Deadpool 2: A Review by Gordon Stamper, Jr.
Unless you've tuned out to pop culture the past three years, you're probably at least aware of the R-rated phenomena of Deadpool. He's a wise-cracking, murderous anti-hero whose antics should never be seen by young children, but many boys have seen anyway as a badge of honor. You know it's something different from the usual Marvel fare when Stan Lee's cameo appearance is a strip club announcer in film one.
In the latest installment, Deadpool aka Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) has hit rock bottom, feeling friendless and desolate after a tragedy the character foreshadows as one of Disney proportions. He finds a cause through the persecution of a orphaned boy (Julian Dennison), who is also a mutant with explosive super powers.
What Deadpool doesn't expect is Cable (Josh Brolin), a time-travelling hit man armed with dozens of future weapons that could crater city blocks and wants to kill the boy. Deadpool then enlists the help of a team with some great and not-so-great superpowers he proclaims as "X-Force." The ensuing conflict is both riotous in gore and humor, with many superhero tropes and pop cultural icons being satirized and skewered along the way, including other Marvel franchises, of course.
Like the first film, many scenes are elaborate excuses for some snappy throwaway lines and punch lines. But it also doesn't have the expository baggage of origin story to hold back the action or jokes. Most of the central troupe returns as well, including Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Leslie Uggams, and Karan Soni as Deadpool's taxi cab wheel man, who helped make the first movie a foul-mouthed and amusing adult action comedy.
Once again, the emphasis is on set piece gross-outs and taboo-stretching humor, and I won't be the spoiler reel that many ads already have been. If you love action comedy and the term "sensitive viewer" hasn't applied to you since your childhood, Deadpool 2 should be a great time at the movies, and please leave the kids at home!
My rating: ***1/2 out of ****.
20th Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment present Deadpool 2. Rated R for everything. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Eddie Marsan, and Stefan Kapicic. Written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Ryan Reynolds. Directed by David Leitch. Still in theatrical wide release as of June 19, 2018.
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