Review of Deadpool (2016) by Johnny T — 27 Jun 2016

Deadpool is one of those movies that's all the more successful for how easily it could have gone so very wrong. It's suffused with an arch, self-aware wit...yet it takes its romance and revenge storylines just seriously enough to keep us engaged. Its been years in the making but fans of Marvel's incendiary, foul-mouthed anti-hero superhero Deadpool are finally getting a film, and it's the movie they've always wanted. A better, sharper, raunchier, and unapologetically entertaining movie experience that is up there with the best hard-core comic book movies. The choreography is stylish throughout, with Deadpool switching elegantly between pistols and katanas, severing heads before round-housing them across the screen. A hilarious, ultra-violent and therefore fairly faithful adaptation of the cult comic book character, that you wouldn't see elsewhere in Marvel's overbearing, overly serious superhero universe. This comic book superhero comedy is just plain super fun , a raunchy movie that parodies the whole genre while still honoring it. Ryan Reynolds has found a vehicle worth his talents. Fast, funny, and gleefully profane, the fourth-wall-busting Deadpool subverts superhero film formula with wildly entertaining -- and decidedly non-family-friendly -- results. Deadpool may not be the best superhero film ever made but, boy oh boy, is it the gutsiest.

VERDICT: "High-Quality Stuff" - [Positive Reaction] This is a rating to a movie I view as very entertaining and well made, and definitely worth paying the full price at a theatre to see or own on DVD. It is not perfect, but it is definitely excellent. (Films that are rated 3.5 or 4 stars).