Movie Review Dead Pool 2016 Film

Ryan Reynolds stars as a superhero not quite like the others in the latest — and certainly raunchiest — Marvel movie, directed by Tim Miller.

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For the multitudes who feared that, after Fantastic Four, Fox might simply be rummaging too far down into Marvel's basement in search of a few more scraps of lucre, the joke's on them. It takes a little while to get in gear — or perhaps just to adjust to what's going on here — but once it does, Deadpool drops trou to reveal itself as a really raunchy, very dirty and pretty funny goof on the entire superhero ethos, as well as the first Marvel film to irreverently trash the brand. Just what anyone suffering from genre burnout might appreciate at this point, as well as a big in-joke treat for all but the most reverent fanboys, this film looks to be hitting the market at just the right time — with Christmas releases now in the rearview mirror — to rake in some sweet returns.

Given the surprising amount of nudity, raw sex jokes and nonstop underlined and bold-faced, racy dialogue, it's amusing to picture the countless pubescent boys who will be plotting a way to get into this extremely R-rated romp. Not only does Ryan Reynolds give it his all, shall we say, but the conversations here mostly resemble the sort of thing you'd expect to hear around last call at a Bakersfield biker bar. Or, more to the point, what you'd get if you mashed up the dialogue from the two previous scripts written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, Zombieland and G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

Production companies: Marvel, Kinberg Genre, The Donners' Company

Distributor: Fox

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller, Gina Carano, Leslie Uggams, Brianna Hildebrand, Karan Soni, Jed Rees, Stefan Kapicic, Randal Reeder, Isaac C. Singleton Jr.

Director: Tim Miller

Screenwriters: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick

Producers: Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds, Lauren Shuler Donner

Executive producers: Stan Lee, John J. Kelly, Jonathon Komack, Martin, Aditya Sood, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick

Director of photography: Ken Seng

Production designer: Sean Haworth

Costume designer: Angus Strathie

Editor: Julian Clarke

Music: Tom Holkenborg

Visual effects supervisor: Jonathan Rothbart

Casting: Ronna Kress

Rated R, 108 minutes