Deadpool is a hard-R take on the Marvel superhero movie, writes Kurt Loder. The picture is dizzyingly scabrous, borderline offensive (all right!), and wonderfully refreshing. In telling the story of Wade Wilson, an ex-Special Forces mercenary transformed by mutant surgery into the mentally unstable Deadpool, the movie exults in blood and brutality and sexy-time interludes of a sort that the Avengers, let’s say, would surely find distasteful. (Although Marvel, which produced the film, is of course in on it all.)
The picture is a long-time-coming bust-out for Ryan Reynolds, who also played Deadpool as a subsidiary character in the 2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But forget that. Reynolds, who pushed for more than a decade to get the picture made, is fearlessly committed to the red-suited nutcase of the comics, and he fuels the movie with a delirious spew of weisenheimer one-liners. (He knows you’re wondering, so he punches through the fourth wall to crack, “Whose balls did I have to fondle to get my own movie?”)
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