I enjoyed Deadpool 2. I laughed, the action was good, the music was good.
But, like the first one, I didn’t find it as funny as I expected. The cultural buzz around these movies is that they’re a non-stop sidesplitting laugh riot, and that just wasn’t true for me. Yes, a good movie. I don’t regret my ticket purchase at all. But I have no desire to see it again.
Like the Scream movies from a generation ago, the fourth-wall breaking acknowledgement of all the tropes and cliches we’re going through is funny, but it wears thin quickly.
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I also found the major transition in the plot weak. Deadpool’s in a prison for superheroes, Cable comes back in time to kill the kid Deadpool is with, they fight, Deadpool gets out of prison but the Kid doesn’t, and then…
Deadpool is planning an assault on a convoy moving the kid and a few other prisoners out of the superhero prison.
Why are they moving the kid? Because of Cable’s attack? OK, then why just the kid and the most dangerous prisoner in there, and not all the prisoners? We can tell by the size of the transfer vehicle vs. the mob of mutant psychopaths in the actual prison that they weren’t all in that convoy.
I just felt like there was some lazy writing around the transition from prison to prisoner transfer-convoy that could have been done better.
Overall, if you can stomach the language and gore, Deadpool 2 is funny and you should go see it. But it’s no Infinity War or Civil War.