Fellmans Movie Reviews

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What’s it about? The movie starts with Deadpool riding in a taxi, quietly looking around the backseat like a bored child. He eventually crawls through the window to the front seat and begins talking to the driver of the taxi to begin the plot of the movie. Deadpool shows the taxi driver his scarred face and begins to tell him the tale of what happened and what led up to the current events. Wade Wilson, a dishonorably discharged special forces soldier, works as a mercenary at a local bar where he meets a prostitute named Vanessa. They fall in love over the course of a year and get engaged until Wade is suddenly diagnosed with terminal cancer. Wade decides to leave instead of stay and make Vanessa watch him die. In Weasel’s bar, a stranger approaches Wade and offers him an experimental treatment to cure his cancer and gives him a card with only his number on it. After running out of options, Wade decides to give the stranger a call. He’s taken to a laboratory and injected with a serum that unlocks any latent mutant abilities and then he’s subjected to physical pain for several days by a man named “Ajax” before his mutant abilities unlock, giving him regenerative powers, curing his cancer, but causing horrible scarring all over his body. After talking with Weasel, Wade settles on the name “Deadpool” and begins to hunt down the people who work for Ajax, or Francis, as his real name is now known as. Deadpool hunts them down one by one, making his way ever closer to Francis with each underling that he kills. Deadpool eventually makes his way to the stranger that recruited him in Weasel’s bar and finds out where Francis is, plotting an ambush, which is where the movie began in the first place. After the X-Men Colossus and Teenage Negasonic Warhead show up and interrupt Deadpool’s ambush, Francis ends up escaping and Deadpool has to cut his own hand off to escape from Colossus who is trying to take him back to the X-Mansion. Later, Francis and his underling, Angel Dust, another mutant, go to Weasel’s bar and threaten Weasel to find out about Vanessa. They then go to the strip club where she works and kidnap her to make Deadpool show up. Deadpool then goes back and gets Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead to go with him to help fight Francis and Angel Dust. After a brutal battle, Deadpool refuses to spare Francis and kills him in front of Colossus and makes up with Vanessa. Then, in a post-credits scene, Wade imitates a scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off telling about how Cable is going to be in the next Deadpool movie.  

What’s good? This is some of the best dialogue in any Marvel movie I’ve ever heard. And I’m not talking about the foul language. I’m talking about the wit and the comedy. It’s funny. It’s well written. It’s got good timing. Everything is running on all cylinders with this movie. It all just works. 

What’s bad? Try and find something. Watch this movie from front to back and try and find something that’s bad. Maybe somebody’s shoelace is untied in the bar fight scene. I don’t know.  

The acting? Everybody is doing great. This is one of Ryan Reynolds’ best roles. He was made for Deadpool like Robert Downey jr. was made for Tony Stark.  

The effects? The effects in this movie are excellent. From the guns and the fire to Colossus and Deadpool’s tiny hand. It’s just really great effects all over in this film.  

The credits are fantastic. The opening credits are funny because they’re not giving any names, they’re just describing the people in the movie. And not in a good way, either. It’s all in a really derogatory, insulting way.  

They show Ryan Reynolds in a couple different ways. It shows a couple of Ryan Reynolds’ worst projects, like Green Lantern, and the first time he played Deadpool.  

Didn’t Dopinder suspect something when Deadpool got in? Wasn’t Dopinder expecting something weird to happen when the guy in the red suit got into his cab in the first place? Like, that thought must’ve crossed his mind as soon as he saw Deadpool when he first pulled up to pick him up.  

Deadpool doesn’t have to worry about damage. Deadpool certainly has an advantage when he’s fighting in that he doesn’t have to worry about getting shot or anything like that, because his healing ability makes him all but invulnerable to most things. 

Who’s kitty litter did Deadpool just shit in? Seriously, what was that box of kitty litter doing in that guy’s bathroom if that guy didn’t own a cat? That seems even more confusing than why did Wade shit in it in the first place.  

The sex montage goes through all the holidays. The sex montage with Wade and Vanessa goes through all the holidays, and for Lent, where you have to give up something, they’re just sitting there, reading… 

You know how you say cancer in Spanish? El cancer. It makes sense when you think about it.  

The recruiter in the bar. The recruiter in the bar is one of the Thermians from the movie Galaxy Quest.  

Is Wade just pinned to the ground? Francis bends that pole and Wade is literally pinned to the ground while the entire building burns down around him until he wakes up in a pile of ashes.  

He tells Al to leave so he can jerk off. He literally just tells Al to leave so he can jerk off with his tiny hand.  

Deadpool actually buries coke and the cure for blindness. Deadpool makes the joke that he buried 116 kg of cocaine somewhere in the house next to the cure for blindness. The best part is that in the next movie, you see Wade’s secret box that Al doesn’t know about under the floor boards with two giant packages of cocaine and a large box next to them labeled “the cure for blindness”.  

Why did that fall not kill Vanessa? There is no reason that the fall off the top of the ship or whatever they were on shouldn’t have killed Vanessa. That tube wasn’t guarded or packed in any way. It was just a regular table.  

There’s a post-credits teaser talking about Cable. There’s a scene at the end of the credits imitating the end of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off where Deadpool talks about Cable in the second movie.  

So, yeah. Go and see Deadpool. It’s one of the best superhero movies this side of the MCU. Or the DCU. Or the ECU. I don’t even know what that last one is… And as always, keep on watching, with a smile on your face…