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ExploreThis past weekend, Deadpool obliterated box office records. Its $135 million opening weekend ($150 million if you count the US Monday holiday), made it the biggest opening weekend for an R-rated movie… EVER! It’s also the biggest February movie opening and Fox’s biggest opening weekend of all-time. Yes, 20th Century Fox, those guys who made the first six Star Wars movies.
Those numbers may assure fans that there will be sequel after sequel after sequel, but none of that matters if they thought the movie was a piece of dead poo! Turns out, they didn’t. It currently holds a 95% user score on Flixster. (Even The Force Awakens only had 90%.) It scored 8.7 stars on IMBD, and 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, so critics are liking it as well.
Beyond that, the word of mouth has been fantastic, with lots of good buzz on my social media feeds. How about yours?
Makana Kirkey, one friend of TeeHunter says:
Personally I thought it was a pretty good movie, Deadpool is a character that knows he’s in a comic book (or movie) and he shows that. Some of the humor was very crude. Best standalone marvel movie since Iron Man 1.
I agree. I thought the filmmakers and everybody involved in this production got it. They knew who Deadpool was and what would make his character work on screen. They knew it had to be funny, but the movie itself couldn’t be a joke. The plot and characters were not punchlines, and for me that’s really what made this movie work.
TeeHunter Word Warrior, John Ashley says:
“Deadpool was wonderfully violent and laugh out loud funny. I’m glad they don’t make every superhero movie as crude as Deadpool, but in this situation and for this character, it was absolutely brilliant.”
Yeah, it was freaking hilarious. I cannot recall the last time I laughed so much at a movie, never mind a superhero movie. I loved the way Deadpool broke the fourth wall (aka spoke to the audience, like I’m doing with you right now). All the inside jokes and self-references were the cherry bomb on top.
According to 44-year-old Axis DeBruyn of Las Vegas, NV:
“It’s the perfect movie for a 14 year old boy.”
It certainly is a teen boy’s wet dream, but that being said, Deadpool is an adult movie. There’s lots of profanity and sex. I was surprised to see so many parents bring young children to the movie. I hope they did their homework. But before anybody complains, it’s not a kid’s movie. It was never meant to be. And it’s refreshing to have one superhero movie that doesn’t play nice.
But like the character himself, underneath all those rough edges, there was something we really cared about. We were invested in the relationship between Wade Wilson and Vanessa, and wanted to see them have a happy ending, or the Deadpool world equivalent.
Ryan Reynolds was amaze-balls. He walked the line between crazy, silly and warm and fuzzy. And I’m beginning to think Morena Baccarin can do no wrong.
So let all those broken records bring on more and more Deadpool movies. With “Maximum effort!”
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