Instead, Deadpool 2 feels most confident when it gleefully does the exact opposite of what the audience expects - or, in many cases, what the audience wants - while snarking and smirking the entire way.
They’re expected at this point, table stakes for the Deadpool character, and many of them have already been spoiled in the movie’s many trailers.
But they don’t pack quite the same punch this time around. The meta jokes the first film delighted in are all there and accounted for - Deadpool calls out DC movies, The Goonies, Batman, and Ryan Reynolds’ own less-stunning career performances, among countless others. It’s no spoiler to say that the X-Force sequences are hilarious, unexpected, and utterly outrageous at times, displaying a freewheeling willingness to cross every line imaginable, in ways that provoke as many cringes as laughs. And coming off the heels of Avengers: Infinity War, the satire couldn’t be more perfectly timed.
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( Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz, as Domino, is particularly memorable.) Where the original movie was able to upend all expectations about what a superhero film should be, Deadpool 2 upends expectations about superhero team-ups. Some members of X-Force have already been highlighted in the film’s trailers, but those quick two-minute clips don’t reveal that the X-Force shenanigans make up some of the film's strongest moments. X-Force shenanigans make up some of the film’s most memorable moments
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This time, however, he decides to recruit some allies to fight alongside him in his own superhero group: X-Force. With his healing abilities gone, Wade would prefer to wallow in his angst and simply fade away, but when a time-traveling cybernetic soldier named Cable (a grim Josh Brolin) arrives from the future with murder on his mind, Wade is drawn into donning the Deadpool mask once again. Soon, Wade is rendered powerless and thrown into prison alongside a young pyrokinetic mutant named Russell ( Hunt for the Wilderpeople’s Julian Dennison). Deadpool is Deadpool, however, and his arrogant bravado is able to turn even the simplest mission into a complete and utter disaster. After a personal setback, Wade (Ryan Reynolds) begins to question the point of the superhero business, and it's only after Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) bring him in as an X-Men trainee that he begins to come around. Warning: mild spoilers for Deadpool 2 below.Įven though the film is about a character who's all swagger and almost no smarts, Deadpool 2 heads in an unexpected direction early on: it makes Deadpool - also known as Wade Wilson - doubt himself.
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The result isn't as novel as the original, or as effortlessly kinetic, but it is nevertheless a joke-packed action film that continues to deliver on the character's potential, while opening up the door to an even bigger series of sarcastic superhero adventures. We now live in a post- Deadpool world, and with the element of surprise no longer part of its arsenal, the inevitable Deadpool 2 has to go about the more traditional business of crafting a sequel that delivers on fan expectations, while also giving them just enough of a fresh twist that the entire thing doesn’t feel completely cynical. Deadpoo l's creators clearly knew how silly superhero movies had become, recognized that audiences also knew it, and mixed it all up into an R-rated romp that brought in more than $780 million worldwide, while costing just a fraction of the price tag on an average DC or Marvel tentpole.īut studios and filmmakers learned the lessons of Deadpool quickly, with James Mangold’s Logan embracing the visceral intensity an R-rating can allow, and Marvel practically lampooning itself with Taika Waititi’s hilarious Thor: Ragnarok. Comics fans may have already been familiar with the smart-assed “merc with a mouth,” but in the context of modern superhero movies, both the character and the self-referential style of the 2016 film were a subversive delight. When the original Deadpool arrived in theaters, it was a breath of fresh air.
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