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There is nothing funny about the film’s jokey title, which is just a strained metaphor.—Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025 Despite more complicated challenges, the cast are as jokey and jovial as ever.—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025 This is the last jokey metaphor in a franchise built on jokey metaphors!—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2025 Even the jokey post-credits scenes tend to have some significance (like the payoff of Red Guardian finally getting to be on a Wheaties box in Thunderbolts*), and many of the other sorts of post-credits scenes contain jokes.—James Grebey, Vulture, 24 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for jokey
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