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 articleAs for Reynolds, this is the role he was made for, and he tears into it as if to make up for the ridiculously terrible earlier version of Deadpool he played.
Read full articleThat Deadpool was ever made is something of a small miracle. That it's satisfying from a fan perspective is another miracle.
Read full articleDeadpool is a stylishly salty antidote to bloated recent superhero movies like last year's Avengers: Age Of Ultron.
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