recall after almost two months. Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool is his typically talky and snarky self and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is grumpy, as usual. Some highlights of the large cast include Emma Corrin, Chris Evans, Matthew Macfadyen, Morena Baccarin, Dafne Keen, Jon Favreau, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, and voices provided by Matthew McConaughey as Cowboypool and Reynolds' real-life wife Blake Lively as Ladypool.

Shawn Levy directs from a script by him, Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Zeb Wells. I did jot down at the time that the movie is about 50% fighting. Which inspires me to quote once again the brilliant cartoonist Nicole Hollander, who wrote in her comic strip Sylvia that a chick flick (which this definitely isn't) has "too much talking and not enough hitting." Note that the link takes you to what looks like daily new strips, but they are archival.

Rob Simonsen's original score can be streamed on Apple Music, as well as this playlist of many pop songs featured.

During one of those battles, a poster on the side of the bus pays the anticipated homage to Stan Lee (1922-2018), who created many of the Marvel characters. Viewers will also be rewarded with the customary post-credits scene.

Reynolds, Reese, and Wernick were last blogged for Deadpool 2, Corrin and Simonsen for Good Grief, Evans for Knives Out, Macfadyen for The Assistant, Baccarin for Millers in Marriage, Keen for Logan, Favreau for Elf, Delaney for Love at First Sight, Uggams for American Fiction, McConaughey for Interstellar, Lively for A Simple Favor, and Levy for This Is Where I Leave You. Wells has co-written one other feature and several other things.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics aren't fighting too hard, with an average of 78%, while its audiences are ready for battle at 95%. We streamed it May 30 with our subscription to Disney+.