DEADPOOL 2 Review

Deadpool 2 (2018)

A Review By Ben Hunter

4 Out Of 5 Stars

GET TO THE POINT BEN!

Don’t take the kids to see him. But rather let him remind you why your kids are important.

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Back from the intriguing and enjoyable vulgarity and filthy mature, adult comedy of the comic book realm, the sister to the drama side that our beloved Wolverine left us last year with Logan, is our beloved Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds is back to teach us a lesson about “family” in an atmosphere where kids are not allowed. But like many adult natured films, there are still kids a part of the story who helped make the film but would be wise to see it themselves. Go figure, real life involves everyone I guess.

Cable (Josh Brolin) is time jumping to find Russell (Julian Dennison), a kid in a mutant orphanage who will one day devastate and despoil more than Cable would care fore. So can Deadpool intervene and save the day? Thus saving the future? Not to mention we living now screw things up a lot in the future so, can we clean up our foul mouths and get our acts together for our children? Who teach us to be better and help them to be better for that future we think of.

This is the lesson our hero tackles this go round as he struggles with pain and how to overcome failure. To learn to push through when defeated, for it isn’t the end, and the start of something new. A lesson I can relate and reflect upon to better my future in my world. So the message is strong in this story, it’s not just laughs and gags for the sake thereof, so, it gets a high rating from me.

That being said, they are the top dog now. When last time they were the underdog. This wasn’t taken seriously from the studio, released in a safe time to recoup losses if needed. Now, it’s a summer kick off film fresh off the heels of Marvel’s big money maker (Infinity War). So DP2 played the “we’re still the little guy” position when that obviously wasn’t the case.  

Yoo-Hoo! He's back!!

I liked Cable, but there was a lull between Deadpool finding himself and Cable the supposed villain explaining himself to reveal the true villain and direction of the movie. I didn’t really know where it was going to go at this time or what it was going to be about. More leaving me in the dark versus leading me on in suspense. This reveal part should’ve been much sooner to develop the real villain and get a good story thread rolling to engage the audience and check off a successfully executed portion of the narrative. This was the problem with Iron Man 3.

Where they catering to the politically correct crowd of Twitter? They got all the quims right, to the T! Or was it all a joke to poke fun at how ridiculous this has all become because everyone on both sides is so engaged? Who knows? And that’s a good thing!

But I wanted more. Breaking the 4th wall is Deadpool’s trademark, as birthed from his comic book origins translated to his film origins, so I wanted this to call out the craziness going on today and maybe still towing the line somehow. “Oh my gosh! We killed everyone in X-‘Force’! (can’t call it X-‘Men’!) ... But come on now, we can’t kill the girl, that would be sexist! And a BLACK girl at that (Domino/Zazie Beets) … DAS RAY-CIS!!!” They already kept playing up the “everything is racist” card with DP’s & Cable’s relationship. So a constant check on society to infuse the humor in an overly sensitive political climate and social atmosphere is what I was hoping for. They gave us a lot, but my stomach wasn’t full. DP can do this now because it’s his trademark.

Still, even with it not matching the first film (the underdog surprise hit is hard to one up) it is an entertaining film that more than suffices. Just don’t take the kids to it. However, it is a family film. Go see it and let DP spell it out for you himself and explain why!

We’re in a new age of comic book movies! After Infinity War, and more importantly the Easter eggs of Deadpool 2, I could feel the old of previous eras shedding off and dawning a new hood. Again, let DP demonstrate this for you himself.

Deadpool 2 (2018)

Action Comedy, 119 Minutes, R

Based on the Marvel Comics By: Rob Liefeld & Fabian Nicieza

Written By: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, & Ryan Reynolds

Directed By: David Leitch

Cast: Josh Brolin, Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Zazie Beetz, Brianna Hildebrand, T.J. Miller, & Julian Dennison