Dead good too.

Rating: 7/10 (18 May 2018)

Deadpool puts together his X-Force team, to help save a teenage boy from Cable (Josh Brolin) a time travelling super soldier, who has come back from the future to kill him before he can cause devastation in the future.
"Deadpool 2" is good, It is, . . . it's just not great. It's too similar to the first one, for me. In some ways, that's a positive. The returning characters are definitely welcome but there are a lot of gags from the first film that are reused, line by line in some cases and a lot of times I feel the writers assumed that swearing will be enough to be funny, when that's only sometimes true. Also sadly true - even though they sometimes used alternate takes - a lot of the funniest lines and references were in the trailers.
Maybe part of the problem is that the MCU have stolen away some of Deadpool's gimmick. Self-referential humour is as prevalent in "Thor: Ragnorok" for example, as is was in "Deadpool". Deadpool is left with little except taking it to more of an extreme and repeated jokes about paedophilia can start to drag after a while.
The new characters are welcome additions though, particularly Domino and Cable, and giving Reynolds a larger group to spark off is a good idea. I do hope that a proper "X-Force" film does come next. The action scenes have improved, as you might expect when switching to a director who worked on "John Wick".
It's has its moments definitely, It's just that it somehow doesn't add up to a particularly memorable whole.