The Merc Really Does Have a Mouth

Rating: 7/10 (13 February 2016)

Once again along comes a movie that I hugely anticipated and I find it, well, just okay. Anyway what more could have I expected from this film, but I have to say that the plot was, well, ordinary. Not so much in a bad sense, but it was similar to, say, Wolverine, it's just that it starred Deadpool as opposed to Wolverine. Okay, it wasn't exactly the same, but it simply seemed as if the creators took the basic outline of Wolverine and changed the characters, dialogue, and scenes, but pretty much kept everything else. Mind you, you can't get characters anywhere near as opposite as Deadpool and Wolverine – actually, come to think of you swap the hair for a spandex suit, and remove the adamatine coated bones (and claws), and the big mouth, then you could probably say that they are fairly similar.
Mind you Deadpool is much more a spoof film than anything else, though it is not a spoof film in the same sense as those really bad spoof films that you fortunately don't see all that much anymore (probably because the go straight to video – or even straight to Youtube). Rather it is the Marvel Cinematic Universe taking a really good laugh at itself, and while there are only a couple of X-men (Collosus and Negasonic), it is clear that it is set in the same universe. In fact there is even a scene where you see a model Deadpool as he appeared in Wolverine (as well as a joke about sowing his mouth shut).
That's the thing with Deadpool, he simply cannot shut up, and if there isn't anybody in the film to talk to he'll unashamedly turn to the audience and have a good old chat with them. Further he isn't a hero, and once again he is pretty clear about that, to the point that he flat out refuses to join the X-men (and doesn't seem to be all that keen on joining the Brotherhood of Mutants either). Further, he seems to be pretty accident prone, and forgetful, including leaving his spare ammo at home in the opening scene. All this adds up to a rather amusing interlude within the X-men, Marvel Cinematic Universe saga (and while it is set in the modern age, despite him apparently being killed in Wolverine, we must remember that the entire universe was reset in Days of Future Past).
All in all, it's a pretty fun movie, with some clever dialogue, making good use of a rather unique mutant (though technically he isn't a mutant because he gained his powers as opposed to being born with them). Don't expect anything too serious though, because that is definitely not what this movie is.