Even at its best, a superhero movie is still a superhero movie. You know exactly what you’re going to get: a lot of CGI battles, some stuff about good and evil wrapped up into a moral lesson, and some preaching about great power and great responsibility. If the original Deadpool taught us anything, it’s that this franchise doesn’t give a shit about any of that. And Deadpool 2 isn’t about a cool new superhero suit, some sort of convoluted timeline, or nerds trying to debate the energy properties of magic crystals or even selling action figures.
No, Deadpool 2 is a movie about dick jokes with occasional action sequences thrown in. This is a movie whose distant connection to the greater Marvel and X-Men universe only functions as a way to make fun of it. At its high points, Deadpool 2 is the greatest modern satire of a highly lucrative and bloated film genre. And even at its lowest, it’s the best comedy of the year so far.
Having settled down with his fiancée Vanessa, Deadpool spends his days and nights traveling the world and killing the shit out of bad guys. But when one of the guys who got away tracks our hero down and kills the love of his life, Deadpool hits rock bottom in a destructive explosion of cocaine and gasoline. After reluctantly joining the X-Men as a trainee, his first mission with Brianna Hildebrand Negasonic Teenage Warhead and the Stefan Kapicic-voiced Colossus requires the trio to obtain Russell, a punk-ass mutant with a New Zealand accent who's terrorizing his boarding school and goes by the name Firefist.
DEADPOOL 2 IS THE GREATEST MODERN SATIRE OF A HIGHLY LUCRATIVE AND BLOATED FILM GENRE.
But just as Deadpool is detaining Russell, he learns that the school's faculty has been abusing the children; Deadpool reacts by killing everyone involved. This naturally doesn't sit well with the even-tempered X-Men, who have him arrested along with Russell. But while Deadpool and Russell are in mutant prison, the complex is attacked by Cable, a mysterious cyborg from the future who is trying to kill Russell. Reluctantly, Deadpool ends up attempting to protect the kid from Cable, and eventually needs to enlist the help of a squad of heroes.
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