Clever script turns the breaking of the fourth wall into a story

Rating: 9/10 (22 May 2018)

Lets go back to the 1st Deadpool. What we had there was lots of fun, lots of wit, but actually very little story development. I still liked it a lot, but it felt like the script writers were given a new toy - lets imagin the famous 4th wall is broken to smithereens and see what happens. And they loved this broken 4th wall toy so much all else became insignificant. But since Ryan Reynolds has tons of charisma, and Morena Baccarin isn't short on the stuff too, it worked.
We could say this is mostly true of the sequel, but it's done in a much more deliberate manner. It's as if the kids learned how to play with this toy. So despite of the fact that we rarely come across any real character in this movie. That is, we do see many cartoons passing by on the screen, most of them don't really matter, at least not in Deadpool's mind, and since the entire story is being told through his eyes we only see them as cartoons, even if Colossus gets a fair amount of screen time, he never grows into a fully developed character, others don't even get that much, passing as another short gag in the script. In fact only the talent of Josh Brolin and Zazie Beetz creates a character where very little character is really written for them. And still it works. And it works better than it did in the original installment. Because it's done thoughtfully, it shows what one can do with complete creative freedom if one keeps his sense of boundries and limitations, and understands the nature of the media.
I only wish the writers of Avengers Infinity War had half the sense of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick who wrote this with Ryan Reynolds. It would've made it into a much better movie too.