It feels like it has been ages since the last one, but after months of teasers, trailers, shout outs, set invasions, and alternative viral marketing finally we have Deadpool 2, the alternative comedy superhero franchise about a fast talking, possibly unkillable, potentially annoying man. The most simple, spoiler free review I can give is that this is more of the same but with a bigger budget. It’s more excessive violence, more quipping, more movie references, more fourth wall breaking. You will love/hate/like/ignore/shrug over it.
But me, I sort of like Deadpool for the same reasons I sort of liked The Borderlands franchise; it has the same over-the-top violence, the same over-use of terms like "fuckin A" and "badass", teh same confidence that it is going too far, even when it all feels kind of safe in this day and age. It also has wacky, laugh a minute gags, sometimes not quite as funny as the movie thinks it is. It has a progressive attitude baked into its writing, even though it's usually superficial and overwhelmed by the subject matter. I have friends telling me it is the best thing ever, but to me, Deadpool 2 is reasonably good. Fine. Decent. As is Borderlands.
This time around, Deadpool 2 insists it’s a family movie, though that’s a bit of a fib. Plotwise, the whole thing feels like a comedy version of the Bruce Willis movie Looper with added superheroes. This is fine. Earlier on, without going into spoilers, there is a somewhat lazy, disappointing writing decision with one of the main characters, but Deadpool 2 manages to recover by approaching the consequences of that decision in a novel way. It ultimately works as a nice contrast to the movie’s sorta antagonist Cabal; a killer cyborg with a po-faced, super edgy backstory. Deadpool seems to be painfully aware of its crappy 90s roots, and all too happy to take an axe to them.
Deadpool 2 is afforded a bigger scope this time around, but stops short of becoming the grandiose spectacle other Marvel movies turn into. for people looking for a gently obscene comedy vehicle, they can’t go wrong.
More of the Same
It feels like it has been ages since the last one, but after months of teasers, trailers, shout outs, set invasions, and alternative viral marketing finally we have Deadpool 2, the alternative comedy superhero franchise about a fast talking, possibly unkillable, potentially annoying man. The most simple, spoiler free review I can give is that this is more of the same but with a bigger budget. It’s more excessive violence, more quipping, more movie references, more fourth wall breaking. You will love/hate/like/ignore/shrug over it.
But me, I sort of like Deadpool for the same reasons I sort of liked The Borderlands franchise; it has the same over-the-top violence, the same over-use of terms like "fuckin A" and "badass", teh same confidence that it is going too far, even when it all feels kind of safe in this day and age. It also has wacky, laugh a minute gags, sometimes not quite as funny as the movie thinks it is. It has a progressive attitude baked into its writing, even though it's usually superficial and overwhelmed by the subject matter. I have friends telling me it is the best thing ever, but to me, Deadpool 2 is reasonably good. Fine. Decent. As is Borderlands.
This time around, Deadpool 2 insists it’s a family movie, though that’s a bit of a fib. Plotwise, the whole thing feels like a comedy version of the Bruce Willis movie Looper with added superheroes. This is fine. Earlier on, without going into spoilers, there is a somewhat lazy, disappointing writing decision with one of the main characters, but Deadpool 2 manages to recover by approaching the consequences of that decision in a novel way. It ultimately works as a nice contrast to the movie’s sorta antagonist Cabal; a killer cyborg with a po-faced, super edgy backstory. Deadpool seems to be painfully aware of its crappy 90s roots, and all too happy to take an axe to them.
Deadpool 2 is afforded a bigger scope this time around, but stops short of becoming the grandiose spectacle other Marvel movies turn into. for people looking for a gently obscene comedy vehicle, they can’t go wrong.