Saw Deadpools 1 & 2 - again both very similar films and I watched them back-to-back so they're indistinguishable to me now. They were films in the Marvel canon, involving mutants in general and following the motor-mouthed titular character in specific as he pops off one-liners, 4th wall breakers, and 80s pop culture references.
I enjoyed the movies more or less but I thought his backstory was unintentionally hilarious. Pre-superhero, he's a mercenary who meets-cute (really more meets-quips) this girl and they become fast lovers, having lots of raunchy sex (how subversive!) he falls ill and the only way to cure himself is by be-mutant-ing himself. This messes up his skin and even though he's better now, he can't return to his girlfriend because he's too ugly. That's actually the in-universe reason given. Like, come on man, isn't your connection supposed to be more than skin deep? Don't you still have the quips? It's like Lex Luthor getting mad at superman because he made him bald. Grow up, you children!
Anyway, that bit of silliness aside, the film is a lot of dumb fun. The references go thick and fast and I felt very clever indeed for catching the ones I did (and sulky about the ones I missed.) The villain is annoyingly humor-less, but I guess the stakes have to come from somewhere, right? There's a lot of acute tragedy that's quickly breezed by which adds a sublayer of pathos to things. You get the sense that the motor-mouth is to prevent reality from sinking in and that's kind of poignant.
But a great movie this is not. Like the other Marvel films, it's a well-made, entertaining, somewhat anonymous film. A good way to spend 4 hours, but I honestly can't remember a lot of specifics about the film a few months later. The A-team he assembles in the second movie is great though.
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