Plot: Wade Wilson is a loud-mouthed mercenary who lives with his girlfriend Vanessa in New York. When he finds out that he has terminal cancer, he leaves her to spare her from watching him die. He comes across a secret program that offers an experimental cure for his cancer, led by Ajax. Ajax gives him a serum that develops a healing factor that cures his cancer but leaves him severely disfigured with burn-like scars over his entire body. Wilson escapes from the program and goes on a killing rampage looking for revenge against Ajax as Deadpool.
This review is almost two whole months late, so you already know how this was received. This was everything Deadpool should've been in Wolverine Origins and yet for heaven knows what reason wasn't. Deadpool is the infamous "merc with a mouth" who breaks the fourth wall, pulls all these various funny jokes, is gory violent with his guns and swords, and is altogether a ton of fun to watch. The opening credits for this film set the mood brilliantly making it clear that Fox has heard our venomous outcry from what happened in Wolverine Origins and wanted to make it up to us in full. Even some of the fourth wall jokes included making fun of Deadpool's "appearance" in Origins as well as Ryan Reynold's performance in Green Lantern. This movie is also very R rated with its humor and violence in that I knew that they had to be there in order to properly represent Deadpool, but I didn't expect them to go the distance with its gore, nudity and sexual content...mostly the latter two. To say that this is a film I don't recommend showing to your kids until they're pretty much adults would be an understatement.
The side characters were fun to watch. Stefan Kapičić delivered the best representation of Colossus...not that it was hard to do since he's hardly appeared in other X-Men/X-Men related films, but I digress. He was a perfect polar opposite to Deadpool as this good, mild-mannered hero as opposed to Deadpool...well, being Deadpool. I would be lying if I said I've ever heard of the X-Men trainee who was with Colossus, Negasonic Teenage Warhead (yes that apparently is her name), but she was funny too. And with Reynolds himself as Deadpool, he gave us the right amount of being funny but serious when he needed to be. The movie goes back and forth between his origin story and his hunt for Ajax and it balances out smoothy. They knew that it was Deadpool that we wanted so rather then have us wait half of the running time going over the origin story like so many other films do, they searched for the right pace of giving us his origin but still cutting back to his mission to kill Ajax.
The music is also a lot of fun. I saw this movie with my brother Johnathan, and we could not get the song Shoop by Salt-n-peppa out of our heads during the entire long walk home from the theater. It's so unbearably catchy that we couldn't stop ourselves from singing "Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop" at least several times. The Deadpool rap by Teamheadkick fits Deadpool's personality perfectly.
If there was one problem I had with the film, it would be the make up for Deadpool's disfigured face. I'm not going to pretend that I've read every comic of Deadpool in the world, but I've read enough that both myself and Johnathan felt they held back majorly in making him look like he has a disfigured face that he's ashamed of. One person made the argument that they probably did this because it would have been too much for the make up department to go as big as I hoped they would. There's also a couple of friends of mine who have commented that this is how he looks in the comics sometimes. I understand both arguments, but at the same time I can't quite help but look at his disfigured face and feel that they really did this just so that he still had his Ryan Reynolds face for women to go gaga over. But this is a nitpick.
And that's my review for Deadpool. It's gory, it's funny, it's profane, it's everything that we've been wanting from Deadpool on the big screen for so long. If you haven't seen it yet but want to, go see it now...as long as you're a mature age. Seriously, don't say I didn't warn you.
Rating: 85%
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