Review: Deadpool 2

Series: Deadpool: #2

language warning (duh?)

Well that certainly started with a bang.

After the surprsing (to some I suppose) success of Deadpool, of course they’re going to make another. It’s … pretty much exactly what you’d expect if you took Deadpool and turned it up to, well, as far as Cable’s gun goes. 😄

We have more X-Men! Well, we have Yukio. And a delightful blink and you’ll miss it group cameo. And Cable! He’s from the X-Men comics at least?

Cable: I use a device to slide through time. The longer I travel, the harder it is to control. I got two charges: one to get me here, one to get me home.

Wade Wilson: [looks at the camera] Well… that’s just lazy writing.

We have the X-Force! A whole team building exercise… which goes about as well as you can expect. Another delightfully brief cameo there. Shocking, that one. The only longer term introduction of Domino was a lot of fun though.

Domino: They’re headed into the tunnel.
Deadpool: I’m that kid’s only hope, so sit tight and wait for my word.
Domino: Whatever. We’re gonna lose ’em. I’m dropping in.
Deadpool: Uh, that’s a negative, sole survivor. Luck is not a superpower! We are so fucked!
Deadpool: No, we are most certainly not fucked.
Deadpool: Seriously, I don’t get it! What, you shoot luck lasers out your eyes? It’s just hard to picture. And certainly not very cinematic. I mean, luck? What coked-out, glass pipe-sucking freakshow comic book artist came up with that little chestnut? Probably a guy who can’t draw feet!

There are some crazy action scenes (out of control transport truck!), although I think the giant falling container ship of the first one was still more impressive.

I enjoyed it.

Side note: Look up who voiced Juggernaut. I … managed to completely miss that.

Deadpool: What do you get when you take 8-feet of chrome, one pinch of courage, a cup of good luck, a dab of racism, a splash of diabetes, and a wheelbarrow of stage 4 cancer? Answer: A family. See? I didn’t lie what kind of film this was. If there’s anything you take away today - other than the need to google “what the fuck is dubstep” - it’s that we all need to belong to someone.