The Merc with a Mouth finally appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Deadpool & Wolverine merges the 20th Century Fox X-Men films into the MCU. Serving as the latest Phase Five installment and a third Deadpool film, the film reprises the title role as Wade Wilson, the wisecracking superhero who comes face to face with the Time Variance Authority. (For those who haven’t caught the Loki TV series on Disney+, the TVA is the organization that oversees the show’s multiple timelines.) Wade must now team up with a variation of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to save the timeline from a villain played by Matthew Macfadyen.

Deadpool & Wolverine is a cinematic delight. It’s a loving ode to decades of Marvel multimedia projects, but it’s just as loud, brutal, and bloody as the first two Deadpool films. It’s a brilliantly entertaining experience that should be seen by as many audiences as possible. When Jackman hung up his claws in 2017’s Logan, the world thought we were done with that iteration of the character. But if anyone was going to get Jackman back in Wolverine, it was his real-life friend Ryan Reynolds. And who better to direct than Shawn Levy, the man who directed Jackman in Real Steel and Reynolds in Free Guy and The Adam Project?

Deadpool and Wolverine are a match made in heaven. Reynolds and Jackman have phenomenal on-screen chemistry. Like all great comedy duos, we have the funny guy (Deadpool) and the serious guy (Wolverine). Deadpool is at his funniest when he clashes with more serious characters, and we saw that in 2018 with Josh Brolin's Cable.