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”Deadpool & Wolverine”
Regi: Shawn Levy
Screenplay: Shawn Levy, Rhett Reese, Ryan Reynolds. Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin and others. Length: 2 hours, 7 minutes (from 15 years). Language English. Cinema premiere
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Presidential candidates in all glory, but is anyone working as hard to bring polarized America’s drifting brains together as Hollywood screenwriters?
One only has to see the poster with Wolverine and Deadpool in the same picture to form romantic notions about the friendship between the grim, whiskey-sipping war veteran Wolverine and the snack-loving, metrosexual Deadpool.
The former growls, the latter is so politically correct that he can juggle a hundred incorrect insults in a sentence without dropping a single one on the wrong side of the line. But both have their hearts in the right place.
The clash of genres is admittedly a challenge. As a supporting role in the X-men films, Deadpool was rather pointless, as the main character in his own films he became a comic sensation.
Ryan Reynolds som Deadpool.
Foto: Alamy
Wolverine, on the other hand, attracted increasingly darker and more doom-laden tragedies.
Also, the old wolverine is actually dead. His heart thoroughly and thoroughly pierced by a tree branch at the end of James Mangold’s grief-laden “Logan” from 2017. Will he now just pop back up, like Bobby Ewing out of the shower? (ask your parents, don’t have time to explain) Should the audience have to pretend they haven’t mourned him for eight years?
No. “Deadpool & Wolverine” tackles the problem directly, elegantly and with wonderful ease right from the opening scene, when Deadpool tries to dig his old hero out of the forest grave. With surprising results…
Emma Corin breathes new life into the cliche British villain
The two anti-heroes end up eventually in “The void”, a Mad Max-like desert with ruins from various films and a resistance group consisting of half-forgotten Marvel heroes. The Void is controlled by Professor Xavier’s creepy twin sister who also reads minds, but only if she can put her fingers in your brain. Emma Corrin (the young Diana in “The crown”) gives new life to the cliché British villain. Things are worse for Matthew Macfadyen (“Succession”), who is never completely convincing in the role of the villainous multiverse engineer Paradox.
Hugh Jackman I’m Wolverine. Photo: Alamy
On the one hand, “Deadpool & Wolverine” has it all: for over two hours, dirty dialogue at a high meta level is interspersed with beautifully orchestrated, sometimes disgusting, carnage to cleverly chosen music.
On the other hand, it has too much. It becomes a self-propelled machine that spits out so many layers of bullshit and intrigue that they eventually boil together into a sticky mass. Especially Jackman’s Wolverine, who needs some silences and atmosphere to come into his own, gets stuck. Ryan Reynolds always manages and the film is best at the beginning, when it has a foot in his sunny everyday life. Like the brilliant scene where a copper-scarred, toupee-wearing Wade applies for a job as an Avenger, but doesn’t get any further than the middle manager (Jon Favreau) who politely lets him know that he lacks suitable hero qualities. Low-key, twisted and insanely fun.
In short, there are plenty of raisins here, but not much for cake.
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Tre favoriter med Wolverine: ”X-men origins. Wolverine” (2009), ”X-men. Days of future pasts” (2014), ”Logan” (2017).
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