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Deadpool 2 Review

The Merc with a Mouth is back in one of the most anticipated comic book movies ever. After all Deadpool is pretty much a perfect film, no doubt due to being a passion project its creators had to fight for years just to make and then fight to stay on budget to finish.

It did everything exactly right in order to create a comic book movie completely unlike anything else we had seen to date. Hilarious and gratuitously violent, it lampooned everything about comic book movies while celebrating them at the same time.  Add to it the fact that Ryan Reynolds might as well be Deadpool in real life and you end up with a superb transition of the character from the comic books to the big screen. Not to mention the advertising campaign, which is a work of pure genius all its own.  It just made for a uniquely awesome experience that is just as good the 5th time as it is the 1st, which is why it made an obscene amount of money for both its release time and budget.

Of course, making an obscene amount of money guaranteed the sequel teased at the end of the credits, and so here we are.  Sequels are tricky business though, especially when dealing with a surprise hit.  How do you replicate that perfect bit of magic that makes a movie stand out the way Deadpool did?  It's been done before, but the odds are rarely in favor of it.

Unfortunately, even with Cable and X-Force joining the fray, Deadpool 2 finds itself on the wrong end of that statistical breakdown. So let me tell you why I was so very disappointed with it:


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  1. I agree with you that Ryan Reynolds could be Deadpool in real life. He is perfect for this role! Even I think that the first film is funnier than this one but I still liked it.

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