ACTUALLY laughing out loud

Rating: 8/10 (10 August 2018)

The simplest thing I can say about Deadpool 2 is that I actually laughed out loud. I don't normally laugh that much anymore from anything, but despite my cynicism of some of the regurgitation of material that was used in the original, this is one of the few movies that actually had me laughing out loud.
Seeing Ryan Reynolds reprise the role he was born for is such a breath of fresh air. Reynolds has been in a sort of time-warp for his entire career until he hit gold with Deadpool. He's unbelievably funny as the talkuntilyouwanttoshootyourself super "hero".
Josh Brolin is absolutely amazing and menacing as Cable. Zazie Beetz is incredible as Domino and because of her powers, her fight scenes are hilariously gory. I can let it slide that Hollywood needed to rub their diversity hands over her character and change her from white to black. This is the far left leaning Hollywood after all.
One criticism is the popping up of regressive left identity politics and views again. It seems like a lot of the movies and TV shows I watch are increasingly wagging their finger at these issues from a 1 sided perspective.
The most shocking thing about the movie is it managed to somehow keep the momentum of the original going, although it did lose some of the originality that made the first movie so amazing. Solid 8.