While I knew this was more of a Deadpool movie going in, I was still expecting a little more from Wolverine. This still felt more like a Deadpool movie more than a team-up film, which is fine, though comments I saw from director Shawn Levy made me think it would be more even-handed between the two characters:
It's the third Deadpool movie, but it's not Deadpool 3. It's a different thing that's very much Deadpool and Wolverine. And it's not trying to copycat anything from the first two movies. They were awesome, but this is a two-hander character adventure.
I understand that the supporting cast of the previous Deadpool movies weren't featured much in this film, but Deadpool was still the main character, as was the 4th wall breaking framework from those films, while Wolverine was almost more like Cable in
Deadpool 2, where he had an important story arc but they didn't get into his character as much as they did with Deadpool. It was certainly more than Cable, but Logan's story felt always secondary to Deadpool's. I was hoping we'd get an actual flashback to the incident that made this Logan "the worst Wolverine," but I guess they thought it was too costly to try to shoot an entire action sequence set on an alternate earth, with presumably Wolverine murdering X-Men universe and MCU villains and heroes (presumably, they'd have to cast original X-Men stars and MCU stars, and also possibly digitally de-age them). But a sequence like that would've gone a long way to really making this a more even Deadpool/Wolverine movie, rather than a Deadpool movie with Wolverine. And it would've helped show just how terrible the actions of this alternate universe Wolverine were, and why he was consumed with guilt, rather than just him telling the story to Daphne/X-23.
I still really enjoyed it, and thought it did a great job of fan service that made sense in the context of the story.