Reynolds deploys likable Clooneyesque goof in this shriekingly self-aware and very violent super-antihero Marvel vehicleThe meta the better. This seems to be the mission statement for this horribly violent,shriekingly self-aware and macabre Marvel super-antihero movie. It’s the funniest Ryan Reynolds film since Van Wilder: Party Liaison, and by the way finally confirms the hall-of-fame status for Richard Curtis’s “I’m just a girl standing in front of a boy…” line from Notting Hill.
Deadpool is dripping in irony, or zinging and stinging with pop-culture gags; it begins by spoofing the generic lineup in the credits,giving nobody’s name, just archetypes – “British villain”, and etc. perhaps this will evolve for Deadpool 2 with everything simply replaced with the phrase “I know,right?” (It’s a bit like the Cracked.com YouTube spoof trailer for an indie film called Movie Title.) Deadpool gets absent with it by barrelling the references past us in an aspartame rush. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com