'Deadpool and Wolverine' review: A love letter to a bygone era

'Deadpool and Wolverine' is a showcase for the bromance stylings of its stars, who pull out all the stops to cap Fox's Marvel movies.

If the word bombastic took steroids it might come close to describing the R-rated "Deadpool & Wolverine."

Vulgar, gory, with a "whiff of necrophilia" and irreverence to burn, it's a showcase for the bromance stylings of its stars, who pull out all the stops to lovingly put a cap on Fox's Marvel movies.

"Disney bought Fox," Deadpool explains, "[so there's] that whole boring rights issue."

At the film's start, it takes some doing to explain Wolverine/Logan's return from the dead — "Nothing will bring you back to life faster than a big bag of Marvel cash," Deadpool says to Wolverine's remains.

But once that convoluted (but action-packed) setup is out of the way, the film barrels through the plot with both fists flailing.

Before, during and after the big, bloody action sequences, the movie cheekily blurs the line between on-screen and off-screen life. Deadpool obnoxiously calls Logan "Hugh," and even takes a jab at Jackman's recent divorce. Later he leeringly mentions "Gossip Girl," the show that made Reynolds's wife, Blake Lively, famous.