For all the hoopla surrounding Deadpool – strong box office receipts; excellent audience
reception; and even positive critical consensus – it doesn’t take long to look
past the surface to see that there’s not really much there apart from an
admittedly entertaining comic book adaptation. Shouldn’t that be enough for a
comic book superhero movie? We go for the entertainment, right? But nothing
else?
This may be a case of people getting a little too excited
just because the movie attempts to break ranks with the clichés of the genre.
Instead of pleasant PG-13 action that’s short on bad language and long on mild
violence, Deadpool sears up and down,
there’s sex, and the violence (though cartoonish) very violent and full of
blood. This ground has been trod before. Kick
Ass got there first, although I think Deadpool does it better and with great moral clarity.
