Capsule Review (Minimal Spoilers):

Deadpool 2 is the followup film to the highly successful Deadpool movie from 2016. It easily earns its R rating for graphic violence, as well as for some of the humor, and is a worthy successor to the original.

It’s a story of loss and possible redemption that holds together, all held together with  Deadpool’s wise-cracking, never-serious, sensibilities. Highly recommended, and may require repeated viewings to get all the jokes and jabs.

There is a set of mid-credits scenes that put a hilarious cap to many of the things from the movie, and others.

 

Standard Review (with minor plot spoilers):

Thanks to a miscalculation on his part, Deadpool’s (Ryan Reynolds) life is turned upside down. In a twist of fate, he gets recruited by the X-men, as a trainee.  It does not go well, and he is sent to a special prison, where mutants are kept, without their powers, thanks to a special collar they are all forced to wear. Fortunately, a prison break appears when a mutant appears, Cable (Josh Brolin), with a personal vendetta. It’s all a big mess that is unwittingly caused by Deadpool.

When I was younger, I was never really aware of Deadpool, or what he was all about. I saw many Deadpool cosplayers at comic cons, but still didn’t get it until I saw the first film. He’s silly, irreverent, and breaks the fourth wall with such impunity that it makes him more endearing than he should be. After all, superhero films are rather ridiculous, so why not make fun of them, relentlessly? Deadpool has become one of my favourite superheroes to date.

No target is safe from Deadpool. Most of the jabs are directed to things within the Marvel Universe, but many are not. For example, the opening credits are thing of beauty, in that they start after a major event occurs, and they don’t reference anyone by name. Instead, some of them refer to the events that just happened, and you’ll agree with the sentiment. I’ll stop short of being specific, because they’re entertaining on their own. If you recall, the opening credits of the first movie did something similar. Very “out of the box” thinking.

The stunts are fitting, the jokes are crazy, but inspired, and story ends up being a lot better than I expected. What’s not to love, here?

Let me repeat – it’s Highly recommended because it NEVER takes itself seriously. It’s probably the best superhero movie I’ll see all year.

There is no post-credits sequence.