So yes, I know, I'm super late to the party, but lately I've finally been able to catch
up on the movies that everyone saw at least a week ago, so hey, Deadpool 2 review now.
Better late than never, right?
And yeah Solo review will come at some point, not sure when.
Anyway, let's stay on target, Deadpool 2.
Did it live up to the first?
Let's talk about it.
*clip* Yes.
Yes it did live up to the first.
Most of you have seen this by now, so I think I'm just gonna go full spoilers on this
review from the get go.
I know I normally don't do that but this review is late and it's easier for a movie
like this.
So if you don't want anything spoiled, short version, I loved it.
It's hilarious, action's incredible, it does everything the first one did well and
takes it even further in a way a sequel should.
Now that that's out of the way, spoilers.
Full ahead.
You have been warned.
So as some of you know, I was a tad skeptical about this.
Not only are sequels, especially comedy sequels often quite underwhelming, but I'd felt
kind of a Deadpool fatigue from that past two years and I was a little nervous this
was just going to be predictable and annoying.
And I am so happy to say I was wrong.
This delivered on most everything I wanted from it.
Ryan Reynolds I think will go down with Hugh Jackman and Robert Downey Jr and a few others
who were just perfect for a comic book character role.
I can't imagine Deadpool without him, he is so tied to this character now, through
the performance and also a lot of the jokes at his personal expense.
But yeah, you can tell he has a passion for this character and he's fantastic as him.
Everyone from the first film is good again, not much to say there.
Dopinder was a standout among those though.
As far as the new additions, I really liked Josh Brolin as Cable.
He must be having a pretty great month.
He is kind of doing a similar deep gravelly voice to the one he did for Thanos, so occasionally
that kinda took me out of it.
And I also wasn't really clear on what his powers were.
But overall performance wise, yeah he's great.
Zazie Beetz as Domino was also great, although I gotta say I didn't love all of her interactions
with Deadpool.
Like when Deadpool is with Cable Cable is very clearly the straight man for Deadpool
to play off of, and even when he's with someone like Weasel they're kinda joking
back and forth.
But with Domino sometimes it just felt like the two were trying to outfunny each other
like in a contest, which I guess was the point, but I didn't find it as funny as a lot of
the other stuff.
Still though, really good new addition that I'd definitely like to see more of in future
films.
Julian Dennison continues to be a great child actor, although I don't really know if he
counts as a child actor anymore.
At what age does someone stop being a child actor?
Anyway, he holds his own with the rest of these A-listers which is impressive.
Also there's a surprise Eddie Marsan, who just seems to pop up in every single movie
I watch.
Anyway, good for him!
The biggest part of Deadpool arguably is the comedy, ad this 100% delivered.
Again, my biggest concern going into this was that the humor that had been so fresh
two years ago was now just gonna be played out or predictable, especially cuz we've
seen so much Deadpool stuff since then, but no, it still felt fresh.
I thought the meta humor was gonna be obvious and tired, like look we mentioned a movie
trope or look he glanced at the camera and made a reference, but it was consistently
funny.
Even some of the jokes that could be classified as more obvious or just reference-y I liked.
I also thought that the gross out crass humor might not be that funny if they just keep
playing it up just for shock value, but again, it made me laugh.
It has a good mix of comedy.
There are some super gross just shock value jokes, there are some well written more clever
jokes, and it all works very well together.
I believe this had the same writers from the first film and they know how to walk the line
between funny and annoying, cuz this characters and these jokes could easily get very very
annoying and they never did.
Maybe 1 or 2 jokes fell a little flat, but in a movie that's like 95% jokes, that's
pretty impressive.
Something else is that the comedy lends itself to the ridiculousness of the story.
THe thing is, in some of these kinds of movies where something really stupid or really convenient
happens and then a character in the movie acknowledges that it's really convenient or
stupid, sometimes you think, well it doesn't matter that you know it, it's still really
stupid.
And sometimes it just comes across as lazy.
But in this, with the world that they've built in these movies it absolutely works.
I mean one of the main characters superpower is basically just the power of plot convenience,
and it's played for laughs though the whole movie.
There's not much else to say on that front, like I don't wanna go through my favorite
jokes in the movie cuz explaining jokes always ruins them.
I will say the X-Force all just dying after the badass plane jump might've been the
hardest I laughed in the movie, that was amazing.
In true Deadpool style this is also jam-packed with easter eggs, and I'm sure I didn't
catch all of them, but the ones I did catch were pretty fun.
All the X-Men showing up in the mansion in another room was one of the best, the Brad
Pitt cameo, the Logan death references, the I'm Batman moment, just all of it was fantastic.
The Passion of the Christ reference was also great, even though I seemed to be the only
one in the cinema who either got it or thought it was funny.
Like I mentioned there are some more obvious references that are just kind of there to
be a reference, like Deadpool just calls Cable Thanos at one point, and like that's it.
