Lives up to expectations

Rating: 9/10 (20 May 2018)

There are these movies that when you walk out of the cinema you simply wonder whether anything is able to top it. Well, this happens to be one of those films. Okay, I wasn't breaking my sides all the way through, but since I knew what to expect having seen the first film, I have to admit that I was quite impressed. While this is a superhero movie, it is actually more of a comedy, and in a way it is quite a spoof of many of the other superhero movies as well.
You see, Deadpool really doesn't take itself too seriously, even though they do drop hints that it is actually a part of the extended X-men universe (even though the time lines have changed dramatically, but sometimes that is just a few mistakes). However, Deadpool takes this too the extreme, and even goes as far as 'cleaning up the timelines' at the end. In fact, this movie is so crazy we even have Deadpool autograph a box of cereal half way through.
So, Deadpool has found his sweetspot, and the film opens up with him travelling all over the world cleaning up everybody's mess (though I do wonder how he manages to get his swords through customs, though once again we really can't take this film too seriously). However, things do get out of hand, and he ends up losing big time, which is why the film opens with him lying on a number of cans full of gasoline. Of course, this is Deadpool, so he does have this annoying habit of regenerating.
Anyway, in comes Cable, a cyborg from the future, who is attempting to track down a mutant that was responsible for the death of his wife and child. Deadpool has already been caught up in this mess, since he found himself as a member of the X-men (trainee), and was arrested when he attacked a nurse at a school for demutating mutants. So, the film ends up being one of those films where he has to get to his ward before anything nasty happens to him.
As I mentioned, this film certainly doesn't take itself seriously at all, though it did get somewhat annoying during the time he was at Xavier's School for the Gifted (actually, there is a Xavier's college in Melbourne, and apparently the students believe themselves to be pretty gifted), because unfortunately the jokes do get a little annoying at times. I guess this is a problem with these types of films since they can go so overboard at times that the jokes are just plain annoying. Still, Deadpool 2 is a pretty awesome ride, and certainly lives up to expectations.