ODEON Magazine Issue 104 - May/June 2018 | Page 19

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 odeon.co.uk 19