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Deadpool & Wolverine is a desperate Hail Mary

Lots of X-Men cameos, even more dick jokes.

But the sheer number of dick jokes and digs at Marvel’s flops play like an ineffective distraction from how little story there is to latch onto as Wade dives into the multiverse in search of a Wolverine variant suitable to serve as the “anchor being” a dying reality needs to survive. But as accurate as Wade’s assessments of Fox’s missteps are, they ring somewhat hollow coming from a Feige-produced project given how Marvel Studios built the MCU with a very similar approach that positioned characters like Captain America and Iron Man as its load-bearing centerpieces. Similarly disappointing is how, despite all the screen presence Emma Corrin commands as classic X-Men villain Cassandra Nova with her nauseating brand of telepathy, she’s yet another instance of Marvel squandering a promising character in a film that doesn’t seem to know what to do with its antagonist beyond making her seem like someone with a far more interesting story to tell.

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