Deadpool 2 * * * *
So after all my complaints about films based on Marvel comics I go see another one. Why? Because, as demonstrated in the first film, Deadpool is different. In fact it seems to agree with me. "This is rubbish, so let's just make a mockery of the whole thing", which it does very well.
As you can't tell the same joke twice, it's not quite as funny as the first one, but it comes close. It's a very fine follow up.
This time the plot is based around an orphanage for gifted kids where the staff torture them - especially one chubby boy played by New Zealander Julian Dennison from Hunt for the Wilderpeople (big step forward for little lad).
Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) has suffered a very personal loss and comes up with a spectacular suicide pact (of course): but the ghost of his loved one gives him instructions to go back and do some good and help the orphan kid who is being hunted down by a superhero (I forget their names) who has come back from the future to kill the orphan kid because the kid is going to grow up to be an assassin.
Deadpool recruits a group of wanna be superheros who are so hopeless they nearly all die before even meeting the enemy. This film is really quite awful the way it makes death so funny, but you can't help but laugh.
Quite a few of the characters from the first Deadpool come back including that big steel guy and the tiny woman who works with him who now has an exquisitely beautiful Japanese girlfriend,
also the Indian taxi driver who has no skills but wants to be a superhero.
Anyway, switch off your brain, enjoy the spectacular visuals. (At one stage a character forewarns us "CGI fight coming up". ) Laugh at the wise cracking dialogue and be glad that someone has got this stuff based on comic books right.
As you can't tell the same joke twice, it's not quite as funny as the first one, but it comes close. It's a very fine follow up.
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Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) has suffered a very personal loss and comes up with a spectacular suicide pact (of course): but the ghost of his loved one gives him instructions to go back and do some good and help the orphan kid who is being hunted down by a superhero (I forget their names) who has come back from the future to kill the orphan kid because the kid is going to grow up to be an assassin.
Deadpool recruits a group of wanna be superheros who are so hopeless they nearly all die before even meeting the enemy. This film is really quite awful the way it makes death so funny, but you can't help but laugh.
Quite a few of the characters from the first Deadpool come back including that big steel guy and the tiny woman who works with him who now has an exquisitely beautiful Japanese girlfriend,
also the Indian taxi driver who has no skills but wants to be a superhero.
Anyway, switch off your brain, enjoy the spectacular visuals. (At one stage a character forewarns us "CGI fight coming up". ) Laugh at the wise cracking dialogue and be glad that someone has got this stuff based on comic books right.
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