the fabulous four & Deadpool and wolverine
THE FABULOUS FOUR
Directed by Joceylyn Moorhouse
Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally and Sheryl Lee Ralph star in this ridiculous boozy (and stoney!) comedy. Set in Key West during a bachelorette party, the key plot points don't matter. What we do get is a very game cast of all time legends giving exactly what the script asks for.
Essentially a 100 minute sitcom with everyone fully committed to the bit. We get multiple weed gummy scenes, lots of Bette Midler tiktoks, a green screen stunt and yes our cast does sing onscreen. I had a great time!
Take your mother to see this.
⭐⭐.5/4
DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
Directed by Shawn Levy
We're smack in the middle of (brat) summer. Beautiful weather, fun day parties (check the Oasis calendar!) and a big blockbuster release weekly. Despite flat mediocre trailers and a painfully strained marketing campaign, I truly had a little bit of hope for D&W. Unfortunately the movie is DOA.
2018's DEADPOOL 2 I regard as one of the great modern action comedies. Stuntman turned director David Leitch along with a peak Ryan Reynolds brought genuine punk energy to the whole picture. It was funny, thrilling and maybe just a bit naughty. He was the lovable black sheep kept to the sidelines by 20th Century Fox.
In the six long years since then, Fox is now Disney and with it brings D&W the task of revitalizing a struggling superhero genre. Leitch is out and in comes new director in the form of 60 year old frat bro Shawn Levy. What follows is a Disney mandated multiverse gobbledegook bore fest. No X-Force this time, just a tired never truly quite in on the joke Hugh Jackman. Our two stars have very little chemistry together despite what the relentless marketing wanted you to believe. With Jackman (able to do this in his sleep at this point ) acting alongside mostly masked Reynolds (easier to change all his crappy jokes in ADR) there is negative charisma onscreen.
Two hours of flop sweat, perfunctory sauce-less action scenes and relentless cameos that range from cute to stupid pointless and distracting. Sparse handful of laughs with a grating Reynolds and worst of all it truly feels like we're laughing at Hugh Jackman, not with him. I hated it!
1/2 ⭐ out of 4
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