A Pool of Fun... But Not Too Deep of an Experience

Rating: 8/10 (12 March 2020)

2016's "Deadpool" is comedically brazen and brutally gory. It's certainly fun and thrilling, but it's puerile of those things rather than being a movie of deeper meaningfulness.
As an avid comics fan, Deadpool has never been a character that has gravitated me in comparison to far superior others. To me, there's not much enduring depth to him beyond his quips, juvenile and profane humour, and ostentatious behaviour. He's a character to appeal to the easily amused. The personification of jingling keys for a baby's attention.
Deadpool was hatched from the '90s egg when the comics industry trend had an influx of characters with superfluous costume design elements (excessive pouches a prime example), their bodies soaked with weapons, and contrived sounding and spelt names for forced edginess. It wasn't the tendency of the entire comics published of the era, there were quality exceptions for sure, but those superfluous elements were definitely the popular saddle riding trend at the time, defined the decade, and it was a damaging contributor among other factors to the then market collapse of the comics industry (Marvel had eventually declared bankruptcy). I digress, but Deadpool came from that same vapid mould.
To conclude this, I'm not fond of Deadpool as a character, but I don't want the assumption that 2016's "Deadpool" isn't entertainingly worthwhile for what it is. Because it certainly is. I gave it an 8/10. I just don't feel there's anything meaningful beyond a character who's seemingly only purpose is getting cheap laughs. But hey, to each their own opinion; I'm just expressing mine.
Just as a bonus thought, of further detriment to the movie, due to the silly nature of the character, any emotional weight or tension of a scene that is intended to stir things like empathy, suspense, or sadness within the audience is nearly squashed entirely; if Deadpool continually strives for laughs and mockery of it - doesn't take those things seriously, why should the audience?