I love movies. I especially dig comic book movies. The problem I always encounter is that once the origin story happens the movies tend to fall apart. They can’t hold the story together because the characters are all the same and lack any deep appeal. There are two basic character archtypes–Supermen and Batmen. The supers have these powers and want to be moral upstanding people. The bats want to get stuff done. Now as a comic book reader I am well aware of the nuance and the multitude of micro shifts along the scale between those two opposing forces.
Deadpool exists on an entirely different scale.
Wade Wilson, obvious play on Deathstroke’s Slade Wilson, is a merc with a mouth; a sharpshooting, wisecracking, a-hole who has a score to settle. The film digs into his backstory, telling a tale of a Deadpool we wanted while simultaneously erasing the one everyone hated. Both things happened, and without giving away anything I can say that both marvel universes were finally joined. There are obvious element from the Avengers world and as for the X-men world, two of them are in the cast. All of this adds up to a movie that had a lot to deliver and not a lot of minutes to make that a reality.
The film was everything I expected. I cannot find a lot of negative words to share about it. There were so many references to both marvel movie chains that I had to stop counting. To be honest, I had to stop counting because it was distracting me from loving the dialogue. His quips were so perfectly timed and so telling that he could’ve spent the movie rowing across the Bering strait and I would’ve loved that journey.
Deadpool is worth the admission price. In fact, buy popcorn. You’ll want it.