Review by sventempest

The first two deadpool movies were stand-alone fun and hijinx. This was sold as being the same but in fact was an MCU movie with all the requirement you be a Lore expert in thirty odd movies and months worth of average to mid TV series.

It's so concerned with being a metatextual goodbye to films we've forgotten about that it forgot to be a film. To be clear, I'm the kind of Nerd who laughed at Liefield's Shoes. I'm that dork they make the references for. But the entire film is references, baskets of Easter Eggs being poured over you until you're numb.

I didn't want another MCU movie.

MCU movies are work these days. Exhausting work that even nerds like me feelime a chore.

I stopped reading the comics owing to the need to know decades of convoluted backstory.

I lost interest in the MCU after Endgame Part 1 because I realised there were never going to be stakes again. And now it also need a decade of convoluted backstory to understand.

I went into Deadpool 3 hoping for a refreshing stand-alone super hero story that capped the trilogy. Instead I got another exhausting franchise meta narrative that killed its own characters to shove itself into the MCU mold.

Rant over, go see the next episode in Marvel, Tony Stark is Doctor Doom in a bad suit now and we're all supposed to care.