That's the joke, the actor played both characters.
But it moves along so quickly that it doesn't take you out of it and there are enough better
references to make up for it.
A big problem with sequels is that it's just a series of callbacks to the first film, and
this avoided that trap.
There are some, but they're minimal and spread out and mostly funny.
I also heard a lot about how this has the best post credits scenes ever, and yeah, they
were pretty hilarious.
I guess Vanessa's back now, so most of the movie doesn't really matter….maybe?
I don't know we'll see in the next movie.
And then Deadpool goes back and not only kills the X-Men Origins Deadpool but also 2011 Ryan
Reynolds about to sign on to Green Lantern.
Both made me laugh pretty hard, and it also amuses me to think about if there are any
die-hard fans out there who really like Green Lantern or X-Men Origins and how it must feel
to watch Deadpool constantly just rip them to shreds.
I gotta also hand it to this movie, there is a lot going on here and it could've very
easily become a huge mess, but it's balanced very well and the plot threads connect in
clever ways.
You've got Deadpool's story, you've got Cable, you've got the kid and Juggernaut,
you've got X-Force and new characters, but it all melds together naturally to make a
very satisfying experience.
Also the trailers gave away very little in terms of this plot, so props for that.
The movie's just well paced, you've got jokes and crazy action, then a somewhat serious
scene, then a long stretch of jokes and crazy action, then a somewhat more serious scene.
Speaking of which, the serious scenes actually work, even more so than the first film in
my opinion.
That was the thing I liked the least about the first movie is that the more serious scenes
aren't as well executed as the crazy fun action and comedy.
But here, while yeah I'm gonna remember the crazy fun action and comey more, the serious
scenes do work.
I wasn't crying, but for a movie this silly, they were surprisingly effective.
That being said there were a few times where the music swells and you're not really sure
if Deadpool's gonna crack and break the fourth wall, which mad esmoe of those scenes
a little harder to get into, but for the most part, yeah it worked.
Vanessa also dies in like the first 10 minutes or something, an example of one of those good
serious moments.
And this didn't irritate me in the same way that say, certain characters deaths in Kingsman
2 that happened very early on did.
Because here, a) they made fun of how crazy it was in the opening credits scene and b)
it actually had more of a proper impact on the rest of the story and came back constantly
throughout the film, while in something like Kingsman 2 it felt more just like, shock value,
we're washing everything from the first movie away just cuz we can!
And it was barely mentioned again in the rest of the movie.
And yeah, the continuous plot thread of Deadpool almost dying and visiting Vanessa in….heaven?
I guess?
Was pretty effective.
Another big aspect of Deadpool is the action, and this was amazing.
I was worried because Tim Miller wasn't coming back and his action scenes in the first
film were pretty incredible, but here they got one of the John Wick directors, and if
you want someone who can do action, yeah, the John Wick guys are probably the way to
go.
The action was fun, exciting, well shot, you can always tell what's happening, and boy
is it brutal.
This once again earns that R-Rating.
The music is not as memorable as the first film's though, gotta say, and that's probably
cuz Junkie XL didn't come back.
This movie also definitely has more special effects, and you can tell this had more money
behind it.
It feels like a much bigger and grander production than the first film, and just to be clear
I love most of that first film.
But really it's two main action set pieces take place in two locations, this just feels
bigger.
It's also stepped up in terms of craziness from the first film, but it feels like a good
natural progression for this character.
The first movie got pretty crazy especially because at the time it was breaking so much
new ground, but now this took it a sizable step further in terms of production value
and set pieces and just the weirdness and insanity of this character and his world,
and it was fantastically entertaining.
It captures the spirit of the first film but also manages to one up it and not just copy,
it's exactly what sequels should do.
The only other complaint I can think of is there was some pretty bad CGI at points.
LIke some stuff looks amazing and you can see where that budget went, but then there's
some CGI that is very very noticeably CGI.
The first film had a little bit of that problem too.
And in a movie that's so self aware I feel like they could've acknowledged when something
looked really bad.
Like Deadpool mentions there's a big CGI fight coming up but that's about it.
Also in terms of the Juggernaut, I feel like that would've been a super awesome reveal….if
I hadn't had it spoiled for me dozens upon dozens of times going in.
So I can't really speak to that, but in terms of him actually being in the movie,
besides some less than perfect CG at points, I loved it.
Another wasted X-Men character done better in a Deadpool film, it was very cool to see.
So overall, Deadpool 2 is a super fun time at the cinema.
It's wildly entertaining and manages to not fall into the comedy and/or just popular
movie sequel trap of just being a best of highlight reel of the first film without adding
much new.
It steps things up, it's hilarious, and the parts that are more serious for the most part
work.
I was entertained from beginning to end and I might even like this more than the first.
I'll give Deadpool 2 a 9.4/10.
So those were my slightly late thoughts on Deadpool 2.
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