"Deadpool 2" comes up a little short to it's expectations.

Rating: 8/10 (9 March 2019)

Review for Deadpool 2
(8/10)
Deadpool 2 had huge expectations to live up to after it's origin story was a R rated thrill ride, but "Deadpool 2" comes up a little short to it's expectations.
The script, by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and Ryan Reynolds, is loaded with winky, fourth-wall-piercing eruptions of meta, the kind of humor that can make even the slow-witted and literal-minded feel devilishly clever. Works for me, I guess. But this sequel to the R-rated, X-Men-adjacent surprise blockbuster of 2016 works maybe a little too hard in the service of a dubious cause.
"Deadpool 2," cracking wise at the expense of nearly every intellectual property in the DC and Marvel universes - and occasionally drawing metaphorical blood to go along with the abundant onscreen gore - uses its self-aware irreverence to perform the kind of brand extension and franchise building it pretends to lampoon.
Grief and despair drive Wade first to seek revenge and then to try to prevent two other acts of vengeance from taking place. The first 30-40 minuets of the movie weren't that entertaining to me, there were a few jokes that made me laugh, but for me the movie got going once Josh Brolin's Cable showed up and kick some ass. And Zazie Beetz is great as Domino. And there are some fantastic cameos, that definitely draw a laugh and a "wait I know who that is".
For me "Deadpool 2" is a good-enough sequel to the original, but it is definitely not better than the first one. I just wish we could of actually seen X-Force.