Deadpool 2 Movie Review

Deadpool 2 (2018)

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Written by: Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick & Ryan Reynolds (written by), Rob Liefeld, Fabian Nicieza (based on the marvel comics by)
Directed by: David Leitch
Starring: Josh Brolin, Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Zazie Beetz, TJ Miller, Brad Pitt, Bill Skarsgård, Matt Damon, Terry Crews, Alan Tudyk
Rated: R

Plot
Foul-mouthed mercenary mutant Wilson Wade (AKA Deadpool) and a team of fellow mutants protect a young boy with supernatural abilities from the time-traveling mutant Cable.

Verdict
If you know Deadpool,  you know what to expect. It's raunchy and irreverent. This isn't your typical super hero movie. It's part parody, a lot of dick joke type humor, and a gory action movie. There are a few new characters and X-Force recruit Domino is a great addition.
This is full of gags that overshadow a plot focused on family. While it doesn't break new ground like the first Deadpool, it's definitely a worthy successor.
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Review
The first Deadpool was crass, proving that super hero movies aren't always for kids and they take themselves way too seriously. Read my review.

Director David leitch is a former stunt man and an uncredited director on John Wick, going on to direct Atomic Blonde.

 

Deadpool 2, like the first, seeks to defy super hero conventions. It's a lot of fun. Ryan Reynolds chews the scenery as Deadpool, and the frequent breaking of the 4th wall helps bring us in to that. Deadpool is often the butt of jokes when he isn't panning to the audience. In one of the first few scenes, after many gruesome deaths, Deadpool emphasizes this is a family movie. While it seems like a jab, that joke pays off at the end.

The plot relies on subverting your expectations and doing what the typical super hero movie won't. If you're wondering whether the box office success will translate into Deadpool 3, it is already in development.

The first scene provides a hook as Deadpool then tells us how he got to this point. This trope is easy to do poorly, but it works here. While we don't get an opening scene like the first Deadpool, a 3d still of an action scene that was unique and original, we do get Deadpool doing what he does best, being a mercenary for hire.

Josh Brolin plays Cable.

After events that I won't spoil, Deadpool finds himself pitted against cyborg from the future Cable. Cable has come back to kill teenage mutant Russell/Firefist while Deadpool decides he must save the kid. This is after Colossus recruits Deadpool to the X-Men. Deadpool, the assassin that he is, has different methods from the X-Men.

Meet X-Force

Deadpool decides to form a splinter team, the oh so originally named, X-Force.  Comprised of Bedlam, Shatterstar, Zeitgeist, Vanisher, Domino, and Peter. His team, which from the start don't seem the most capable, have an interesting start to their first mission. Peter isn't even a mutant, he just saw the ad. Of course Deadpool wants him on his team. The most capable, and the one most criticized by Deadpool for her super power of luck is Domino, a breakout character. Zazie Beets is great in the role. If she doesn't come back in the planned sequel, it will be a huge mistake.

Her power of luck seems like a jab at heroes and movies with characters always getting extremely lucky. In this it's played to the extreme. You completely buy it because that's her power. If you're not familiar with the comics, that is the source material for Domino.

The music is impeccable. it almost always plays into a joke, with a lot of 80s hits, but it completely works. In few movies does the music tie so well the scene at hand.

 

This is crammed full of jokes and gags. The very first scene is an obvious Logan gag. There's a shout out to Basic Instinct, and characters are quick to add a one liner. Deadpool is aware of pop culture and rips into it any chance he gets.

Stay for the credits with a mid-credits scene that is a joke at the very plot of this movie while also lambasting the depiction of Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and Ryan Reynolds previous movie Green Lantern (2011).