Deadpool [4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray] [2016] [NTSC]

A movie adaptation of a comic from Marvel. Had a few of those in the past few years. But this is a rather different movie to all the others. It comes from Fox studios, rather than Marvel studios. The former do the X Men films. The latter do almost all the others. So this does mention and tie in with the former. But none of Captain Americas and Avengers and the like. Ryan Reynolds plays Wade Wilson. AKA Deadpool. Who he also played in X Men Origins Wolverine. Let's just say this is a fresh take on things. So disregard that one. Wade is a motormouth. Has a very strong sense of humour. And runs around in a red suit with swords gutting and shooting bad guys. How did all this come to be? This is structured totally differently to the usual superhero films in that it's not entirely linear. It starts with an action sequence, and jumps back and forth between that and what happens after it. The flashbacks filling in how we got to this point. There's a heck of a lot of violence along the way. But it's knowingly over the top, in the style that encourages you not take it seriously. And the whole film doesn't so much break the fourth wall as damage it with a sledgehammer beyond repair. So this is very black comedy. But it's very funny comedy if you're in the right mood, and Ryan Reynolds get the character and the humour absolutely spot on. Added to which, it gives one of the X men more to do than they've ever managed before on screen. And it's a nice love story as well. Just not necessarily solely a chick flick. And definitely not a date movie. Ultimately the story and plot are pretty simple, but there's so much to laugh at in here that it will stand up to many repeated viewings, simply because you're bound to find funny moments that have slipped your mind. A perfect adaptation of a fun character. And a hugely entertaining film with it. Do keep watching to the very end if you hope to see a preview of Deadpool Two. Although the dvd box just says that the subtitles and Language options are English only, if you check the disc you will find they are: Although the box just says english for both, on the disc it's: Languages: English Russian Lithuanian Subtitles: English Danish Finnish Norwegian Russian Swedish Estonian Lavian Lithuanian The disc goes straight to the main menu when loaded. DVD extras are: Sneak peek. A trailer for the film X-Men Apocalypse. Gag reel: five minutes worth of outtakes. Gag reels are usually people forgetting dialogue and being deliberately silly, but these are genuine and very funny outtakes. Deadpool's fun sack. Two sections to this. Videos and stills. The latter contains some posters for the film. The former has nineteen different trailers and other bits of promo material for the film. None are longer than a couple of minutes. They can be watched individually or in a row. There is some repetition as some are versions of the same trailer but with naughty words included second time around. But they are all great fun and well worth a watch.

Great film

I'd been waiting patiently for this film to be delivered since I watched it at the cinema. When I got home I went straight onto Amazon and preordered it along with another film. I marked my calendar and felt like a little kid overdosing on blackjacks and cola bottles on the run up to Christmas Day the closer it got towards release date. So imagine my annoyance when release day arrived and no dvd came through my letterbox! My doormat was empty and somewhat forlorn. I did however receive an apology email informing me that the delivery was delayed due to problems with the transit and would be with me ASAP. I wasn't a happy bunny because this is the second parcel this year to have problems (last one magically got lost in transit). But I knew that a broken down van couldn't be helped by me being annoyed so I hoped it would arrive on the next day (Tuesday). It eventually arrived on Tuesday afternoon but I couldn't watch it due to working until Wednesday afternoon. ** shakes fist menacingly at sky mumbling "curse you work, you've crushed my dreams!" ** It's a great film with the perfect actor for the role. If you haven't seen it or you're a hipster who doesn't want to watch it because others like it: quit being a sourpuss because you are missing out big time. It's hilarious and has great action. You NEED to see it! And no, before you react with "but she's probably a marvel fangirl"....I'm NOT. I don't watch many films let alone only marvel ones. I just know a good film when I see one. This has restored a bit of my faith in the movie industry. One of the best comedy/action films I've seen in the past twenty years. JUST WATCH IT ALREADY!!!!

