Jean-Paul’s Rating: 5/5 stars

Bottom Line: Cheekily recreates the magic of the first movie. Cable is awesome.

As is explained very early on, “Deadpool 2” is a family movie. Given, you should almost certainly not take your family to go see it given its copious swearing and mindless violence, but a family movie nonetheless. Also given, the family Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) surrounds himself with is kind of dysfunctional, but they are the people he chooses to be with and not the people he was born to. This is a very important lesson. Family is what you make of it, not who was able to insert tab A into slot B. And sure, some family will inevitably get hit by a bus or fall into a wood chipper, but that’s just life. You enjoy your chosen family for the time you have with them.

I was very skeptical going into “Deadpool 2” whether they would be able to pull off the pure magic of the first “Deadpool“. They did. Some of my friends even say that the second movie is better than the first. I disagree, but it is certainly the first’s equal. It has the same smarmy Ryan Reynolds and wonderful writers. He is joined this time by Cable (Josh Brolin), who is one of the cooler villains produced by the Marvel Universe. I am unclear about how pretty much everything Cable is actually works, but it’s pretty cool! Plus Brolin’s Cable plays a pretty effective straight man to Reynold’s Deadpool.

It is unfortunate that the movie starts with the women in refrigerators trope that is all to common in comics as well as mainstream movies, but no movie is perfect (Also, you should totally watch all of Anita Sarkeesian’s “Tropes vs. Women” series. She is awesome.). From that unfortunate and lazy plot point, the movie moves to firmer ground of mother and daughter in refrigerators in order to introduce Cable. Sheesh, people, women don’t have to die for men to do stupid or heroic or evil things. Let’s re-retcon “Deadpool 2” for the lazy writers, shall we? Ok, Deadpool, having been told by the love of his life, Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) that she wants to have a baby with him but is uncertain of his ability to be a father, swears to prove that he is a capable father by teaming up with Vanessa, who also has super powers of her own, to…the rest of the movie. Hey, this is easy! Alright, Cable! Cable, seeing how much death and destruction one human being has caused and not wanting his wife and daughter to join that ever growing death count travels back in time to kill Hitler. Done! Academy Award please! See, women don’t have to die to further a plot.

Now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, go see “Deadpool 2” because it really is fun. There are certainly “Deadpool” marathons in my future because both will definitely hold up well for repeat viewings.