Deadpool

The most refreshing comic-book adaptation of the decade, Deadpool boldly stride against the established safe paths of Marvel, cleverly and with the knowledge of the universe of its origins, not taking itself seriously, yet overshadowing everything that does. Honestly, with the thoughtfully edited (!) and heartfelt dramatic storyline, excellent catchphrases and great, easy-to-follow action sequences. And without the annoying digital bullshit. It is a comic-book adaptation with a smaller budget, but with more heart put into it by its creators. Maybe over time I will increase my rating to five stars, as enthusiasm usually grows with the second viewing. (09.08.2016)

Aside from a certain mono-theme that gets tiresome by the end, what I actually find most frustrating about it is that Deadpool is only childish but rarely really smart. I'd have liked a few more action-planning sketches, but also more questions about whether the studio really doesn't have the rights to more mutants. It reminded me a lot of Kick-Ass 2. I raise my middle finger seven times out of ten. (04.03.2016)

After I watched the trailer for the first time, I didn’t have much faith in Deadpool. However, the ratings at this site have outright made me go to the cinema to see for myself. The result is that Deadpool did exactly what it was supposed to do. It was a little awkward at the beginning. After half an hour, I didn’t know what to think, but as soon as Deadpool started to crack the one-liners, it was absolutely unparalleled and he kept firing them like bullets. At that moment, I was enjoying every possible and impossible character of this comic universe and I was thinking about whether anyone will even appreciate this movie in 20, maybe 30 years. In the end, it doesn’t even matter, because revenue is getting generated now and it is all-telling at the moment. (18.02.2016)

Good, pretty good. It's actually exactly what I wanted to see and what they promised. There were a couple of times I thought it could have been even wilder, but I can understand that a freak like Deadpool still needs to be tamed the first time around. The budget wasn't the highest, nut fortunately they manage to mask it well most of the time. The opening scene is intense and the crappy visual effects do peek out a few times at the end, but by that time you'll like the main character so much you won't care. It's all about Deadpool. He's exactly the kind of likeable asshole who can spout crazy lines, enjoy perversely funny situations and cut his opponents to pieces. Ryan Reynolds and everyone behind the camera clearly enjoy it and understand that if they don't have the resources to make a major league comic book blockbuster, then they should at least enjoy their smaller film and hope that this enthusiasm rubs off on the audience. It worked. There's a lot that could be faulted with Deadpool, but its disarming honesty and joy at being made and being exactly what Reynolds and Tim Miller envisioned it to be will easily win you over in the end. Unless you mind masturbation jokes and an above-average number of severed limbs. (16.05.2017)

Watching Deadpool is a bit like walking around Wenceslas Square with a drunken friend who goes to the middle of the sidewalk and starts pissing. Every ten seconds he screams: I GOT MY DICK IN MY HAND!, which is quite funny at first, but then it becomes a little predictable and tiring. Deadpool is unique not in that he is so different from other superheroes, but in that he constantly thematizes the difference and hits the audience over the head with it. Otherwise, he’s just as transparent as Captain America, only where the captain behaves like Dušín, Deadpool will necessarily always behave like a dick. It is simply a model return of the suppressed. Marvel has pushed the violence, vulgarity and sex out of its films for so long that there was enough material for Deadpool to fill all the holes (fists) in an exemplary manner. It works as fan service and lubricant for the next X-Men films, where there will definitely not be any cursing or masturbation. And the same goes for the entire Marvel Universe, whoever is behind it. Don't get me wrong - the one-liners are great, the action is great. But beneath the surface of the jokes toward correctness and masturbation, at its core is exactly the same barren romantic story with a bad villain (Ed Skrein = lame), as in the case of many other comic films. Deadpool earns money by pointing out its weaknesses, but the result is not as fun and cohesive a spectacle as The Guardians of the Galaxy, but rather a confusingly zigzagging mix that masks its weaknesses with pubertal excesses. From my point of view, it doesn't work as a movie, but rather as a fanboy mix of gags with a variable level. As the runtime grows, so does the feeling that the film is on auto pilot and there is one good gag for every three average ones. OK, it’s fine, but the magic of Kick-Ass doesn't happen again, because Vaughn can pee against the wind without stressing to you a hundred times that he's holding his dick in his hand, and that is something that’s not supposed to be done. Too bad I'm not 20 years younger. As my colleague Samohan Řepák rightly remarked: it could have been the best film I had ever seen. In the tradition of Czech film, I have to rename this to a SUPERHERO FILM. [60%] (10.02.2016)

