The movie i.e. Deadpool targeted a lucrative market as the movie focused on the two groups like comic-book cognoscenti and hormonal teenage boys. The movie on one hand includes humor content and on the other hand, it contains violence. The sense of humor in the movie at the same time is appalling and immature. The positive point of the movie is that the main character i.e. Deadpool was well-aware of his fictitious status, which is referred to USP of character. It can be ascertained by the fact that he was aware of the presence of camera and constantly communicated to the audience. In other words, broke the 4th wall to communicate with the audience in real time of his universe. He successfully pulled the audience in the action.
The movie was basically looks like a mash up of movies with the focus on strong script and mainlining originality. For instance, Deadpool took the 4th wall breaking elements from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the Silly toilet humor of the TV show Archer and from Will Ferrell movies. Moreover, the fight scenes were aligned to the films of Anchorman and love relationships i.e. romantic scenes from Star Wars’ characters Han Solo and Princess Leia-esk. One of the limitations is that the movie does not contain a balance between violence, romance and humor as the romance between Wade and Vanessa was short-lived. The main reason is that so many juvenile jokes dominated the other content of the movie. As part of humor, there were some solid jokes in the movie. However, the movie is too comedy and contained joke about masturbation and oral sex.
In addition, the features that stand out the movie include snarky one-liners and excess of cross-references to various superhero films. The method used in the movie was non-linear story telling that with the combination of main character’s (Reynolds) frenetic energy and timing of comedy kept the audience entertained, who love superficial characters and movies. The key selling points of the movie that differ it from is its R-rating are strong violence and language, sexual content and graphic nudity. It can be understood by the fact that most of the film includes adult skewing elements that lean to high level violence as every action scene in the movie was punctuates through bone-crunching violence. In turn, the movie based on superhero is not effective for the underage children like other superhero movies as superhero movies is most of the cases is the attraction for all types of audience.
Overall, the movie contained positives and negatives both, but basically the movie covers the adult audience. In addition, the character of the movie succeeded in breaking the 4th wall but jokes and violence dominated the other positive aspects of the movie. It is the indication of the room for improvement expected from future Deadpool movies. A balance in violence, humor and romance with the focus on underage children also will be the additional positive aspect of the movie to earn value (Collin).
Work Cited
Collin, Robbie. What is the impact of training programmes on. The Telegraph. 11 Feb. 2016. Web. 2 Feb. 2017. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/04/14/deadpool-review-enjoyably-obnoxious/>
