With a Ryan Reynolds unleashed, the sequel gives more substance to his proposal, to overcome almost everything to the first delivery.
Deadpool, the original movie, weighed less than a packet of potato chips, but it was very fun. In its favor it had the fact that it broke with the codes, especially those that point to what to expect as a canon in a superhero movie, being at the same time a silly proposal that was recognized as silly and that had no other aspiration than to be dumb. Embracing that made her work on the path of those classic parody movies.
Also, taking advantage of all its film score - with swear words, ultraviolence and gags - the first Deadpool was superimposed on the fact that the character of the comic they adapted is not really the big deal. For that reason, beyond his amusing dialogues or the play of embracing his low budget for an overproduction, the main engine of that original delivery was a Ryan Reynolds who gave it his all.
In contrast, Deadpool 2 takes over as a direct response to the shortcomings of the first film, delivering a much stronger proposal, which takes even more advantage of the main character and the charisma of a protagonist who continues to shoot all the cartridges in each scene.
The most obvious aspect of Deadpool 2 is represented by the fact that David Leitch, an action doubles choreographer who made the leap as director with films like the first John Wick, co-directed with Chad Stahelski, is in charge of his direction. or Atomic Blonde. Hence, not only in this sequel, taking advantage of the commercial success of the first installment, it is clear that there are more resources put on screen to make for example a better Colossus, but also there is a better handling in what concerns each sequence of action.
Although the original was not bad in that area, Leitch takes everything to the next level, demonstrating with confidence a better handling of the camera, the choreography and tracking of each bullet fired, fist thrown and blood spilled. This sequel also represents an advance in all the other elements of production, since the costumes, sets and even character designs are more attractive.
The plus goes hand in hand with his story, which subverts the expectations of a sequel from the first scene, causing it is not easy to accept his tone. Jokes of by means, this new delivery plays with its protagonist in the search of a motivation so that it continues with life once it lost everything in the first minutes, except its condition of being an almost immortal mutant. To that idea they intertwine the concept of family, which support to define in the future the idea that the Reynolds character is part of a team in the already announced X-Force.
That structure will probably be a slap in the face for some who prefer the first movie, since there is an adolescent in the middle who is used as the axis of a new dynamic for Deadpool. However, the handling of characters, especially those that this sequel discards in one of its most insanely hilarious sequences, serve to put together an axis that contrasts with the inclusion of Cable, a guy that moves from the future with a mission: to kill that minor who protects the mercenary bigmouth.
The cable played by Josh Brolin is a good addition that serves as a counterpoint to the character of Reynolds, as he seems to be starring in a completely different movie. Its serious inclusion, in addition, serves to hook with the turn of a film that has among its many surprises, and that they are, a great villain of tome and spine that ends up crossing in the way of the objectives of all.
Although the surprises of this film give much laughter, especially what happens with the promoted inclusion of the X-Force, the great but this sequel represents an idea that was unavoidable: the joke lost novelty and inevitably the sequel lost the freshness that I was just going to have the original. As we already know what to expect as a basis, there are things that end up being taken for granted and no longer surprising. If Deadpool was a corn, in this sequel is not so tender.
The good thing is that the filmmakers, perhaps keeping that point clear, do their best in this sequel when it comes to delivering elements that go beyond the norm already established by the previous one. The best example is undoubtedly Domino, a mutant character with absurd powers more typical of comics, but that are transferred to film in a notably cinematic way. The character played by Zazie Beetz, in fact, is one of the best bets that have been added to the genre of superhero movies in a long time.
In the line for the sum, Deadpool 2 is "more film" than the original in many ways, and also exceeds it in areas that give it the substance that the original lacked. At the same time, we must consider that the jokes are not entirely fresh, except for those who are super ñoños and who represent references to comics that were not in the first. But undoubtedly Ryan Reynolds shines once again to "raise his audience to the stage", taking them to a stop similar to that which existed towards the humorist Sandy and that joke of the taxi driver and the Spaniard. The guy sells us the movie and there's no way to get on his party.
In that sense, Deadpool 2 causes something very strange, typical of good satire, and that makes it more valuable: take the taunts of many things of the superhero genre, and Ryan Reynolds own career, to make the audience too Be part of the joke. Maybe that's why what everyone else will remember is what should least matter: their post-credit scenes. There, this film embraces the absurdity of its proposal to close everything with a flourish, showing that satire is the best thing about this irritating mutant.