My Little Pony: The Love Story Movie... It's not even half as subversive and punk as Kick-Ass. To the extent that it tries to mess with all those comic book blockbusters and Hollywood movie industry, the creators play it surprisingly way too safe since they follow the same rules (rude bloody R-style does not change anything), because Deadpool is nothing more than a completely standard-built comic book origin. But by far the best-built comic book origin in recent years, which works both on the serious level of the path to revenge and, contrary to all expectations, on the romantic level, which is not here only out of duty. And the fact that it's all wrapped up in a meta-conscious style that is constantly teasing the viewer, that is breaking the fourth wall and that is rinsed in streams of blood packed with one-liners is just a tasty icing on the cake. Yes, there is more than a small number of infantile and adolescent "American pie" style scenes that are all the same and that quickly become annoying, but there is so much "funny moments" (or at least attempts of funny moments) in every minute of the footage that in that tsunami, even the weaker ones simply disappears. I would just appreciate something more worthy of Deadpool next time. For example, his personal anger towards Marvel's top managers or something similarly meta and crazy. (17.02.2016)

Wade wasn't kidding: it's a love story. Thank God. As a shoot-em-up comedy/parody, Deadpool willingly degrades itself with his dozens of pop culture references that threaten to turn it into just instant diarrhea at several points. But it always tightens the screws at the right moment, successfully balancing humor on the edge of the most trivial prepubescent enthusiasm, and everything is fine again. But it wouldn't work without the magical Morena Baccarin. Her first real escape from the world of TV series suits her incredibly well, and while everyone is bowing before the unexpectedly huge financial success of the red madman, especially Ryan Reynolds, I wish her success above all. (16.02.2016)

“I'm too old for this shit.” Like the comic book, the film version of Deadpool is a victory for the marketing and corporate machinery that cynically passes itself off as a cool, non-conformist and rebellious work of outsiders. Significant credit for this is due to the enduring myth of the R-rating category (M, in the case of comic books) as a putative mark of radicalism and defiance of censorship. Is it actually a measure of quality if a few profanities and some drops of blood appear in a film? The fact that Deadpool became a major blockbuster only serves to confirms the uniformity of the mainstream of the new millennium. In the eighties or nineties, it would be only one of the dozens of films with cheeky catchphrases and a few action scenes that competed monthly on the shelves of video rental shops for the attention of teenagers and children. (19.01.2017)

It's a good movie. Cool plot, nice narration, good fights, some good lines. Can't say I was laughing my ass off though. And I'm a little disappointed because that's what I was expecting. On the other hand, I got an original love story that wasn't that romantic, but still had something to it. 3.5 stars. (19.02.2016)

A great, irreverent, entertaining tomfoolery that pokes fun at comic book films. Ryan Reynolds at last in a role (of a squashy avocado) that suits him, reels out one great line after another. And Morena Baccarin is a sex goddess filling up wall space (and hard discs) of many young (and older) boys’ rooms. Demolition of the fourth wall works much better than I expected. In terms of story, its a romantic classic that doesn’t stand on fucking alone, as it seemed at first, but has a good non-superhero heart. It’s infantile, childish and madcap. Just my cup of tea. Flawless subtitles and enticement to a part 2 work excellently. (16.02.2016)

Put on this vulgar sexist crap to people 30 years from now and they'll feel about 10 times worse than we do today watching the incredibly gay Wham! live tour. Not that it isn’t a good film by today's twisted standards of audience expectation, it pretty much is; it's also self-aware, dynamic, just desperately uncritical. But it'll make a billion, so it's fine. Comics are running out of ideas, so along come comic book parodies of comics. I'm looking forward to 2020 to see what Marvel's parody will be. (14.02.2016)

Deadpool is great fun, obviously an enthusiastic film that its creators fell in love with a long time ago and now it's time for audiences to fall in love with it, or at least like it. There are tons of jokes and they are different - the vulgar ones are the most common and unfortunately after some time they started to bore me a bit, as they seemed more and more forced. But then there are other jokes that poke fun at other films and this film, and even a few obviously inspired by Monty Python. When Wade and Vanessa argue about who had the worse childhood, it's like the Four Yorkshiremen python sketch, when (Captain) Deadpool fights Colossus (which is clearly the funniest scene), it's like King Arthur and the Black Knight. Even Basil Fawlty's name is mentioned in the film (which, however, the Czech subtitles rather incomprehensibly change to Hugh Grant, just as they make Cocoon into E. T. the Extraterrestrial)... Of course, I preferred that kind of humor. "I had a dream about Liam Neeson. I kidnapped his daughter and he didn't like it. There's three of those movies already. Maybe he’s just a bad parent." (11.02.2016)

