Deadpool

[The Blackangel]

I love this movie. Typically I hate comedies, but the cynicism in it cracks me up. Despite Johnny Depp being my absolute and all time favorite actor, no one but Ryan Reynolds could have pulled this character off correctly. he is the best actor alive when it comes to playing a cynical character like Deadpool. No one can beat his cynical abilities. Not even Johnny.

If I was to rate this movie I would give it a solid 15/10. Deadpool 2 wasn't as good as the first one, but it was still a great movie.

[Empire]

Watching the film is like sitting at dinner with a teen-ager who believes that, if he swears long and loudly enough, he will shock the grownups into accepting him as one of their own.

[Shagger]

I've always believed the for something to be genuinely funny, it needs to go hand with intelligence. That doesn't mean it has to be mature or sophisticated, all the that means isn't something that relies on reactions generated buy pure impulse. It take a great deal of intelligence and foresight to present a scenario to the audience that get's their minds right ware you want them to get the exact reaction you want.

 

18 minutes ago, Empire said:

Watching the film is like sitting at dinner with a teen-ager who believes that, if he swears long and loudly enough, he will shock the grownups into accepting him as one of their own.

 

That's why your wrong. Some douchebag wondering around swearing, making random pop culture references and relying of sexual humour and toilet humour is not funny. That's just stupid, and stupid isn't funny, not really, and it certainly isn't Deadpool. Deadpool is a very immature character in a lot of ways, but it's all put together where it absolutely depends on the audience's intelligence to bring the humour to life. What makes Deadpool funny, and @The Blackangel is right, he is extremely funny, is the complex way the character perceives himself and the world around him. He's self aware, yet utterly deluded at the same. It's maybe as if he maybe knows he's fictional, but is maybe confused about what fictional wold he's maybe in and maybe confused about what part he's supposed to play is this world... maybe. Despite that, he goes after his goals with the tenacity, certainty and drive of a superhero as if it's the simplest thing in the world. It's that sense of unpredictably combine with just how good the writers were at plotting his actions to have them make sense no matter how absurd they is why I love both the films so much.

 

Ryan Reynolds was born to play this character, you can tell that he understands as well as anyone what the appeal of this character is and what makes him as entertaining and hilarious as he is. He can do that because he's smart as much as anything else, all comedians and comic actors are. People seriously underestimate how much brains it takes to be funny.

 

Deadpool isn't even the only example of how immaturity can be funny when crafted with legitimate intelligence. Look at chows like South Park and Family guy that look like immature, fart-poop-boobies-swear word joke nonsense at first glance, but very cleverly weave in social and political satire into make up to really make the humour stand out.