"Deadpool 2" (2018)

Ryan Reynolds is the Evil Ryan Gosling.
"Deadpool 2" is fun. But after the gunpowder smell goes away and the ultra-violence subsides, you're left with a very sad sick feeling that movies like these de-sensitizes children to violence. I observed many many children in the audience I saw this with. Though I'm not about to blame Hollywood for perpetuating violence (why aren't there marches about this). It's hard to take celebrity anti-gun movements seriously when this is what a major studio vomits out.

This is a "John Wick" style movie. They address it...verbatim. That it is about revenge. The story starts out with Deadpool already legendary against the baddies. They fear him. Enough to cause him a great tragedy to which now he must live with. Typical comic trope. In his sorrow, and because of doing stupid things, he ends up in mutant prison where he meets a young boy who he must help.
Not going to get into the nuts and bolts of recruiting of X-Force or the cameos of X-Men characters, but the goofball pop culture humor...is what I would think being teabagged feels like. We get it already, you can't take shit seriously. You know who else conceals intense pain with humor? Sociopathic narcissist. It's essentially who Deadpool is, with no remorse. And why would he? In the original Deadpool, I'd mentioned how unlikeable he is. The act is...tiresome. This schtick means you need to know a TON of the references. And for the most part, it speaks to me. But it also attacks your knowledge of it too. So which is it? Deadpool seems to never allow anything beyond the superficial. And sadly...our society embraces this now. Is this enjoyable? Yeah, it's clever in ways. Has great side characters like Domino (Zazie Beetz) whose superpower is...luck. There's a lot of peripheral questions like...why does the rest of society look and act like shells of humans (this may be answered in "Deadpool 3" where Cable attempts to save ourselves from self-destruction).

As superhero movies go...it's the only one with balls enough to ruthlessly go violent. But you almost wonder if it's a good thing. You go into some physical shock realizing how many versions of human vivisections would look like.