After a massive loss, and a blow to his being, Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), is forced to rethink his existence. Deadpool 2 presents the titular Deadpool in a different light, as he tries to rediscover himself and bring back something he loves. Who is Deadpool? What is his purpose? With old friends, Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), and new faces, Cable (Josh Brolin), Firefist (Julian Dennison) and Domino (Zazie Beetz), in the mix, Deadpool will have to answer these questions and more.
Once again, just like in its predecessor, Deadpool 2 begins smack dab in the middle of the story, forcing viewers to scratch their heads and ask what the fuck is going on. Of course, Deadpool himself quickly fills in viewers on what’s been happening and leads them right into an action-packed, raunchy superhero film.
Deadpool completely redefined what a superhero film could be, and Deadpool 2 had the unique task of playing sequel to the former. Viewers wanted to see more of what made Reynolds’ passion product so successful, but they also needed to see something new, and that’s exactly what they got in this film. Deadpool 2 continues on the same track in terms of comedy, and viewers are subjected, once more, to the derogatory, racist, sexist, inappropriate jokes that they love. The action sequences are still phenomenal; they are blood-soaked, graphic, disgusting, and everything that fans of Deadpool could have hoped for. This is all the same, and Deadpool 2 finds an immense amount of success as a result of these aspects, but there’s something different about this film, and that’s the intense emotional attachment that this film creates with its viewers.
Sure, there was emotion present in Deadpool 2’s predecessor, but what Writers Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Reynolds create here far surpasses anything that Deadpool presented to viewers. At the film’s start viewers understand all that they are in for, and it’s deep, dark, and fully driven by emotion. Family is the driving force of the emotional content present in Deadpool 2, and through death and destruction the emotional prowess of the film makes its way to the forefront. The emotional aspect becomes so powerful, so early on, that it seems impossible that viewers don’t get choked up, and paired with what should have won the Oscar for Music (Original Song), “Ashes” by Celine Dion–this part of the production plays out perfectly.
Every once in a while you come across a song that works perfectly in the film in which it exists, but when played on its own fails to live up to the hype that you’ve given it. “Ashes,” however, lives up to that hype, and it’s a song that hits every emotional note on the head and further extends the emotional relevance present in Deadpool 2. As one of the best songs not just from a film in 2018, but from all of 2018, it’s still a travesty that it was snubbed by the Academy.
Action, comedy, sex, drugs, and emotion are wrapped not so neatly in this shitstorm of a film called Deadpool 2. Four or five moments is all that it sometimes takes for a film to find success, but when a film can entertain through each and every second, at each and every turn throughout its entirety, then it’s truly great. Deadpool 2 is everything that fans had hoped for and more, and what the cast and crew are able to create will likely never again be replicated.
Directed by David Leitch.
Written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Ryan Reynolds, etc.
Starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Brianna Hildebrand, Jack Kesy, Eddie Marsan, Shioli Kutsana, Stefan Kapicic, etc.
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