Film Review Week - Day 4

Let’s bring it back one of the latest releases today with the other big hitter floating around the cinemas at the moment (and “floater” seems like it would be an appropriate word to use in a review of a film like this). 

Deadpool 2
Dir. David Leitch
In A Nutshell:- Like the first Deadpool but probably a bit more Deadpool-ier

Superhero films are everywhere. DC’s films take themselves really far too seriously and suffer for it. Marvel’s films strike the balance between action and humour (in general). The X-Men films are an odd hybrid of the two, possibly leaning slightly more on the dour side at times. Deadpool is definitely on the humour side.

If you watched the first one then this will come as no surprise. It’s more of the same - if anything, it’s upped the comedy levels to make it a full on action comedy film (the first film still had the occasional moment of trying to keep it reasonably straight laced). It’s a gag-laden, fun film that breezes through its running time without stopping for much of a breather. There are a few surprises in the film  that for once the marketing has managed to disguise rather than reveal which makes a nice change these days.

To say much more would be to spoil it; not in terms of plot as the plot that is there is relatively paper thin (and anyone going to watch a Deadpool film for its dense plotting has somewhat missed the point). No, it would spoil some of the gags and that’s the whole point of a film like this. There are also some nice nerdy deepcut references for the old school comics fan too (which, of course, I picked up on).

Is it worth watching? If you liked the first one, absolutely; it’ll tick all of the boxes you’re expecting it to. If you didn’t like the first one then this one won't win you over any. It’s a daft superhero film that’s happy to point out the overall daftness of superhero films in general. There’s definitely room for a film like that.