I really, really enjoyed it. At it's core it's a comedy with generous servings of ultra-violence but there were a few things that were disappointing (to me).
1) Wade is Deadpool. And Deadpool kind of could have been more Deadpool...
There's no distinction between the two, he doesn't get incessantly zany post mutation, there's no real telltale signs of his split personalities (bar a line where he says "all of me", and even that's tenuous at best) and his internal monologue is only really dealt with via freeze frames with him still talking. Where were the animated overlays, the bizare cutaway infomercials? It could have been just that little bit braver than it was.
2) Overuse of material in trailers.
There were chains of jokes the trailers outright killed just because of the sheer volume they put out there.
3) Ajax is a lackey.
At the press screening I went to, we didn't get a post credit sequence (so unless something was revealed there) the ending felt a little flat for me. Ajax never came across as a big bad, it felt like there needed to be a grander threat.
To be fair though, all of those are minor points to how much I laughed at his regenerating tiny hand, the dropkick decapitation, the IKEA furniture and **** me sideways the huge supply of drugs "buried next to the cure for blindness".
It was great.
And I wouldn't want to see anyone but Reynolds in the red and black and darker shades of red with bits of gristle spandex, but it's left me hoping a sequel might be just that little bit bolder.
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Also, can anyone find me one of these?
Because I can't seem to for neither love nor money nor Voltron rings.
