Deadpool and Wolverine thoughts
I was really snooty about Deadpool. The MCU superhero formula of just-snarky-enough humour was going great guns, so why should I worry about what lesser studios were doing? All that potty-mouthed fourth wall breaking seemed kinda adolescent and, well, desperate. At some point this year, post Disney-Fox merger and with the MCU in crisis mode , I conceded that maybe I'd been a key driver in my daughter's obsession with poos and farts, and I should probably give Ryan a chance. I watched the first one: Reynolds and his collaborators do nothing by halves, positively wallowing in their ironic depravity. But it also had a proper story arc with surprisingly high emotional stakes. It is, shock horror, a very good film. Kevin Feige presumably intended Deadpool and Wolverine to be a disposable palate-cleanser, but with popular opinion turning against the MCU it's become more like a last-chance saloon for Kev, Disney and even superhero flicks in general. Can it stop the rot? ...