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Deadpool
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
Final Verdict: [Meh...]
Deadpool
Superhero Action Comedy / English / 2016
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
Pizza, Pork, Eggs, Tuna Casserole, Marriage, hell even Sex, it did not keep it clean.
This movie was pretty much just what I expected it to be, but a teensy bit funnier. A got a couple good laughs out of it, I really liked the extreme self-awareness like the X-Men references and the pointing out of tropes like the Superhero Landing (he now owns the tvtropes quote) and whatnot, I really liked those. A few self-aimed jabs at Ryan Reynolds who I've liked since Just Friends, stomached in Buried, and avoided in The Green Lantern (which is also referenced). A bunch of comments about general geekery really do hammer home that Deadpool really is a superhero fan's sort of superhero and here they've perhaps broadened him a bit to catch the more casual comic book movie fans that will recognize jokes about distinguishing "origin stories" and "ensemble casts".
I've really little familiarity with the Deadpool character, but I know that irreverence is a big part of his character. Unfortunately, you can take irreverence too far and what could have been an amusing subversion of superhero tropes featuring a self-depricating character without the classical sense of justice could have worked brilliantly and I do say that there are regular moments of cleverness in the movie, particularly in regards to the dialog... but then you just got potty humor.
Farting followed by "hashtag #driveby" is as millennial and juvenile as it gets and hearing Deadpool reference Twitter and Facebook and go on about drugs, ****, sex, and even **** WITH sex is more than enough to dial the funny meter way down for me.
The tonal whiplash that comes from ripping back and forth between the goofy and over-the-top present to the awkward and too-serious origin story doesn't do it much favors either. It just begins with Deadpool in a cab picking gum out of the seats, it seriously couldn't just stay there, we needed to stick to convention and give him a tragic backstory? There isn't even any lampshade hung on this, we just get this self-aware parody that can't even remain a parody.
Was I supposed to connect to his relationship with this girl? Am I supposed to treat this like Mask or something? What happened to Death? Why is he dating Copycat?
Whatever, just as I figured they bent too low for the jokes and even put a bullet in Deadpool's rectum while they were at it.
I figure this movie is aimed at the sorts of people who are either diehard Deadpool fans or just haven't heard these sorts of jokes before.
This movie was pretty much just what I expected it to be, but a teensy bit funnier. A got a couple good laughs out of it, I really liked the extreme self-awareness like the X-Men references and the pointing out of tropes like the Superhero Landing (he now owns the tvtropes quote) and whatnot, I really liked those. A few self-aimed jabs at Ryan Reynolds who I've liked since Just Friends, stomached in Buried, and avoided in The Green Lantern (which is also referenced). A bunch of comments about general geekery really do hammer home that Deadpool really is a superhero fan's sort of superhero and here they've perhaps broadened him a bit to catch the more casual comic book movie fans that will recognize jokes about distinguishing "origin stories" and "ensemble casts".
I've really little familiarity with the Deadpool character, but I know that irreverence is a big part of his character. Unfortunately, you can take irreverence too far and what could have been an amusing subversion of superhero tropes featuring a self-depricating character without the classical sense of justice could have worked brilliantly and I do say that there are regular moments of cleverness in the movie, particularly in regards to the dialog... but then you just got potty humor.
The tonal whiplash that comes from ripping back and forth between the goofy and over-the-top present to the awkward and too-serious origin story doesn't do it much favors either. It just begins with Deadpool in a cab picking gum out of the seats, it seriously couldn't just stay there, we needed to stick to convention and give him a tragic backstory? There isn't even any lampshade hung on this, we just get this self-aware parody that can't even remain a parody.
Was I supposed to connect to his relationship with this girl? Am I supposed to treat this like Mask or something? What happened to Death? Why is he dating Copycat?
Whatever, just as I figured they bent too low for the jokes and even put a bullet in Deadpool's rectum while they were at it.
I figure this movie is aimed at the sorts of people who are either diehard Deadpool fans or just haven't heard these sorts of jokes before.