Deadpool comes out Friday, and the review embargo has been lifted. Overall critics were pleased with the Merc’s first solo big-screen adventure, though there were a few that weren’t so impressed. It currently has an 84% Rotten Tomatoes rating from 43 calculated reviews.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy was enamored with the film’s constant drum of raunchy humor. “The script has the feel of something gone over again and again and yet again to double the number of jokes each time. The machine-gun approach doesn’t always hit, but it does enough so that, in the end, the number of laughs is pretty high.”
The AV Club’s A.A. Dowd liked the film, but he echoed the sentiment of a lot of critics when he added the caveat that despite the loud meta humor and goofy antics, the foundation was typical for a superhero movie — another origin story. “The problem with the film isn’t that it’s an orgy of glib cartoon carnage. The problem is that all of that is a disguise: Just as Deadpool himself wears a mask to hide his hideous features, Deadpool conceals a highly conventional origin story under a lot of winking self-awareness.”
Despite this, Justin Chang of Variety LOVED it: “As a vehicle for the impudent comic stylings of Ryan Reynolds, this cheerfully demented origin story is many, many cuts above “Green Lantern,” and as a sly demolition job on the superhero movie, it sure as hell beats “Kick-Ass.”
Scott Meldenson of Forbes was NOT impressed, snarking “I found myself both enjoying the character and certain gags while wishing I could skip ahead 2-3 years to see the presumably superior sequel.”
Ready or not, here he comes: Deadpool launches in US theaters February 12.
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