‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ review: Fantastic buddy comedy gives the MCU new hope

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getting ripped to shreds by critics.While retaking its cinematic crown will be a challenge, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is a giant, promising step forward for the franchise.Director Shawn Levy’s laugh-a-second movie is easily the best Marvel has delivered since 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and provides similarly nostalgic pleasures in its whiplash-inducing number of retro cameos — none of which I’ll spoil, for fear of my own life.Safer to reveal is that since the events of 2018’s “Deadpool 2,” Wade has been wading through his daily routine, lacking heroic purpose.Meta as ever, he also gives us a corporate refresher course. “Disney bought Fox, there was a boring rights issue, blahdeddy blah,” Deadpool says.

There’s another terrific gag about the House of Mouse and a certain sex act that I won’t write, for fear of my own job.Wade still shares an apartment with Blind Al (Leslie Uggams) and was crushed to be rejected by the Avengers.

Miserable, he’s stuck selling used cars.It’s at his birthday party when Wade is unceremoniously summoned by the Time Variance Authority, the mysterious group that protects the “sacred timeline” (a multiverse thing that was on the Disney+ show “Loki”).Deadpool’s Earth, the eccentric TVA head Mr.