As a kid I remember combing the comic shops looking for whatever caught my attention. One day I stumbled upon a book that predominantly featured the X-Men villain Apocalypse on the cover. Along with him was Cable, an X-Men I had become familiar with from the animated series in the nineties and next to him was someone new to me. This guy kind of reminded me of Spider-Man in looks and Spidey is my all time favorite hero, only this guy had katanas and guns. I thought, "Why not?" That's when I purchased my first issue of Fabian Niceiza's Cable and Deadpool. After that first glimpse of the merc with a mouth, I began to back track on every issue I could find featuring him which at the time was very little other than the Cable and Deadpool series but I loved it. He was more insane than Spidey and perhaps twice as tortured. I found a strange kindred spirit in this character that spouted outdated pop culture references as much as I did and all to hide the pain he felt in his life. Deadpool to me was an exaggerated Universal Studios Monster, misunderstood and often hid behind his comedy. We all hide ourselves behind something, why not something fun? To the few of us that clung to this strange "hero" you can only imagine how joyed we were to find out he would be featured in a film played by non other than Ryan Reynolds. Sadly that film was X-Men Origins Wolverine and that film was the greatest misrepresentation of a character ever. They gave Deadpool extra powers, no character development and teased us with shaky jokes in the beginning of the film and then sewed the Merc with the Mouth's mouth shut. 
I cannot describe to you how much I detested and hated that film. However there was hope. Fresh off of writing Zombieland came Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick who decided to take a crack at delivering us the Deadpool we deserve. Set to star again was the always perfect choice of Ryan Reynolds who himself was in love with the character of Deadpool. The script was complete with the breaking of 4th wall, insane jokes galore, fan favorite Deadpool side characters, blood and violence, language and even mentions of how horrible X-Men Origins was. Obviously the script was shelved and it seemed like we'd never actually get this movie. Years of nothing but script leaks and fan outcry at how amazing the script was, with Reynolds always attached but no green light on the project. Over this course of time Deadpool grew from obscurity to fan icon, prominently being featured in the bigger marvel comics and events, garnering television appearances and action figures. He grew the most through cosplay as many fans made their own costumes flooding conventions with Deadpools, yet still nothing. What finally drove it was a last ditch effort of desperation from first time director Tim Miller. Miller was an animation director who worked on countless shorts, commercials and visual sequences for movies but never got a chance to direct a feature film himself. Being in his sixties, he finally said screw it and shot a visual fx sequence with Ryan Reynolds voicing Deadpool that spearheaded the entire production of the film. Once it leaked, fan reaction was insane and the studio was finally forced to green light the production. Now this long arduous process that had been going for about a decade has finally bore fruit. Deadpool is here to dangle his fruit in our eyes.
In one of the most ingenious opening sequences of all time, preparing us for the insanity being unleashed upon us. We get a freeze frame rotation of a car crashing with Deadpool causing all kinds of carnage. As the camera rotates in and around the crashing vehicle we are given glimpses of Deadpool's mayhem as well as an opening credits sequence that has more in jokes on the cast and crew than anything such as starring "a hot chick" and my personal favorite being written by, "The real heroes." Then we are thrust into the mayhem of Deadpool's life as we have Deadpool giving us the audience his background on how he became himself while also kicking ass on a freeway taking out bad guys. Ex special forces Wade Wilson takes odd jobs here and there at a seedy bar doing mercenary missions, mostly scaring people, to make ends meet. At this bar he meets the love of his life a nymphomaniac hooker, Vanessa (Morena Baccarrin) and they fall in love because they are both as insane as one another. Sadly Wade is diagnosed with cancer and basically gives up when a strange man shows up at his bar and offers him a chance to survive due to his skills in special forces. A doctor by the name of Ajax has discovered a way to painfully unlock dormant mutant genes in people which results in Wade gaining a healing factor but also becoming a horrible looking monster. Thus Deadpool is born and he burns down the facility for all the pain Ajax has caused him, but Ajax escapes. What we then get is Deadpool hunting down Ajax to find a cure for his horrible visage so he can return to his beloved Vanessa and live happily again. 
You're probably thinking that's some really dark serious stuff right there for Deadpool! Not at all! In fact for the longest time I was completely worried that the way pop culture had portrayed the character as of late we would only have the goofball aspect cracking jokes every few seconds with no character development whatsoever. This was an amazing breath of fresh air because indeed the "real heroes" succeeded in balancing Deadpool perfectly! I love the aspect of him telling the audience the story as he is having the big fight on the bridge hunting down Ajax or as we learn his real name, Francis.
As he tells us the story he breaks fourth wall so many times. Not only telling the story but interacting with other characters in the film. We get several call outs of Green Lantern hate, one very obvious Wolverine Origins jab and a couple of times he even tells characters he's talking to the audience! He even calls out a few funny tidbits on the X-Men and Fox upon meeting up with Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead. 
