Greetings & salutations! Big Josh back from the drainpipe once again with another film critique. This go-around I focus my critical mind on the Merc with a Mouth DEADPOOL! Like Kevin Smith and his homies, I am a Comic Book Man. The first thing I can remember reading is a comic. The Heroes: Superman, Batman, and Spiderman. The Villains: Lex Luthor, Joker, and Green Goblin. The Anti-Heroes: John Constantine, Spawn, Rorschach, Lobo, Punisher, Wolverine, and–OH YEAH! Chimi-effing-changas!–Deadpool. I’ve always had a soft spot for the anti-hero. Anyway, without any further ado I give you my review of Deadpool!
Alright Cine-maniacs break out your red spandex and fry up some chimichangas because our favorite Fourth Wall breaking Merc with a Mouth is finally blowing up the big screen! Thanks to the consolidated efforts of director Tim Miller (Rockfish), the writing team of Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (Zombieland), and People Magazine’s 2010 Sexiest Man Alive Ryan Reynolds (The Voices), the Shogun of Sarcasm is in full effect in his very own feature film. Friends & neighbors I give you Deadpool—starring Ryan Reynolds (Women in Gold), Morena Baccarin (Spy), T.J. Miller (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Ed Skrein (The Transporter Refueled), Stefan Kapicic (Big Miracle), and Brianna Hildebrand (Prism).
Deadpool follows the adventures of soldier of fortune Wade Wilson (Reynolds) as he traverses the wide world doing daring deeds and saving damsels from creepy pizza delivery guys. Wade’s life gets turned on its ear, which is a change for the better, when he meets and falls in love with Vanessa Carlysle (Baccarin), a courtesan with aspirations of a better life. Vanessa and Wade’s whirlwind romance gets a chop to the throat when Wade is diagnosed with the cancer trifecta—brain, lung, and prostate. Sheesh! When a shifty little fellow from a secretive clandestine agency approaches Wade with a fix for all that ails him, Wade takes the offer. Unfortunately for Wade the program is not everything that it was promised it would be.
Tortured relentlessly by Ajax (Skrein) and his minions in order to provoke a mutagenic change in Wade’s physiology, Wade is optimistic for a successful outcome. Wade finally mutates, but it comes at the cost of his good looks, as the process turns his flesh into something resembling that of Freddy Kruger. After a botched escape attempt Wade is left for dead. Intent on revenge Wade goes home to regroup. His first stop is a visit to his old watering hole and its proprietor Weasel (Miller), where he takes the moniker Deadpool as his own. Deadpool’s quest for vengeance causes so much death and destruction it draws the attention of the X-Men. Soon, out of necessity, an epic team-up between Deadpool, X-Man Colossus, and his mentee Negasonic Teenage Warhead ensues. Armed with new abilities, enough weapons to arm a third world country, his twisted sense of humor and allied with members of the famed X-Men, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life. However, the outcome isn’t quiet what Wade had hoped it would be.
First off Deadpool is not your Pappy’s superhero movie, it’s a foulmouthed shot of adrenaline. No punches are pulled. The Fourth Wall is not only broken but shattered beyond all recognition. Action packed and chalk full of hilarious one-liners, Deadpool is everything Ryan Reynolds promised and that I hoped it would be. Having the Master of Glib team-up with X-Men characters is pure genius in my opinion. As a fan I’m ecstatic. As a critic I’m over joyed. I can’t sing the praises of Deadpool enough, so I’m just going to stop here. So stop reading and go have some fun at the movies.
There you have it…Bizaar!
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Joshua “Big Josh” Simpkins
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