Deadpool is a cool dude. I loved his ability to openly and bluntly poke fun at the schematically one-dimensional and unoriginal stories of the Marvel Universe, not only by referring to them verbally so often that he himself is the last person a psychiatrist would write terms like "super" or even "hero" in a testimonial, but also by the fact that his story is delivered humorously, on multiple time levels, yet coherently and, most importantly, sympathetically. The script delivers the most brutal punches right from the start (and that's not counting the absolutely brilliant opening scene), and the motifs around Wilson's transformation into a superhero and the subsequent chase of the villain fit into that mostly mocked comic book scheme probably more than intended, but the film still manages to entertain, even if the surprises gradually wane and the viewer just waits to see what bullshit Master Pool will come up with. The action sequences are wonderfully intense, imaginative and don't look too artificial, the love story is OK but perhaps a bit redundant, and the only thing I can say about the actors is that Ryan Reynolds pulls it off with aplomb and that the others are basically just superfluous figures in his kid-unfriendly extravagant one-man-show. I'm satisfied for sure, but Guardians of the Galaxy entertained me a bit more, despite the cheesy story. 80% (22.02.2016)

Surprisingly, Deadpool scores the most points where no one expected or perhaps wanted it to, which is its basic storyline. While it's buried beneath a billion tons of incredibly juvenile humor, it's all the more surprising for its noir haze, in which the antihero chases after his mcguffin but doesn't get it, though he at least finds his way to his fella fatale. All this against a backdrop of great events resolved by the hero in the course of his selfish pursuit. For all those who wonder how something like this could have been churned out from the tightly guarded production background of Marvel, I suggest you see this as the kind of indulgence that lets them pour out proven pieces, by the dozen, using proven methods, so on the other hand it's not really a very meritorious work. Plus, based on the visuals alone you'd suspect the Marvel factory after any minute of the film (the same lighting, cleaned up set, civilians acting like objects), not to mention the fight scenes, which are absolutely familiar. Equally commendable are some accurate attacks on contemporary superhero production for the widest possible spectrum of audiences ("Is it sexist to hit you? Is it more sexist to not hit you?", "It's like the studio didn't have enough money for any more X-Men"), though it crosses the line of meta-film a bit beyond my tolerance. Likewise the level of the humor, with banter pretty much non-stop but dreadfully at the cost of quality, and above all you can practically hear the drummer going ba-dum-tsss after every line, which in this case makes him the ultimate jazz artist, but also highlights the fact that the jokes aren't really set up in any way, they don't build on each other and they don't gradate, which is particularly apparent during the brilliant bit of dialogue, which is perhaps the only one that deviates from this mantra, through which the main couple compete over who was more abused as a child. In short, it shows that this movie wasn’t made by someone with balls so much as someone paid to pretend they have them. It's violent and vulgar, but with violence that doesn't hurt and vulgarity that doesn't offend anyone. (31.05.2016)

I really enjoyed this ride. I already chuckled at the self-deprecating opening credits. It was nice to see that Reynolds can make fun of himself (Tom "Maverick" Cruise would probably have had a nervous fit after reading the script). What I like the most is that there is finally a superhero who is not afraid to take off the burden of his enemies’ lives by removing unnecessary limbs, heads, etc. I don't mind honesty, but I don't believe in people who never make mistakes, and the idea of turning the other cheek doesn’t appeal to me, so Deadpool was right up my alley. Plus, the Hello Kitty gun backpack and the bet from Putin were hilarious. Awesome! (20.06.2016)

It's wonderful to go to the cinema for a movie when you expect something and you also get exactly that. This is such a terrific ride with great characters that you simply want to see even more. I can't wait for the sequel already. "Deadpool" is one of the few current comic book movies that I am truly looking forward to. And no, I don't want unicorns anymore. (23.02.2016)

I think Deadpool is exactly the kind of movie that really deserves its financial success. I enjoyed the vast majority of jokes, the division of the movie into individual scenes works really well, and the great moments outweigh the weaker ones by far. However, I expected more from the movie as a whole. Although it is presented as a radically different superhero movie, in the end it is your standard Marvel movie playing it safe. Here’s hoping that the second installment, if there is one, will cut down on the unnecessarily over-the-top crude humor which gets old after a while, and add more sarcasm, cynicism and self-conscious winks to the audience. The potential is huge. (04.03.2016)