Med school dead fool...

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2017)

Although it peters out about three-quarters of the way through, the first three quarters of DEADPOOL are definitely worth sitting through: the movie's funny and cynical, with a definite "who gives a f---" attitude toward comic book super heroes. (By their own admissions, a number of the writers of comics from the early to the mid-1970s wrote said comics while indulging in a variety of mind-altering drugs. While this didn't make for BETTER comics, it certainly made for DIFFERENT ones. DEADPOOL fits right in with them.) It's interesting that not a lot of people seem to have gotten wind of the fact that DEADPOOL is really a flipping of the bird to comic book superheroes and their now quaint codes of conduct. The character himself might just as easily have been a Villain as a Hero, although his past as a corporate assassin pretty much settles that issue (at least, for ME it does). Written with an eye toward its target audience (young teens), DEADPOOL often straddles the fence between Adult and Adolescent entertainment. If one can hark back to one's misspent youth, one CAN enjoy DEADPOOL, despite its blatant catering to the under-twenty mentality. (It's the seemingly endless cgi finale that brings the movie to a screeching halt, the way cgi finales almost ALWAYS bring movies to a screeching halt; some of these animated sequences drag out so long that one finds oneself drifting off into daydreams of other things.) Better than average, but a far cry from Great.