Here, without the bracing shock of Deadpool 2‘s nastier elements, the script’s corny bits are a little harder to swallow. And the film’s time-outs to return to the new framing device sometimes interfere with the original version’s pacing and balance. For those people, we now have Once Upon a Deadpool - which edits out enough violence and filth to be released with a PG-13 rating.īut the snark from Savage sometimes comes at the expense of the star’s own enjoyable self-deprecation: In May’s version of the film, we were hearing Cable ( Josh Brolin) explain his time machine’s limitations when Reynolds turned to the camera and complained, “That’s just lazy writing.” Now Savage gets that line. In theory, though, there remains a small number of teenage fanboys who both a) are such rule-followers they won’t sneak a peek at an R-rated Blu-ray, and b) harbor a sinful desire to see Ryan Reynolds’ money-minting antihero do his thing. Deadpool 2 has been out on various discs and streaming platforms since late summer, available to those digital-era youths who were too upstanding to simply torrent a pirated version after David Leitch’s film was released in May. I mean, it's still Deadpool, there's stuff in it that still works because the original worked, but ultimately this take on it is kind of a failed experiment.Back when I was a kid, the solution to not being able to see R-rated movies (assuming you didn’t just sneak in, or get your parents to take you) was to wait for the video release. Sometimes there's a dramatic moment that's undercut by an insert from Fred Savage, which is funny if you've seen the original, but kind of ruins the moment. There are some great scenes that get shortened or cut out entirely that didn't need to. It could be for families I guess, but then they're going to miss the references to the original version, and then it takes away some of the elements of the original that it doesn't need to. It comments on the original take on Deadpool 2 in some funny ways, but it doesn't have the bite of Deadpool 2 which makes it a charming novelty but ultimately pointless.
However I'm not really sure who this movie's supposed to be for. I do like how Savage even comments on some of the criticisms of the movie, like the fridging of Vanessa or Cable's lack of complexity compared to the comics. As a novelty, it's notable enough, and the additional footage with Fred Savage is funny. It's still Deadpool, it's still funny, it's still good enough, but it's not different enough to be worth it.
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