{"id":4227,"date":"2025-04-08T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:46:27","slug":"movie-deadpool-wolverine-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/movie-deadpool-wolverine-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Deadpool &#038; Wolverine (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/4\/4c\/Deadpool_%26_Wolverine_poster.jpg\/220px-Deadpool_%26_Wolverine_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Deadpool &amp; Wolverine\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" \/>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Year: 2024<br \/>Rating: R<br \/>Length: 128 minutes \/ 2.13 hours<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the early success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) proved how Marvel could successfully adapt their comics to the big screen, there was always this itch that couldn&#8217;t be scratched. This was because certain properties like <em>X-Men<\/em> and <em>Spider-Man<\/em> were &#8220;trapped&#8221; at other studios like 20th Century Fox and Sony, respectively. Through mergers and other agreements, some of these franchises came back under the Marvel umbrella (via Disney), allowing <em>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/em> (2024) to scratch that crossover itch\u2014finally.<\/p>\n<p>While this isn&#8217;t the first time that 20th Century characters have appeared in a mainline MCU entry (with <em>WandaVision<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/movie-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness-2022\/\"><em>Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness<\/em><\/a> (2022) having those distinctions), <em>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine <\/em>felt like the proper send-off for these 20th Century characters. After all, it&#8217;s likely we wouldn&#8217;t even have an MCU if it weren&#8217;t for the superhero films like <em>X-Men<\/em> (2000) that came before <em>Iron Man<\/em> (2008). In a way, <em>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/em> was to 20th Century superhero films what <a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/movie-spider-man-no-way-home-2021\/\"><em>Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em><\/a> (2021) was to the Sony <em>Spider-Man<\/em> films\u2014a recognition of the past and a passing of the torch to the future.<\/p>\n<p>Even if <em>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/em> only felt tangentially related to the MCU (via the Time Variance Authority (TVA) explored in the <em>Loki<\/em> TV show), the primary draw here is the interaction between the titular leads. Both Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman were meant to play their respective characters. Finally having them together on the same screen was a fun way to fully take advantage of that R rating that previous <em>Deadpool<\/em> and <em>Wolverine <\/em>movies have enjoyed. And even if it felt odd that some of the previous characters from these movies were missing from the big farewell, this film was a great conclusion to decades of these iconic characters.<\/p>\n<p>A farewell and passing of the torch for superhero films, I give <em>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-640x244.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadpool &amp; WolverineYear: 2024Rating: RLength: 128 minutes \/ 2.13 hours Ever since the early success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) proved how Marvel could successfully adapt their comics to the big screen, there was always this itch that couldn&#8217;t be scratched. This was because certain properties like X-Men and Spider-Man were &#8220;trapped&#8221; at other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[3845,4072,1888,361,4071,278,84,779,780,13,368,8,2900,39,4073,594],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-movie","tag-3845","tag-20th-century-fox","tag-comic-book","tag-deadpool","tag-deadpool-wolverine","tag-hugh-jackman","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-mcu","tag-movie","tag-multiverse","tag-review","tag-ryan-reynolds","tag-superhero","tag-tva","tag-wolverine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4231,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/4231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}