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Deadpool

***1/2/****

Jason Wiese | Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016

Well, hello there, reader!

Thank you very much for clicking on the link to this review, which you probably found via Facebook and/or Twitter, in the trusting assumption that I would not spoil one of the most highly anticipated comic book movie adaptations of the year for you in its entirety, which I could totally do right now if I felt like it.

However, that would be rude and, besides, seeing Deadpool, the rightfully R-rated origin story of the beloved Marvel Comics anti-hero with a twisted sense of humor and a soft spot for chimichangas, is meant to be an experience of absolute purity.

It helps that it is coming out this Friday, just in time for Valentine’s Day weekend, because it is the perfect date movie. There is non-stop, over-the-top action and relentlessly vulgar humor for the men and for the women, leading man Ryan Reynolds.

Reynolds could not be better as Wade Wilson, the “Merc with a Mouth”, who, in attempt to rid himself of cancer, undergoes a series of painful experiments that leave him indestructible, but also butt-ugly.

Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox: Pre-butt-ugly Wade Wilson (Reynolds) with girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). See? Told ya “Deadpool” was the perfect date movie.

Wilson is then inspired to don a suit of his favorite color, red (so his enemies do not see him bleed), adopt the titular alter ego and embark on a vengeful quest to make waste of the man who turned his face into waste: Ed Skrein as the film’s British villain, Ajax.

Now, you are probably thinking, “Well, this sounds like your typical formula for a superhero origin story.” Well, give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back because it totally is! And it is totally aware of that.

Throughout its intentionally predictable storyline, it calls out every superhero movie trope in the book so uniquely.

Photo created with EvilTakesManyForms.com; A “Deadpool”/”The Witch” parody crossover poster I made. I figured the “Merc with a Mouth” would appreciate it.

Deadpool himself, inhabiting a character trait that existed in the beginning of his comic book days, addresses these tropes directly to the audience, letting you know that he is fully aware that he is in a movie and that he is just as sick of the dumbed-down, PG-13 chokehold that his reluctant genre has been a victim of for years.

Reynolds, who also serves as co-producer of Deadpool, has wanted to make this film a reality for years, but what a great time now for a comic book movie this surreal, off-kilter and unapologetic to come out with superheroes practically becoming the dominant genre of the mainstream.

It is so uproarious, exciting and wonderfully self-aware that the fun never stops and you may not want it to end. It would be ill-advised to assume by its February release that it is a fluke. It may not be the superhero movie to end all superhero movies, but it is the superhero movie most likely to scare the other ones off.

Published on Newstime Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016