As you probably remember, I belong to a minor group of audiences who feel that Deadpool is a pretty annoying superhero dude. I understand well that he is often incapable of not being your typical wisecracking loudmouth, but I do not think he is particularly interesting or amusing, and this impression of mine was only solidified more and more as I endured “Deadpool” (2016) and its 2018 sequel. Sure, you may laugh for a nearly endless series of self-aware jokes and winks, but, folks. I always get tired of him within a few minutes without much care or attention.

And the same thing can be said about “Deadpool & Wolverine”, one of the most shameless IP (Intellectual Property) smorgasbord I have ever seen during several recent years. Relentlessly throwing many IP jokes from the beginning to the end, the movie will surely please you to some degree if you remember every movie mentioned or ridiculed throughout the film, but there is not any really fresh substance for us, and this only reminds us more of our growing ennui with the excessive supply of superhero films at present.

This is quite evident from the decidedly violent and naughty opening sequence which may not amuse you if you admire a lot how “Logan” (2017) magnificently ends the story of its titular hero. I will not go into details for not spoiling any entertainment of yours, but this cheerfully gory and irreverent sequence surely shows us that nearly nothing is ever really serious in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) flicks – even when there are lots of blood and violence enough to be rated R.

Of course, Deadpool / Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) gladly and casually tells us how he ends up in such a messy (and bloody) situation. Not long after what happened in “Deadpool 2” (2018), he decided to live a less eventful life, and things have been fairly good for him for a while, but then he happens to get involved with the people of TVA (Time Variance Agency), which prominently appears in one of numerous MCU TV series out there (I am sure most of you will know which one I am referring to, by the way). Right after taken to TVA, Deadpool meets a high-ranking agent played by Matthew Macfadyen, and that is how he comes to learn that he must do another superhero adventure again.

However, Deadpool needs someone very important for saving his world, and that person in question is none other than James “Logan” Howlett / Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). Although Logan did die as shown in “Logan”, Deadpool has many other options for his person mission because, well, the movie is another MCU multiverse flick, and you will probably get some laughs as Deadpool searches for any suitable version of Wolverine for his mission.

Around the narrative point where Deadpool supposedly finds the right Wolverine (Is this a spoiler?), the movie keeps sprinkling more and more IP jokes onto the screen with a number of very, very, very self-conscious ones. Not long after Wolverine and Deadpool are hurled into a barren world which sometimes looks like a cross between the Phantom Zone in “Superman” (1978) and the vast wasteland background of “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015) and its recent sequel, we are introduced to not only the main villain played by Emma Corrin but also a bunch of familiar MCU superhero figures, and Deadpool and the movie certainly do no miss the chance to make fun of these figures at all.

While Deadpool and Wolverine try to save the day before it is too late for almost everyone in the multiverse, the movie naturally peppers the story with several action sequences as required, but these sequences are forgettable at best and mediocre at worst. I have often complained about how the action scenes in many other MCU movies do not feel dramatically or emotionally impactful enough to engage us, but “Deadpool & Wolverine” shows the bottom of this banality despite having heaps of superhero figures to play with. In case of one particular action sequence during the climactic part, it looks as smooth and fast as demanded, but the result feels so confusing and lackadaisical that you will lose the focus of your attention as trying to follow whatever is happening across the screen.

At least, the movie is supported well by the humorously mismatched duo performance by Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, both of whom surely know well how to play their respective characters. While Jackman brings some gravitas to the movie in addition to being a committed counterpart to his co-star, Reynolds willingly throws himself into lots of gags and jokes, and you may appreciate his comic talent to some degree even if you already got tired of his character just like me. Although the villain characters in the film are not so memorable as you can expect from your average MCU flick, Corrin and Macfadyen have some little fun with their supporting parts, and Macfadyen is especially good during his first scene with Reynolds early in the film.

On the whole, “Deadpool & Wolverine”, directed by Shawn Levy, does not change much of my inconsequential opinion on one of its two titular characters, but, considering the reactions of the audiences around me, you may enjoy it more than me. No matter how much Deadpool makes fun of the movie and its production company, this is still a movie solely for more money to grab, and I will surely have to endure him again if it earns enough for the production company to greenlight whatever will come next.