Deadpool, the film has waived
a more descriptive title (think
X-Men: Days of Future Past) in
favour of the simple Deadpool
2. Trust us when we say that
it’s the only thing about this
movie that’s understated.
Take the bonkers marketing
campaign, for example, which
began last November with
the release of a teaser trailer.
Entitled Gettin’ Wet on Wet
with Deadpool 2, this bizarre
mini-film saw our quippy hero
spoofing Bob Ross from the
1980s TV series The Joy of
Painting, complete with white
shirt and curly wig. After the
briefest of clips from the movie
itself, it ended with Deadpool
declaring: “And remember,
hugs not drugs!” Um, what?
The official plot synopsis for
the film was just as bizarre.
Unveiled day and date with
the first trailer, it promised
an adventure in which our
mercenary hero “struggles to
fulfil his dream of becoming
Mayberry’s hottest bartender”
while battling “ninjas” and
“sexually aggressive canines”.
Clearly written with
someone’s tongue firmly in
their cheek, we assumed at the
time that it was mostly baloney,
and so it proved when the final
trailer dropped in late March.
This info-packed snippet
not only gave us an intriguing
summation of the sequel’s
‘actual’ plot – Josh Brolin’s
time-hopping, cyber soldier
Cable wants to kill a mutant
kid – it also introduced us to
X-Force, a sweary strike team
fronted by Deadpool but also
featuring Zazie Beetz’s Domino
and Terry Crews’ Bedlam.
Add decapitation, man buns
and a bigger role for Dopinder
to the mix and this looks to
be a heck of a second coming.
“Deadpool 2. Falling
somewhere between The
Godfather 2 and Dirty
Dancing: Havana Nights,”
teased Reynolds recently
on Twitter. We can’t wait!
See Deadpool 2 from 15 May
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