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Review: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Is Fun At Face Value, But Not Much Underneath - The discourse around the larger MCU has been interesting to monitor in recent years. The diehard fans seem content with a lot of Marvel’s recent efforts, but the casual fans seem to be growing tired of the multiverse saga. At least, that’s been my experience on social media. Film critics seem to pull less punches with the quality of each release. Unfortunately, I don’t see Deadpool & Wolverine swinging the momentum back to Marvel. The conversation around this film seems to range from “fun” to “hollow,” and maybe the answer is, as is often the case, somewhere in between. It’s an easy film. Sometimes, that’s all you need. Deadpool & Wolverine is bursting at the seams with the trademark Deadpool humor. The fight scenes are fantastic, specifically the ones we get between the Deadpool and Wolverine characters themselves, who are relentless in their pursuit of new ways to torture the other. It’s loaded with easter eggs, callbacks, and cameos - so if you’re the amateur detective and diehard Marvel fan, it’s fun to keep tabs on throughout the movie. And, it all plays out with a fantastic soundtrack laid on top of it all. Sometimes, that’s all you want. If that is enough for you, then I imagine you’ll leave the theater pretty well pleased. Personally, it was not enough for me. This is the latest in a slate of easy projects from Marvel. It is gratuitous fan service in a long line of movies and shows that have been gratuitous fan service, projects that rely on the element of surprise instead of character development and storytelling. I don’t think the situation with Jonathan Majors and the turmoil of the Kang character, who was clearly meant to be the MCU’s next big bad, helps matters. But, there’s a larger issue at hand with the aimless feeling permeating throughout the MCU’s current run. While this multiverse story sounds interesting on the surface, it erases the stakes from the universe when any variant of any character can be plucked from another universe at any time and inserted into what we’re watching. Emotional depth is the casualty here.