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Deadpool & Wolverine isn’t particularly good. But it’s so determined to beat you down with its incessant irreverence that you might submit anyway.

The picture arrives, of course, at a fallow time for Marvel, after a string of duds and an abortive attempt to introduce a new superhero phase following the climactic, stage-clearing (and absurdly lucrative) battles of Avengers: Endgame. “G’day, mate, there’s nothing that will bring me back faster than a big bag of Marvel cash,” Deadpool chirps in a Jackman-adjacent Aussie accent early on, when it looks like Wolverine will remain as dead as he was at the end of James Mangold’s Logan. You’re joining it at a bit of a low point.” I can’t remember if he said this while standing against the ruins of an old 20th Century Fox logo in a blasted desert dimension called the Void, where useless things go to die; perhaps that was a later scene.

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