Deadpool & Wolverine

NO SPOILERS!!!!

Saw DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE last night at a 3D IMAX Preview and my face still hurts from laughing. Hilariously violent, action-packed and loaded with superb cameos, it's the greatest meta-inside joke that's ever blown up the Marvel Universe.

Ryan Reynolds nails every punch line, and there must be 1000 of them, bathed in a thousand buckets of blood.

Deadpool opens the film with his superhero days behind him. He's just striving to belong.

Just when you think the film is going to be a Disney-fied adventure with our sarcastic hero in search of his feelings, the action explodes and never lets up.

I am intentionally not going to describe any of the plot, because the JOY of the movie is discovering everything it has up its red & black sleeves. NO SPOILERS.

Writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese are back from the first two Deadpool films and are joined this time in the writing room by Ryan Reynolds. The first two installments were hilarious from start to finish. But everything this time out is elevated by the Disney buyout of Marvel and the demise of 20th Century Fox.

Relentless laugh-out-loud one-liners and gigantic action set pieces skewer Disney/Marvel and Fox again and again.

It's especially deft at making fun of the out of control Marvel Multiverse.

In your face, the characters often break the fourth wall and talk direct to you in the audience. In less capable hands, nothing can take you out of the film faster, but not here. The punch lines land again and again.

Hugh Jackman is perfect as the most pissed off Wolverine you've ever seen. If you're like me, your probably think that "Logan" was one of the best X-Men films and a perfect send off for a legendary character. In the first five minutes, Reynolds and team manage to not only honor that film but then dig up its memory and piss all over its grave with such a relentless barrage of blood-letting that it instantly becomes the best Deadpool title sequence of all time. Fans know that's no easy feat.

Emma Corrin (The Crown) is a superb baddy. When she gets her fingers into you, you'll know it.

Matthew Macfayden (Pride and Prejudice) is also a welcome add as a....you know what, I'm not saying a word, but his Mr. Paradox is funny as hell.

I need to see this again soon, to see every Easter Egg, reference and visual joke I missed the first time around. Director Shawn Levy keeps the frame filled and the pace flying, creating a superb buddy comedy that just happens to be between two superheroes that hate each other.

One fight sequence near the end is an incredibly clever send up of every Marvel battle sequence of the past. Once the Madonna song kicks in, get ready to rumble. I couldn't stop laughing for five minutes.

The songs featured throughout nail every scene. It's an R-rated twist on a "Guardians of the Galaxy" jukebox. Great soundtrack..

In one scene, a young boy says "That's Wolverine!", Reynolds responds,

"You damn straight it is. Disney brought him back. They're gonna make him do this till he's 90."

In another sequence, Deadpool threatens a bad guy, saying if he doesn't back off, he's going to have Wolverine sing the entire second act of "The Music Man".

When Deadpool first teams up with Wolverine, he says "Welcome to the MCU. You're joining at a bit of a low point." LOL. Indeed.

"The Marvels", "The Eternals" woof.

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE wipes the slate clean of those recent debacles and hopefully sets up a fresh new direction for the next films. It will be very hard for them to go back to the multiverse/overstuffed world they've recently been drowning in after this huge and brilliant take down of all things MCU.

Thank you, Marvel Jesus.

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE is a fresh, nostalgic and profane masterpiece and easily ranks as the best of the trilogy, earning an A+.

Stay through the end credits for one last big laugh.

I haven't seen a packed house walk out of a movie this happy in a long time.

This thing is going to be HUGE.

Here's the latest trailer!