Have you seen Deadpool 2?

Yes, and I liked it, albeit with some significant caveats. 

2(Spoilers below)

First, Vanessa getting fridged in the first ten minutes of the movie was a high barrier to get over. As much as I liked the rest of the movie, and I did, in the back of my head was the thought “they’d better fix this.” And they did in the credits with the time-travel device, but the result is that Monica Baccarin doesn’t get to do much in the film but be a Jean Grey-esque Dead Girlfriend Ghost, which is a shame both because the fridging trope is really pernicious and because Vanessa’s relationship with Wade was one of my favorite things of the first film. 

Second, T.J Miller is a scumbag in so many areas of his life, and I really wish that they’d managed to Christopher Plummer him out of the movie. He absolutely cannot be in Deadpool 3. 

But everything else I really liked. Julian Dennison as Russell Collins really sold the emotional heart of the film and was quite funny as well, and I had no idea he was essentially Rusty from X-Factor. Could have used a bit more of the X-Force – as much as the brutal joke was really funny, definitely wanted more Terry Crewes. Zazie Beetz stole every scene she was in, and they would be mad not to have her as a lead in the “real” X-Force movie. And Josh Brolin continues to kill it as Cable; he’s definitely the unsung “hero” of 2018 superhero movies. 

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