Of all complaints, I don't see how this changed the canon of the MCU. Deadpool rubbed up against the MCU main universe, but was only for the briefest time actually inside of it. It was a harmless penetration of the MCU canon. Deadpool spent most of the time with Fox characters and fighting on the island of misfit toys.
I enjoyed it, 3.5/5 stars, but there are issues beyond the self referentiality.
It feels overlong. The constant fights between Deadpool and Wolverine grow tiresome. The swearing is at the level of a 12 year old trying to be edgy.
Those are actual complaints that don't involve the subject matter, which I'm totally down for. I was slightly disapponted they went with a Music Man reference instead of Greatest Showman, but fine, whatever.
I give a pass to a lot of this movie because the self referential aspects were essentially the purpose of the movie. This is a movie saying goodbye to Fox Marvel movies.
Every moment of "Hey remember that?" where the audience points at the screen was also to give audiences who grew up with those movies an assurance those old movies get a send off.
Unrelated, this frame contains the single most deep pull joke in a Deadpool movie and I actually smiled a true nerd smile in theater when I saw it. "Liefeld's Just Feet Shoe Store."
It was entertaining. It wasn't horrible. I liked the cameos with the villain. It wasn't a masterpiece. But it was fun. I liked the fights between Wolverine and Deadpool. They showed their relationship and it made the ending make sense.
Where it was lost is that it was not the silly Deadpool that was in the first two. I wish there were more parts with the prior two casts that drove the ending and story. But it was already long.
I would watch it again. It's better than the latest Thor and a needed addition to the MCU.
Since when was Deadpool part of the MCU? Yes it's Marvel, but it's its own thing on the side and for a different audience. Just like the spiderverse movies aren't part of the MCU.
This isn't journalism, this is someone gaining clicks from the topic of the day.
Deadpool & Wolverine is listed under "Marvel Movies," whereas Deadpool 1 & 2 are listed under "Other Movies." This is the best source I can find that D&W is part of the MCU.