Whoever said Deadpool was going to suck probably only heard about the movie within the last year and would rather watch X-Men Apocalypse…ew. They’ve probably never read a Deadpool comic book in their life, and had no idea who he is until the hugely popular marketing campaign kicked into full swing. They probably didn’t like that either and made that very clear on IMDb. And they probably have absolutely no appreciation for Ryan Reynolds. But of course, they can’t always be right. Deadpool is kickass!
Deadpool is light on its feet, hilarious, action packed, and accessible, but also rude, crude, violent, sexy, and not for everyone! Also, the main character isn’t green or animated, which means his chances of appearing in the next Avengers movie are slim to none, which is great because Hollywood tried sanitizing him once before and that was a bitch to get through. Deadpool speaks his mind loud and clear regardless of who is listening via voiceover or right into the camera breaking like 16 walls with a verbal diarrhea-like spontaneity that is much appreciated given how boring narration tends to be these days. It’s also 100% authentic to the character of Wade Wilson aka Deadpool aka The Merc With A Mouth, and his personality and mannerisms, the narrative style of his comics, his schizophrenia propelled fourth wall breaks, and the coarse, crude, profane and violent fun fans have come to expect from this parody of the Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke DC Comics character.
He’s as much of an anti-hero as Daredevil, but with a wicked sense of humour and comic timing that lands him the woman of his dreams, Vanessa, who sees our anti-hero Wade Wilson for the crudely mannered tough guy with a heart full of unicorns and Wham! for who he really is. But just when things get good and Wade gets laid constantly with his new lover, his life takes a giant shit on his shoulders and gives him cancer in his lungs, liver, brain, and prostate. All things he can live without. Some sketchy dude that looks like he should stay 500 yards away from schools offers Wade a cure and super human abilities, so Wade leaves Vanessa behind to become a super something. Unlike Daredevil however, after weeks of grueling experimentation, his eyesight is still intact along with his sense of humour and garrulous ramblings, his cancer completely gone, but his skin is all Freddy Krueger. Wade dubs himself Deadpool after a gambling racket his buddy Weasel runs, and with the assistance of Weasel, Blind Al (a crude old lady that let’s Wade crash at her place during his time of need), X-Men characters Colossus (a shiny CGI hero) and the moody Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Wade sets out to kill the guy who made his face look like an avocado had sex with an older, more disgusting avocado…the British bad guy Ajax and his sidekick Angel Dust, a less angry Rosie O’Donnell.
Along the way, bullets fly, blood spills and swords separate limbs and heads from bodies, all while Wade cracks jokes every other minute and breaks the fourth wall more times than he shoots people (count it if you don’t believe me), none of which is a bad thing! Deadpool is a load of furiously funny, blood soaked fun, right from the first milliseconds of the film until the end of the post credits sequence. It’s not the first R rated comic book movie, it surely won’t be the last, and it doesn’t have a huge budget or a Zack Snyder in the director’s chair. But it has a lot of heart, a great deal of humour, and some wicked bloody action, all of which have helped push the film into record breaking infamy. As a meta comic book film, Deadpool makes similarly themed comic book movies like Kickass look like the cheap wannabes they’ve always been, and does so with balls and attitude to spare.
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