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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-14 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:28:05 -0800
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On 11/15/24 8:17 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> On Nov 15, 2024 at 10:09:52 AM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 11/15/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>
>>>> On the day I woke up at 3:30am and couldn't get back to sleep, I finally
>>>> managed to get through "Deadpool & Wolverine", and also a Lifetime flick.
>>>>
>>>> So I watched:
>>>>
>>>> Deadpool & Wolverine (Disney+) - Going in, I expected this - but this
>>>> was definitely less funny than the first two "Deadpool" flicks,
>>>> especially "2" (which is my favorite).
>>>> And the recurring characters from the first two flicks, even Morena
>>>> Baccarin, get little more than cameos here (and T.J. Miller's character
>>>> is completely memory-holed without reference; Brad Pitt's "character"
>>>> from "2" is also inexplicably absent, though this one may have gotten an
>>>> oblique reference!).
>>>> In short, this flick suffered a lot of the same problems as "Ant-Man
>>>> 3" - generally ignoring cast/characters from the first two films; being
>>>> less funny (pretty much *un*funny in the case of "Ant-Man 3"!);
>>>> launching into a new "quest" with a new "big bad" that we don't
>>>> particularly care about - though this one is admittedly a lot better
>>>> than "Ant-Man 3"!
>>>> The other problem I had with this one was its deliberately much
>>>> closer integration with the rest of the "MCU" (and especially in the
>>>> recent "Multiverse" stuff) - the first two films worked as well as they
>>>> did, I believe, exactly *because* they were nowhere near the MCU, and
>>>> only had ties to 20th Century Fox's "X-Men" flicks. This one explicitly
>>>> *forces* both Deadpool, and Wolverine, into the MCU, and the film wasn't
>>>> the better for it, IMO.
>>>> What does work here are the cameos. I don't want to spoil it, but
>>>> some of the cameos actually wowed me, because I didn't see them coming,
>>>> and they tie this film in with some earlier franchise stuff that was
>>>> pre-MCU as well.
>>>> That said, I was disappointed that Channing Tatum was playing Gambit
>>>> here (yes, I know he's wanted the role for years!), and that poor Taylor
>>>> Kitsch was once again ignored.
>>>> Sidenote: I had totally - I mean totally! - forgotten that Chris
>>>> Evans was in the original "Fantastic Four" flicks!
>>>
>>> Oh, I did. And he was just as miscast in that as he was as Captain America,
>>> and as every other actor in the same role in the fantastic, four flicks has
>>> been.
>>>
>>>> Anyway, some of this does work - I really like the montage where
>>>> Deadpool tries to find himself a "Wolverine" in the Multiverse and keeps
>>>> getting brutally beaten by various versions (including by "The
>>>> Cavillrine"! Ha!!). And the creepy looking dog with the mutant tongue
>>>> ("Dogpool") is a great bit too.
>>>
>>> Apparently, one of those was Reynold’s daughter and one was his kid.
>>
>> Wouldn't daughter and kid be the same thing?
> 
> Potentially.
> 
> “Reynolds wife and one was his kid“
> 
> Blake Lively was “Ladypool” (voice)
> 
> Olin Reynolds was “Babypool”

Inez Reynolds was "Kidpool"

So, you were right the first time - it looks like Reynolds' daughter 
also cameoed.

And I don't see anyone else named Jackman in the credits, so I guess his 
kids weren't involved.