Ryan Reynolds clearly loves his comic books, great in Green Lantern and now foul mouthed merc Deadpool. I remember when he first appeared as a vampire slayer in Blade III and was great with his pithy one-liners to Parker Posey and the Wrestling Goliath. Similiarly here he effortlessly quips and sautes his way through a slew of bad boys and several mutants. His origin is decribed in gory torturesque detail and is not for the squeamish, his latent mutanticity is activated through various tortures by the sadistic nemesis ... Francis, aka codename Ajax ... off a bar of soap. So the film's irreverence is hatched. The plot is a bit bare, just a revenge skein to kill his way to the truth! ... actually Francis, whome he hopes can give him a new pretty face with which to woo back his gorgeous girlfriend. The film is full of wise cracks which Ryan Reynolds excels at, for instance saying to his partner, he just had a terrible dream he was being pursued by Liam Neeson in another Taken movie as he has lost his daughter again, at which point you have to wonder maybe he is just a bad parent? Stan Lee has his cameo as a sleezy comper in a strip joint. My main gripe was the baddy ... Francis was boring, his weak quip was monotonously 'what's my name?' all the time. Now Arnold Vosloo was fantastic as Jean Claude Van Damm the Man's nemesis in Hard Target with the excellent one-liner 'You didn't mean to hurt my feelings' just before he blew somebody away. Now he had charisma oozing out of all his oleaginous pores, the perfect foil to the Van Damm's ice cool hero. Gina Carano was similiarly luck-lustre, just standing still a lot, laconically chewing the butt end of a match stick, wtf? Why not chomping on a Huge Phat Cuban Cigar, aka Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger in Predator. Lets face it she is so chunky and muscular she could be an Arnie stand-in ... 'Hey Gina Get Yo Ass to Mars!' 'Gina Have You Eaten My Taco?' 'Gina Your Muscles Are Bulging!' etc. I hope there is a Deadpool II but with a better baddy, more fleshed out and cewl, and a more layered plot than the one dimensional form of:- mad scientist creates super soldier -> there are horrible side effects -> said soldier is not a happy bunny -> said soldier loses his girlfriend -> redneck rampage (great game) -> epic fight between goody and baddy -> goody gets his girlfriend back -> girlfriend does The Beauty and The Beast thang. everyone lives happily ever after to the sequel This and Ant Man are welcome fare to the formulaic tedium of The Avengers, how can you possibly screw-up Ultron for goodness sake, argh! May Ryan Reynolds live a long life starring in more Cewl Movies. Thank you Sir!

Deadpool is the hilarious 2016 superhero film starring Ryan Reynolds as the titular anti-hero. It is clearly an adult film with several sex scenes and plenty of jokes that will go over the heads of the younger audience it isn't intended for. The plot is somewhat secondary to the excellent characterisation and the unusually realistic romance. The DVD version has no real extras to speak of, just a gag reel which includes some Ryan Reynolds riffing on set and some awesome ad libs by TJ Miller. The other extra is basically a set of trailers which aren't as funny as the film itself. The film takes a while to get going and in truth it does not start out particularly funny. The jokes warm up through the film as many of them are referential or in-jokes which play on the expectations of a Marvel film. The film starts almost literally with a bang and there are a few action sequences to follow. These are generally among the least interesting parts of Deadpool. He's an intriguing combatant but it is not particularly tight choreography. What works best during the action sequences is Deadpool mouthing off to his opponents. Deadpool casually insults those around him and mocks people amusingly. He is not correct in any way and that makes it a not-too-guilty pleasure. Somehow Reynolds imbues Deadpool with such charm that he's never really offensive, just funny. The scenes with barman friend Weasel played by TJ Miller are among the best. The two banter like real people. Weasel even bets his good friend will get killed. The banter feels realistic and is sharp-witted. Weasel's reaction to Deadpool's physical transformation is the kind of honesty only a good friend would offer but it is still hilarious. Perhaps the best of Deadpool's relationships though is with his love interest Vanessa. Played by the beautiful Morena Baccarin she has a proper adult relationship with the hero. Unlike too many Hollywood romances there is a vibrancy to the relationship and it is fairly explicitly adult. The pair share a number of sex scenes in different locations. A montage sequence featuring the pair really speaks to a physicality in their relationship that Hollywood usually glosses over. The realism of the pairing comes from Vanessa's introduction "your crazy matches my crazy". It makes sense that the two are together. Of course it helps that both Baccarin and Reynolds are attractive people but there's a realism beyond the good looking superficial appearance. As this is the Deadpool show, the main villain does not have so much to work with. Ed Skrein plays the role of Ajax pretty much straight. There isn't any of the cheeky charm Skrein is capable of, presumably because the humour is designed to be through Deadpool's wit rather than his viillain. A bit of a missed opportunity really as it could have been fun to see Reynolds and Skrein trading barbs. Skrein's accent of course makes him a natural bad guy but he does seem to be having a bit of fun with the malice of his character's torment as Deadpool becomes his super self. A couple of minor Marvel characters make an appearance but they basically seem to exist for Deadpool to make jokes. The line about turning up at the Professor X's school and only ever seeing the two of them is a funny way of pointing out the difference in concept between Deadpool and other X-Men productions. The visualisation of Colossus is much more akin to the original comic concept and the voice is reminiscent of appearances in the animated series. The disapproval Colossus has for Deadpool's lifestyle is an easy target for banter. The appearance of the ridiculously-named Negasonic Teenage Warhead is probably just there for the name but the sullen teenager routine opens itself up to excellent lines from Deadpool. The costume design and colouring is good enough for this kind of film but clearly not the same as a bigger budget adventure. Reynolds looks a bit silly in the Deadpool suit but that's part of the charm. The others are not particularly interesting to look at except Vanessa who is beautifully attired. The film's music is a bit of an odd choice. The DVD theme song is X Gon' Give It to Ya which is neither new enough to be cool nor old enough to be retro. A perfectly fine song but it doesn't seem to suit Deadpool at all. Musically this is not a particularly memorable film. Visually Deadpool is fine, making use of frequent freeze-frame techniques during action to showcase Deadpool's abilities while bullets are flying around. It slows the action down quite often which means it loses some intensity but it is fun to see Deadpool's antics and that's what the film is ultimately about. Deadpool at its heart is a funny and light-hearted take on a classic comic book character. It breaks the fourth wall knowingly, it uses in-jokes and banter between its characters to fire off barbs and make each scene worth smiling at or laughing with. There are not too many films like this one.

