Deadpool 2 is much better than the first film (review)

Good news: the Deadpool sequel easily blows away the original film.

As fans wait with bated breath Deadpool & WolverineC8 rebroadcasts Deadpool 2, the sequel released in 2018, this Sunday at 9:20 p.m. At Première, we were seduced by this second part of the adventures of Wade Wilson. Our review:

In 2016, Dead Pool took the public more or less by surprise: a superhero film without superheroes or heroes, vulgar and aggressive, where Ryan Reynolds as an immortal killer shooting at all costs while dropping tons of insults – without forgetting to make fun of other superhero films in the process. The film was a hit thanks to this surprise effect, but remained very unconvincing with its low-brow humor and extremely predictable storyline. A shame for a film that wanted to be subversive and original.

In any case, the fate of Deadpool was sealed very quickly by its overwhelming success: a sequel was needed. Dead Pool, and quick. To do this, Fox had the good idea to replace the departing director Tim Miller – who resigned due to “artistic divergence” with Reynolds – by David Leitchseasoned stuntman, first-class second unit director and also co-director of John Wick. Without reaching the height of this instant classic with Keanu Reeves, Deadpool 2 is thus a real, perfectly enjoyable action film, but its action does not act in a vacuum, clashing with jokes like in the first film.

Deadpool is not the subversive film we expected (review)

Finally accustomed to its strange superhero, Reynolds' team completely lets loose: Deadpool continues to break the fourth wall and address the audience via the camera, finally fulfilling the parodic and trashy promise of the franchise. The valves fuse at the speed of a machine gun, with some amazing cameos And an absolutely hilarious mid-credits scene. Of course, it misses its target one time out of four, but when it works it's truly gratifying. While the action scenes are very satisfyingly generous and inventive, culminating in the attack on a van of mutant prisoners to the sound of “Thunderstruck” of AC/DC.

The presence of new characters like Cable (Josh Brolin is brilliant as a pseudo-Terminator from the future and serious as an 80s Dolph Lundgren) and especially Domino (the excellent Zazie Beetz as a super-killer with incredible luck). The mix of action and trashy humor works perfectly, so much so that it would be exhausting to list all the bravura bits, all the punchlines in the film. Deadpool 2 is the perfect example of a sequel that prefers one-upmanship to renewal, and is right to do so. All the counters are at 11. All, or almost.

How (spoiler) ended up in a cameo in Deadpool 2?

A significant downside, however: Deadpool 2 always remains a bit short of what one might expect in terms of audacity. The joke about Disney potentially buying Fox didn't survive the edit; and it is aberrant in a film where the running gag consists of the repetition of the phrase “what a lazy scenario” (“lazy writing”) not to make fun of the very engine of the footage: the cliché of “woman in the fridge” which consists of killing the hero's companion to launch the plot, a lazy and sexist screenplay tic, employed two times in the film without Deadpool finding any reason for mockery. And yet, Deadpool knows that in the moneyed and cold kingdom of Hollywood, the lazy writing is the norm and therefore the enemy.

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Before Deadpool 2, watch Logan