Deadpool – Movie Review

In the forthcoming months, we have the X-Men battling Apocalypse, the one mutant who can control ALL OF THEM (where’s the challenge?). We have Batman and Superman going at it over a simple disagreement. Iron Man’s team versus Cap’s team… going at it over a simple disagreement. Will Smith and company fight it out to “Bohemian Rhapsody.” And Benedict Cumberbatch as a Doctor who’s Strange.

Now, while most of these films look grand in scale, emotional to the core in the dramatic department, and visually awesome…if you think about it, they’re all kind of doing the same thing. All with band together after being at each other’s throats to fight a threat bigger than any of them combined. We need a breather, some fresh air…some chimichangas!

The Tim Miller directed, Ryan Reynolds’s Deadpool opened nationwide during the Valentine’s Day holiday, and it couldn’t have been more impeccable. It really is the perfect date night movie. You know the story: a mercenary-for-hire falls in love with an escort who eventually becomes his fiancée but it’s derailed of a promised storybook ending when the cancer is eating up 3/4 of his body, so he decides the only option he has for his story tale ending is to undergo a radical experimental procedure that can cure him of his disease.

The lab is destroyed, but not after Wade Wilson AKA Deadpool is left to die. BUT NOT AFTER the mutation has been triggered, rendering him immortal. He goes on a rampage to find the man who left him to die in order to cure his disfigurement caused by the torture he endured. His fiancée is kidnapped and he recruits Colossus and Negasonic to the final epic battle. See? Perfect love story.

Now with the previews alone you can tell this isn’t your normal superhero movie. For those who know Deadpool, you can and will find nudity, strong sexual content, profanity, and strong violence. Let’s see the X-Men do that! Ryan Reynolds was born to play this role as he in his own way is a toned down version of Deadpool. After this movie though, we will now come to know him AS Deadpool. 

Some may know that this is his 2nd time portraying everyone’s favorite merc with a mouth as he had a cameo in Wolverine Origins.

He has since then gone to say that he felt blackmailed into playing that role; either he played it or someone else would. That role, as well as the movie, was a disaster. His love for Deadpool is so deep, that he went forth and accepted, but years later with a strong word of mouth of a three-minute test reel on YouTube, gave the execs an immediate green light and even taking a pay cut to play the titular role, his dream finally came true.

And it was worth the wait! This movie, without giving any spoilers away, is exactly what we need in the superhero realm of genre flicks. It is able to not take itself seriously, poke fun at itself, and have loads of fun. You will laugh, you will shed a tear (either from the love story or the continuous laughter), and you will beg for more. There are plenty of Easter eggs, references, and connections that come bundled up with superhero movies, so keep your eyes peeled. Make sure to stay for an absolute great end credit scene as well.

Final word: go see Deadpool. Zoolander 2 can wait, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies shouldn’t have been made, How to be Single… (Come on?) You shan’t be disappointed!