Speaking of the X-Men, one of my biggest worries was that they would be shoe horned in but the two in the movie almost steal the show. Negasonic Teenage Warhead, if that is not already the best name ever, embodies everything that name represents. She is angry snd unimpressed by anything which Deadpool plays off perfectly, but when she needs to will effortlessly kick some ass. My favorite scene involved her and Deadpool in creating something crazily reminiscent of Wolverine's fastball special but ten times better and funnier. Then dear god there is Colossus. I have never been so happy with a representation of this character in my whole life. He is the cheesy powerful big brother Russian type I have always wanted. I've always had a problem with how American he has been portrayed in the films and how tiny he's been. In this movie he's huge with a thick Russian accent and he constantly tries to baby Negasonic and teach Deadpool how to be a superhero lecturing him. Watching this huge man eat a bowl of cereal might be one of the funniest damn things I've ever seen in my life. I will say that through Colossus lecturing we hear the phrase, "superhero" quite a bit and it behind to come out of the mouths of the rest of the characters way too much beating us over the heads with it. We get it, Deadpool is a crappy representation of a superhero. It's really the only joke that falls flat to me as you hear the phrase so much.
The bad guys are pretty dull honestly. They're just fodder for Deadpool to slice and dice which works perfectly for Deadpool. Then of course there's the brick powerhouse that is Angel Dust who beats the hell out of Colossus. She's a pretty decent adversary but never actually gets any development in her character, but there's a really funny exchange between her and Colossus when a bra strap snaps during battle. Ajax himself is a really generic British bad guy but for once that works because all it does is give Deadpool verbal ammo to berate him and tear him down ever single conceivable way possible. Honestly the best villain isn't even truly a villain but he's one of my favorite Deadpool character's ever who gets a little scene in the middle of the shoot out that just made me smile like no other. If you recognize him when Deadpool calls him out by name you'll know how awesome it is. 
We also get Deadpool faves Weasel and Blind Al. TJ Miller cast as Weasel is the second best casting in this movie right behind Ryan Reynolds. He lives up to that name because while Weasel is Deadpool's best friend he is pretty ready to let him die and maybe make some money off of it. He's not explored as much as I would've liked. Here Weasel is just a dude at the bar who takes bets and hands out assignments. In the comics Weasel is always designing weird new tech for Deadpool and even at one point builds a giant mech suit and becomes a Las Vegas Super hero! I hope they expand on his character more in future films. Blind Al is funny as hell in this movie as Deadpool's roommate giving him really weird advice here and there, but the problem here is she just kind of appears. It's funny how she does it and its fun for fans but I'm not entirely sure it works for an average movie goer. She's another character I'd like to see expanded upon perhaps even more than Weasel.
One of my all time favorite love stories for Deadpool is his relationship with the X-Man Siren. It is represented in the pages of nineties Deadpool when she takes off Deadpool's mask and sees his face and he is shocked and awed that she doesn't think him a hideous monster and from that moment on he was always I love with her. While I am a huge Deadpool fan I haven't read everything as over the years his original material has become a little harder to find outside of trade paperbacks so I don't know if Vanessa is an original Deadpool character. Morena definitely played her part amazingly introducing herself as a crazed lover of Deadpool and showing she herself could kick some ass. She morphed perfectly into the relationship and gave the movie the emotional weight necessary balancing both comedy and drama in her performance. She is a fan favorite genre actress and it's great to see her on the big screen in such a pivotal role like this, it makes me wonder where the character will go in congruence of future films and how the relationship will be affected now that Wade is Deadpool. 
Ryan Reynolds no matter what without question was and always will be Deadpool. Way before I even knew he'd play him in Wolverine Origins I'd knew he'd be perfect for it. What is amazingly different about his performance in this movie is Reynolds is finally unleashed. You can tell many a time he had to hold back in Origins but in his own movie he goes completely insane and does anything and everything to steal and chew the scenery which is exactly how Deadpool does it. He balances it too. He can run a million jokes a minute but still give us that depth and weight that makes us care about this goofy idiot. This is the part the man was born to play. The inflections in his voice alone when he's making jokes compared to when he's normally taking is superb acting. He delivered us straight dramedy.
For a final Hail Mary career move Tim Miller hit it out of the park once again like George Miller proving age can only make things better. I am also so glad Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick stayed on board and stuck it out so long to deliver this movie to us. The trio of Miller directing, Wernick and Reese writing along with Reynolds acting is flawless. There is only one huge problem with the film and I blame Fox on this a bit. I've seen almost the entirety of the first half of the movie in the trailers, which brings a problem with a comedy like this because once you laugh at the jokes so many times some of them just don't go full force when you see the film. That's a problem with modern Hollywood in general though so I can't fault the movie much for that. In the end this was a really decent film for something I've been waiting a long time to see, all the elements are right and I'm ready for more! Which if you stay after the credits you get the greatest eighties homage ever along with a very blunt teaser to Deadpool 2! For being an awesome carnage ridden, foul mouthed movie with heart, I give Deadpool four and a half chimichangas out of five!
