Fresh Fish Served Daily

Hoo, boy. First off, if you have heard me talk about comics before you’ll know that I am not fond of Wolverine. He’s basically the Superman of the Marvel universe: healing powers and heightened senses mean that he’s practically impossible to kill, and to top it off he’s a right asshole about it. I do however enjoy him in the movies, because, HELLO, it’s Hugh Jackman. That man is so charming and opposite what Wolverine is actually like (in looks AND personality) and enough of that leaks through into his performance to make the character likable. This plus Ryan Reynolds playing Deadpool and that Gambit was finally in an X-Men movie was enough to make me want to see it.

Here’s the short, no-spoiler version of my review: “The canon version of Wolverine’s origin is too boring…let’s change it around, add some characters who are either completely absent from the original story or are completely different from what they should be, and throw in as many slo-mo ‘walking away from an explosion’ or ‘screaming at the sky’ scenes as we can. Oh, and don’t forget the kicky one-liners.”

After that review, you might think that I didn’t like the movie. You would be mistaken! It is gloriously cheesy, and there are fights and things blow up. Hugh Jackman runs around naked. There are like eighteen different twists, and you can see all of them coming from a mile away. Gambit makes some cards glowy. Deadpool is awesome. There are even three different scenes after the credits, depending on where you see it! It’s absolutely lovely, as long as you don’t think too hard. Or at all, really.

Also: someone give Ryan Reynolds a Deadpool movie! You can just pretend that Origins didn’t happen when writing the script for it.