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Why ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Is the Year’s Most Depressing Success Story
For all its self-deprecating quippery, 'Deadpool & Wolverine' represents corporate brand synergy at its most ruthlessly savvy and soulless.
This cavalier attitude toward storytelling integrity and artistic purpose is a joke that is connecting in a big way with the film’s target audience: For patient Marvel fans who have stuck with a tangled network of superhero franchises through thick and thin, it perhaps feels validating to hear some admission of error from on high. Emma Corrin’s cut-glass villain barely registers as a threat or a foil to Deadpool and Wolverine’s expensively maneuvered partnership; a gaggle of cameoing stars from the Fox superhero archives are introduced and summarily abandoned, there simply to tap an extra reserve of fan nostalgia. Any sense of visual or physical spectacle is, it feels, deliberately shrunk to avoid earnestness: The film’s most enjoyably eccentric flourish, a large-scale fight scene choreographed to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer,” still functions principally as a snickering nod to Deadpool’s proclaimed (but only superficially detailed) queer identity.
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