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Created Feb 28, 2016 09:41PM PST • Edited Mar 27, 2020 11:11PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Great 4.0

   Deadpool is the superhero for a new generation, one that casually talks about a guy having a great ass. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It is – however – a new thing, with Deadpool now being a big thing.

   Ryan Reynolds is ideal to play Mr. Pool, a wisecracking stud who describes himself as “pansexual.” Yes, there’s a new term to learn. Not surprisingly, the story takes places in strip clubs, amongst Johns & Jills.

   Marvel never lets down. Its endless supply of killer storyboards includes a mercenary known as the “Merc with a Mouth”, introduced as one of the New Mutants in 1991. RR is great fun in the motormouthed role.

   Marvel stories always have attitude. This one mixes the pansexual with more than a little bit of the ultra. That makes it a bad reflection on society today. It also makes it deadly fun. Debonair Deadpool delivers.

4. Acting

   Good 3.0

   Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson / Deadpool

   Ryan joins Burt in the Reynolds Hall of Fame, wherever that may be. He’s always been unfairly handsome, he’s never been funnier. Nor richer, as huge hit Deadpool is for him what Iron Man became for Downey.

   The Character per Wikipedia

   A mercenary who is subjected to an experimental regenerative mutation to cure his cancer, which gives him accelerated healing superpowers, but severely scars his body. Reynolds called this version of Deadpool more “authentic” and closer to the comic version than his X-Men Origins: Wolverine version, saying that this Deadpool “takes nothing seriously.”

   Morena Baccarin as Vanessa, his girlfriend • T. J. Miller as Weasel, his best friend •

   Ed Skrein as Francis Freeman / Ajax

   An artificially-mutated member of Weapon X, the program that creates Deadpool. Ajax is a weapons expert, with enhanced strength and an inability to feel pain. According to Tim Miller, Skrein did ‘80%’ of his own stunts, with stunt doubles only used for rigged stunts.

   Others

   • Gina Carano as Angel Dust: An artificially-mutated member of Weapon X, who possesses superhuman levels of strength, stamina and speed.
   • Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead
   • Stefan Kapičić as the voice of Colossus

   Stan Lee – Strip Club MC

5. Male Stars Great 4.0

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars OK 2.5

8. Male Costars OK 2.5

10. Film

    Great 4.0

    Yes, there is a post-credits scene. Yes it’s worth staying for. This is a Marvel film, dammit.

11. Direction Great 4.0

    Tim Miller ain’t no rookie director no more.

12. Play Great 4.0

13. Music Great 4.0

14. Visuals Great 4.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Sordid 2.6

    Rated R for a reason, Deadpool makes sport of decency. It’s gleefully indecent.

    It also introduces a lead character who’s more than bisexual, he’s pansexual. Yeah, another term to learn. Blamed on the deathly toxins that went through his mind, its affect is to turn him into a coquettish rogue.

    • Variety article Ryan Reynolds on Deadpool’s Open Sexuality: A Boyfriend ‘Would Be Great’
    • Deadpool Co-creator Weighs in on Character’s Sexuality

17. Sex Titillating 2.0

18. Violence Brutal 3.0

19. Rudeness Profane 2.8

21. Reality

    Supernatural 3.4

22. Circumstantial Surreal 2.6

23. Biological Fantasy 4.5

24. Physical Supernatural 3.1