This was my 1st pre-order and wasn't entirely sure how things worked, but I was always able to check it's progress along the way, which was very placating. Went from pre-order to estimated delivery date, which again I was always able to keep an eye on. I know this may sound like we should all know this is the procedure, but we all have a 1st time at anything new, so in case you haven't experienced pre-order, don't worry it's all pretty self explanatory. So it was delivered by the date I was given and well packed. As for the film, I adored it at the cinema and laughed just as much watching this Blu Ray. There are plenty of professional reviews online if you want a proper review but if you're a comic book hero film lover and like some comedy with this genre, then this should work for you. I will add that it's defintely aimed at adults with it's violent fight scenes, but for me they just enhanced the movie. It also has plenty of innuendo in the dialogue, so I wouldn't be letting a certain 5 year old nephew who loves his X men movies and games watch this just yet. It also has plenty of fast paced comic book dialogue which those of you who don't like the genre or haven't seen many of the Marvel franchise films, may not understand as there are many references made to other films, but all in all it's an action movie with a fun element in a comic book genre. I'd give the film 5 stars in its own right and the pre-order, packing and generally all the logistical side of things was 5 star too.

Brilliant. Once in a while you have the perfect actor to play the perfect character. Ryan Reynolds was the perfect choice to play Deadpool the Merc with a mouth. This is a movie done right. This is really Ryan/Deadpool unfiltered. Deadpool is notorious for his "Fourth wall breaks", (this is a pause where Deadpool talks straight to the audience, usually with an in joke), and here nobody is safe he will rip anyone from David Beckham to Ryan Reynolds himself to Fox studios. If you are a Deadpool fan this movie more than did him justice, if you were not a Deadpool fan you will be after watching this. Ignore and forget about the "Deadpool cameo" in the wolverine origins movie, this is not the weirdo freak with his mouth sawn up, this is a machine gun mouth merc throwing out insults even as he "lovingly dismembers" villains for his revenge. This is a raunchy, motorised foul mouthed and action packed anti-hero movie. With most characters this would be off putting or just wrong but in Deadpools case this is just who the character is and they kept the movie version true to the comic book core completely. Even better actually because when he swears in the comics it looks like this "Mother&%&^%$". This is why he took so long for his the break the glass ceiling with casual comic book fans, as in mainstream comics he is too restricted and comes across as silly/insane then rough, tough, foul mouth he really is. This is an adult movie and it should be. When this movie was announced me and the comic book community were hi fiver each other, majority of people where probably going who? I said it before this is role Ryan was meant to play like Robert Downey Jr was to Ironman. I actually find it hard to see where Ryan's personality stops and the Deadpool character begins. On a side note even though it is full face mask it is surprisingly expressive. I even loved all the gag reels and promos in the extra of Deadpool in character doing all sorts. This is the best Marvel movie to come out of Fox, if you disappointed at what has become of the X-men and disgusted with what they did to the FF then watch this as redemption, or just watch it is great. Great movie for anyone over 15!!!

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