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First Reactions to “Deadpool & Wolverine” Say the Chemistry is Explosive in MCU Game Changer

July 23, 2024
By The Credits

The first reactions for director Shawn Levy’s Deadpool & Wolverine have arrived, and critics and everyone else with a press screening and social media account are weighing in. The overall sentiment appears to be LFG. The long-awaited pairing of Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with the Mouth and Hugh Jackman’s mutant berserker and iconic X-Man has been high on the MCU fan wishlist, and it seems like they’ve delivered. And while sure, the two faced off 15 years ago in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, as far as fans are concerned, that portion of Wolverine’s timeline isn’t as important as the one we’ll be faced with in Deadpool & Wolverine, which marks the true first, proper mash-up of the “new” Deadpool, lovingly created by Reynolds and the Deadpool creative team (including writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese), and Jackman’s legendary bruiser. Now, the Deadpool brain trust are back, with Levy directing the franchise for the first time and Zeb Wells joining Wernick and Reese on scripting duties, and the result is a new two-hander that posits a world in which Deadpool recruits a very different Wolverine from the hero who died tragically but heroically in James Mangold’s 2017 banger Logan to try and help him save the people he loves.

Monday night marked the first chance critics got a look at the movie, and with their reactions pouring in online and full reviews coming later today, tet’s have a glance at what the folks are saying so far. Deadpool & Wolverine slashes into theaters on July 26.

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Featured image: (L-R): Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan in 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios’ DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. Photo by Jay Maidment. © 2024 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2024 MARVEL.

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