Everything you expect it to be! Deadpool 2 movie is high voltage humour, witty comebacks with excruciating gore. The only problem being, in achieving its Marvel-ous targets, it ends up condescending one of the most badass Marvel characters that was ever created by comics – Cable.
You put anything serious against Deadpool and he lances it with his humor sword. That’s how it is! The reason why the Deadpool 2 movie feels unjust to the character even though Josh Brolin does Cable apt justice with his looks. All that seriousness that he had implanted in our heads with a ravishing performance as Thanos in Infinity Wars, unfortunately, ends up getting belittled here. It is disparaging to a hero we were looking forward to watching.
There’s trouble brewing in its editing department too which speeds up the movie unnecessarily prancing towards an act. Then there is that impoverished CGI of Juggernaut which makes you question why didn’t we go with an actual human being like we did in X2? Or at least upped it a bit so it looked more badass like Thanos or even Hulk for that to matter.
If you are fine with such apparent issues and wish to watch DP make fun of everybody, you will not be let down. He will make sure you have a blast. Humour is simply outrageous!
Plot of Deadpool 2 Movie (Spoilers)
To form its plot we find Deadpool failing to kill a mercenary who ends up shooting his girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). The whole world loses its meaning for him as he is rendered without a purpose. DP wishes to not live in it. But unfortunately, he can’t die! He tries it several times but it’s like a curse that compels him to keep on surviving without her.
After being blown up to pieces, he visits Vanessa in the afterlife for a short time before he is brought back to life. He is rejoined by Colossus as he wakes up in the X-mansion. The only thing he has with him from her is a Skee-Ball token to remember her by.
Listen to the pain. It’s both history teacher and fortune teller. Pain teaches us who we are, Wade. Sometimes it’s so bad we feel like we are dying, but we can’t really live until we die a little, can we?
Considering it as a part of his healing, he joins the X-men only to be summoned on his first mission that he ends up messing up. Meet Firefist a.k.a. Russell Collins (Julian Dennison) who is yet another mutant kid being tortured by science experiments. This time the torturer is a Headmaster (Eddie Marsan) of Mutant Reeducation Center. On realizing that the Headmaster has been abusing lil Rusty boy, Deadpool shoots one of their staff members.
Owing to his actions both Deadpool and Rusty are immediately apprehended and taken to a prison after being put on a collar that suppresses mutant powers.
With this collar on, my superpower is just unbridled cancer. Give me a bow and arrow and I am basically Hawkeye.
Cable
Incoming Cable! A cybernetic soldier from future travels back in time to kill Rusty up young before he ever becomes a killer, for an older version of Rusty had killed Cable’s family in the future. Wade Wilson tries to save Rusty intervening and manages to. Rusty overhears Deadpool’s claim that he doesn’t care for him as Cable takes Vanessa’s token.
You are so dark. Are you sure you are not from the DC universe?
Afterlife revisited, Wade comes across Vanessa who asks him to save Collins. All those conversations are more like Wade talking with his own subconsciousness, doing the right thing, finding himself a purpose and the will to go on.
In a world where teaming up is a primal necessity, Deadpool decides to form his own team.
You know what we need to do? We need to build a fucking team. We need ’em tough, morally flexible, and young enough so they can carry this franchise 10-12 years.
Thus X-Force is created with a team of unusual superheroes. The big joke lies in the fact that nobody makes it except Domino.
Zip it, Thanos!
As DP and Domino try to save the kid from Cable’s wrath, little did they know that Rusty had already teamed up with *drum rolls* the Juggernaut. He literally splits Deadpool in half as Rusty takes him with him to get revenge on the Headmaster.
Yet Another Team
Growing his legs and chilling at his house, Deadpool is visited by Cable who explains his situation to him, that he wishes to kill Rusty before his first murder. DP volunteers for a chance to be able to stop him from going to the dark side before murdering a poor confused child.
Cable: I use a device to slide through time. The longer I travel, the harder it is to control. I got two charges: One to get me here, one to get me home.
Deadpool: Well, that’s just lazy writing!
Back at the orphanage the team goes to war with the Juggernaut, as Rusty closes in on the Headmaster. Before Cable is about to kill Rusty, Deadpool takes the shot instead, wearing the collar that takes all his mutant powers away. He meets Vanessa in the afterlife yet again but the reunion is short-lived as Cable goes back in time to plant Vanessa’s token on the exact spot where the bullet had hit him.
Only best buddies execute pedophiles together.
Thus Wade survives, Rusty has a change of heart but the Headmaster dies as Dopinder (Karan Soni), Wade’s taxi driver friend, rams his taxi into him.
Firefist: How do you know what I want?
Deadpool: Because I have been inside you. That came out wrong. I have been inside your shoes, which is also off-putting.
There is literally no reason and zero bro-chemistry for Cable to choose Deadpool over his family. That’s one big plot hole that you can’t get over. David Leitch has still a lot to learn about drama.
No End Credit Scene
The flick doesn’t have an end credit scene so sitting all the way to the end didn’t prove fruitful. Although there’s a mid-credit sequence wherein Negasonic Teenage Warhead and her girlfriend Yukio help Deadpool repair Cable’s time slider which he then uses to save Vanessa and Peter (Rob Delaney), kill X-Men Origins: Wolverine’s Deadpool and Ryan Reynolds while he was considering becoming the Green Lantern.
Things to watch out for in Deadpool 2 movie, I would say is the character of Domino. She has the superpower of being lucky. How cool is that! Domino proves exactly why she is so awesome as she narrowly escapes life-threatening situations without having to lift a finger. The way situations align themselves as per her pleasing will draw out a smile of you.
Luck isn’t a superpower. And it isn’t cinematic!
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The Final Verdict
Deadpool 2 movie is no doubt great when its sole aim is to entertain you. It scores very high points in that department, yes. But if you try to focus on what all story it wishes to tell you, you realize it becomes quite bland in right about everything. You wished Cable to be badass but he ends up becoming not that great. You wanted Juggernaut to be memorable, you can’t see past that awful CGI. Hell! DP is so unserious that it even changes its entire plot in its credits, almost as if the movie didn’t happen.
Another thing that might be outrageous for you would be its editing. Runs too fast and through the merc’s mouth at all times. So you are never serious enough to concentrate on the plot. It’s like things keep happening, you just have to pay attention to all the non-comic bits to understand what’s really going on.
Can you see it? Do you see that beautiful bright light? There it is.
*dramatic pause*
Oh, that’s the sun. Don’t stare directly into that.
Overlook all of that, Deadpool 2 movie still has plenty of stunts to leave you mesmerized, gore aplenty that will make you cringe and humour that will tickle you till you fall off your chair. A must watch nevertheless!
Deadpool 2
Pros
- Deadpool
- Humour
- Gore Action
- Good Plot
Cons
- Belittling Cable's import
- Juggernaut's CGI
- Storytelling
