Fast, funny, and gleefully profane, the fourth-wall-busting Deadpool subverts superhero film formula with wildly entertaining -- and decidedly non-family-friendly -- results.
This is a fun, hyper-violent, gleefully perverse frolic into the super-powered absurd.
Read full articleAs far as origin stories go, this one's a blast, in no small measure due to Reynolds, who clearly relishes the part, and director Tim Miller, who keeps you entertained and amused throughout.
Read full articleWatching the film is like sitting at dinner with a teen-ager who believes that, if he swears long and loudly enough, he will shock the grownups into accepting him as one of their own.
Read full articleFlamboyantly vulgar and determinedly self-referential, Deadpool has the shape of a superhero movie but the soul of a Danny McBride flick.
Read full articleIt's easy to make a superhero film nowadays. However, a film is nothing without great writers that understand the character and an actor that is passionate about it. Ryan Reynold IS Deadpool.
Read full articleGoes to great lengths to distance itself from the pack of recent Marvel entities, which have become more or less interchangeable.
Read full articleThe film plays well over multiple viewings and holds comedy to a higher standard than mere action and wise cracks.
Read full articleA terrific directing debut from Tim Miller that pretty much awards him a throne made of golden jockstraps on the wings of Stan Lee.
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