Deadpool Blu-ray Review

Deadpool

<p>Are you wearing your brown pants&quest; Good&period;<em> Deadpool<&sol;em> is the first superhero movie since <em>The Avengers<&sol;em> to take a risk and come out swinging with hilarious jokes&comma; kickass action scenes&comma; and a guaranteed franchise&period; While the Blu-ray&comma; disappointingly&comma; isn&&num;8217&semi;t as bombastic as the movie&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s definitely worth picking up for <em>Deadpool<&sol;em> alone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Starring Ryan Reynolds as the crude&comma; loud&comma; violent&comma; hilarious&comma; but sentimental Deadpool&comma; this story is about an anti-hero who is trying to save his fiancé<b> <&sol;b>&lpar;Morena Baccarin&rpar; from being killed by the British villain&comma; Francis &lpar;oh&comma; I mean Ajax&rpar;&comma; who is brilliantly performed by Ed Skrein&period; If you have no idea what the humor is like in <em>Deadpool<&sol;em>&comma; this advertisement that spoofs healthcare product commercials perfectly portrays what this character is about&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"m5lGFQhaCAQ" title&equals;"Deadpool Blu-Ray drug commercial"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;m5lGFQhaCAQ"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;m5lGFQhaCAQ&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Deadpool Blu-Ray drug commercial"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>I love this movie&period;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>In a sea of superhero movies releasing every year&comma; <em>Deadpool<&sol;em> stands out as a balls-to-the-wall comedy and I was laughing throughout its entirety&comma; even during the opening credits&period; It makes fun of the superhero origin movie plotline as well as the standard British villain&period; Plus&comma; the special thing about this movie is that there are jokes which break the fourth wall and make sense with the character&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s not just the sense of humor that makes this movie special&period; Somehow&comma; they made this smart-mouthed anti-hero a protagonist you can care about&comma; despite how awful he is to others&period; Ryan Reynolds makes the character charming through his charismatic performance as Wade Wilson&comma; and the story is actually moving when Wilson and his fiancé find out that he has cancer&period; It turns from a superhero movie to a romantic comedy&comma; then to a drama and a horror film&comma; and then a superhero movie again &lpar;while succeeding at every genre&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;99564" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-99564" style&equals;"width&colon; 3075px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-99564" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;04002229&sol;deadpool-DF-08420&lowbar;rgb&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;Deadpool&comma; 20th Century Fox&rpar;" width&equals;"3075" height&equals;"2050" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-99564" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Deadpool<&sol;em>&comma; 20th Century Fox&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>There&&num;8217&semi;s something in this for everyone &lpar;except for kids&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s very gory and crude &&num;8211&semi; it deserves its R rating&rpar;&period; Even my Mom&comma; someone who doesn&&num;8217&semi;t typically like superhero movies&comma; actually said to me that she enjoyed it&period; And that might be due to the chemistry that Reynolds and Baccarin have during the romantic comedy segment of the film&period; Unlike so many other superhero titles&comma; such as <em>Thor<&sol;em> and <em>Man of Steel&comma;<&sol;em> you truly believe these two characters love each other&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s charming&comma; the comedy between them is top notch&comma; and makes <em>Deadpool<&sol;em> a fantastic &lpar;but unorthodox&rpar; Valentine&&num;8217&semi;s Day film&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The great thing about watching <em>Deadpool<&sol;em> on Blu-ray is that you can catch more jokes and other aspects of the dialogue because there isn&&num;8217&semi;t an audience who is laughing around you&period; The writing is so snappy that it was difficult to catch all the lines in the theater&period; TJ Miller is also hilarious as Weasel&comma; Wade Wilson&&num;8217&semi;s wisecracking best friend&period; He delivers his lines with great timing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite having a lower budget than other superhero movies&comma; <em>Deadpool&&num;8217&semi;s<&sol;em> action scenes do not disappoint&period; From the hesitant Colossus fighting Angel to Deadpool only having a few bullets to take out a squad&comma; director Tim Miller brings fluid&comma; bombastic action to the screen every single time&period; During these scenes&comma; Deadpool also makes the pop culture references and quips that the character is known for&comma; and every single one hits&period; I especially liked the joke about Regina as&comma; since I moved to Canada&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve joked about it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The practical and CG effects are also seamless&period; Colossus looks like he fits in the world&comma; the animations on Deadpool&&num;8217&semi;s face perfectly illustrate emotion&comma; and the fight scenes look heavy&comma; precise&comma; and spectacular&period; In addition&comma; the choreography of Angel&&num;8217&semi;s fight with Colossus and Deadpool vs&period; Ajax&&num;8217&semi;s goons is stunning to watch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;99558" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-99558" style&equals;"width&colon; 2048px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-99558" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;04002248&sol;deadpool-DMC&lowbar;2670&lowbar;v068&lowbar;matte&period;1045&lowbar;rgb&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Deadpool &lpar;20th Century Fox&rpar;" width&equals;"2048" height&equals;"1152" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-99558" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Deadpool<&sol;em>&comma; 20th Century Fox&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Just like Deadpool in the above picture&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m gushing about this movie&comma; but I do have a few issues&period; While Ed Skrein plays a daunting villain who you love to hate&comma; we have no idea what his organization is and what they&&num;8217&semi;re after&period; His backstory and intentions are not explained&comma; except for the knowledge that he works for an organization who turns cancer patients into mercenary slaves for their own bidding&period; It would have been great to have Deadpool interrupt the movie and explain everything about Ajax &lpar;or Francis&rpar; and the organization he works for&period; Gina Carano as Angel is barely given any lines as well and&comma; in result&comma; ends up as a forgettable character despite a hilarious fight scene between her and Colossus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This Blu-ray sadly lets the film down slightly&period; The menus&comma; despite a somewhat funny location and background on-screen&comma; are played down to a typical Blu-ray format with the same theme &lpar;despite it being a catchy song&rpar; playing in a repetitive loop&period; X Gon&&num;8217&semi; Give It To Ya can only &&num;8220&semi;give it to me&&num;8221&semi; so long before it gets old&period; In addition&comma; I was expecting Deadpool to pop in and make a remark on how long I was taking to pick an option&period; Back in my childhood&comma; there was a DVD for a TV show called <em>Dick &amp&semi; Dom in da Bungalow<&sol;em>&period; It was a children&&num;8217&semi;s TV show on BBC that was also crude but in a very childish way&period; On the DVD&comma; there were easter eggs with the presenters of the show&comma; Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood&comma; speaking to the people behind the television&period; It was quite funny&comma; and I was hoping that <em>Deadpool<&sol;em> would do something similar&colon; Something as creative as the film and the social media advertising it had&period; This was a missed opportunity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The behind-the-scenes documentary is almost as long as the movie&comma; and it is jam-packed with background information on the process&period; Ryan Reynolds discusses how the shoot affected the downtown traffic &lpar;and how he was public enemy &num;1&rpar; and Brianna Hildebrand &lpar;Negasonic Teenage Warhead&rpar; admits an embarrassing secret that was awkwardly shared with Reynolds&period; They detail how each character was written into the narrative and the special effects in the movie&period; For film fans&comma; this documentary is fantastic&comma; with appearances from the main cast&comma; Rob Liefeld&comma; the comic book creator&comma; and Tim Miller&period; However&comma; for a movie like <em>Deadpool&comma;<&sol;em> I was hoping the anti-hero himself would make a few jokes about the process in the behind-the-scenes documentary&period; It felt strangely structured&comma; but it was a great look into the behind-the-scenes process&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And the behind-the-scenes documentary is not the only information you will get from the filmmakers&period; 20th Century Fox included not just one&comma; but two commentary tracks&period; The first includes Ryan Reynolds&comma; and the screenwriters of the film&comma; Rhett Reese and Paul Wernic&period; You can tell from the commentary that these three have plenty of comedic chemistry&period; They play off each other well and you can tell that they love the character and the comics&period; Sometimes&comma; in this track&comma; they miss certain scenes I wish they talked about but&comma; overall&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s insightful as they explain the long process of making this a reality&period; Tim Miller and Rob Liefeld give interesting knowledge on the film&&num;8217&semi;s production&comma; how the character is portrayed&comma; and their opinions on the superhero genre in the film&&num;8217&semi;s other commentary track&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a fascinating listen&semi; it&&num;8217&semi;s as if I&&num;8217&semi;m listening to an in-depth podcast&period; Both commentaries are entertaining and worth watching the film again with&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You also might be happy to know that the Blu-ray includes deleted scenes&comma; the hilarious <em>Deadpool<&sol;em> social media publicity videos&sol;trailers&comma; and a gag reel &lpar;which includes lines that were improvised and had me laughing out loud&rpar;&period; There is also a gallery of concept art&comma; storyboards&comma; costumes&comma; stunt-vis&comma; and pre-vis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"ONHBaC-pfsk" title&equals;"Deadpool &vert; Trailer &lbrack;HD&rsqb; &vert; 20th Century FOX"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;ONHBaC-pfsk"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;ONHBaC-pfsk&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Deadpool &vert; Trailer &lbrack;HD&rsqb; &vert; 20th Century FOX"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Deadpool is one of the most fresh comic book movies in years&period; With a fantastic cast&comma; hilarious writing&comma; and epic action scenes&comma; Tim Miller&comma; Ryan Reynolds&comma; and the crew were able to create a film that will leave an imprint on the superhero genre for years to come&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s just a shame that the Blu-ray wasn&&num;8217&semi;t more creative with the subject material&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center"><strong><em>A Blu-ray copy of Deadpool was provided by 20th Century Fox for the purpose of this review<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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