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... If this film was the other way around, a much older man persuing a much younger woman, it would be seen as a cute little movie right?

I dunno, maybe feels like this is creepy whichever way you flip the genders?

Like, she's supposed to be forty plus and he's supposed to be like early twenties or late teens. If Bridget Jones was Tom Jones chasing a teenaged or barely twenties girl... That'd be cool, right...?

Don't we usually call that grooming or an abuse of power dynamics or even an experience gap? This would very clearly be toxic if an older man was chasing a very young girl. Why aren't we calling this toxic as well?

Agonisingly bad at every second. Nobody can act. The writing is terrible. The costumes are either wrong for the period or utterly unbelievably cheap. Don't watch it. Not even as a joke. There is no redeeming quality. There is no moment of inspiration, insight or flurry of unexpected genius. It's an excruciating non event of a non film that insults the intelligence of the people viewing it. I still need 208 characters as I write this and it doesn't deserve them. Bad movie is bad. Bad movie is bad. Bad movie is bad. Padding my review to meet the character limit bad movie is bad. Bad movie is bad.

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.