Dir: Shawn Levy, Writers: Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells, Shawn Levy | Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Matthew Macfadyen | US Actioner 127′
The screen’s nerdiest superhero returns in tandem with Wolverine in a tale that probably owes as much to Shawn Levy’s earlier comedies as to Marvel comics.
The humour’s perversely juvenile considering – although it includes references both visual and verbal to other movies and the film business in general to tickle the tummy of the cinema-savvy – since the bad language, sex talk and eye-watering violence means it carries a 15 certificate.
As usual the characters devote more energy to fighting amongst themselves than evil-doers, and when they eventually do it’s almost as an afterthought.
Predictably it’s overlong and garrulous with several false endings; as our hero ruefully admits in one of the last of his frequent breaches of the fourth wall. @RichardChatten
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