Ebert Did It Better: Gasbag Reviews

Deadpool 2 – 2018

Director David Leitch
Screenplay Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Ryan Reynolds
Starring  Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, Jack Kesy

If you…

• Don’t like Ryan Reynolds
• Don’t like a movie that exists entirely without the fourth wall, or even the walls 1-3
• Don’t like the X-Men not being taken seriously
• Like an approach that totally understands the absurdity of superheroes, mutants, etc.
• Don’t like sequels that are better than the original
• Don’t like the original
• Don’t like things that lack consequence
• Hate seeing someone tell you ahead of time which parts will be bad CGI
• Don’t like the absurdity of Josh Brolin seeing someone mock his step mother relentlessly
• Don’t like seeing Josh Brolin in more than one new movie every three weeks
• Don’t to see someone ripped apart from two appendages
• Don’t want to see that same person blown into even more pieces
• Don’t want to see a super hero suit held together with duct tape
• Don’t want to see naked baby legs and something even smaller holding up a shirt
• Don’t want to play spot the reference
• Don’t want to play spot the cameo
• Don’t think there could be another Marvel movie better than the one topping the box office right now that uses the same dumb elements but more sloppily
• Like the Beatles
• Don’t like the Stones
• Don’t want to wonder what that suit must smell like
• Don’t want to be offended

…then don’t see this movie.

I can’t wait to see it again.

(****1/2 out of *****)