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I remember when Deadpool (2016) was released, it was literally said that, although it could hardly be called a perfect movie (perhaps due to the genre), it was a movie that definitely has nothing wrong or nothing to criticize. I, personally, give it a perfect 4.5 stars. And although with Deadpool 2 (2018) one could be a little more critical due to many nonsensical things that happen in it, it leaves the same feeling: a good movie without trying to do anything other than entertain you.

And we arrive at 2024, a year in which the only hope for Disney and the MCU is that the incorporation of the mouthy mercenary into their universe is a box office success. Unfortunately, it was.

I say "unfortunately" because, even though the movie was a box office success, I can't help but see everything that is wrong with it. You have Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine together on screen after almost 20 years of wanting it. It's impossible to say you don't have a good time at the cinema: you have fun, you laugh and you enjoy the action scenes, the references and the cameos to the fullest. OMG the cameos! Definitely, the best thing about this movie are the cameos from the FOX saga. But, if you take away the hype that those cameos create, you're left with only excellent protagonists, but without any good or even coherent backstory.

Although I'm not quite sure how the film industry works, I like to think that I would be a fan of writers, because, for me, they are the ones who create the stories, the most entertaining part. However, I find it incredible to think that, with so much money invested in movies, a writer cannot make a coherent and simple story that can be incorporated into the universe. This situation was caused by themselves by creating this multiversal mess, and at the same time making a criticism of the production system that is the film industry.

I know that the excuse can be that the writer does not follow the universe to the letter or watch all the movies they have made, but then, why does Disney expect us to do so in order to catch all the references they make? Why can't they just give the writers the basis so they can create a story that has the minimum congruence and fits, instead of adding more subthemes, developments and complexities about universes and time travel? Things that we don't need. We are at the stage where the MCU should start to come together, focusing on the ideas presented in all its different movies, and not creating more and complex situations that make no sense for those already described previously in the universe or for the viewers.

That's why, while the movie was a box office success and delighted us with the characters and cameos, it was definitely a failure in terms of the story and its connection to the MCU, which, by the way, is not even clear or established as to how the incorporation of the FOX universe will work. At least not for me. In my opinion, that won't happen. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) felt more like a closure and farewell to the FOX universe than a welcome to the Disney universe.