Story
Turned out better than I thought. Lot more emotional scenes than I expected. The pacing wasn't as good as the first one, though I haven't seen the Super Duper Cut, on the fence about amount of the DP1 callbacks (the callback to the cocaine stash in Blind Al's house was a good one though), and the ending kinda dragged on. Would have liked to see Negasonic and Yukio get a bigger role but it was a crowded movie.
I dug that they expanded on the X-Verse. Introduced the DMC,
the Ice Box from the Maverick comic, inhibitor collars, Mojo World, X-Force.
The Brad Pitt cameo as Vanisher was hilarious. But kinda sucked X-Force was mostly fodder. Loved Domino. The depiction of her luck power was entertaining. Brolin nailed Cable -- liked that he still stabbed Deadpool when he hugged him and made the hug weird.
It was a delight they got Juggernaut right. Cool to hear Reynolds did the voice and that was his 'chin'. And all the Black Tom speculation before the theater came out, ha ha, funny it was just a red herring so to speak and it turned out he was just one of the Ice Box prisoners that gets killed off. Firefist was meh.
Still going to rewatch it a couple times.
References
Starting off with the
Logan comment and toy was unexpected then a James Bondian title sequence. The funniest credit, imo, was the John Wick one.
It was pretty surprising to see the amount of material referenced Raiders of the Lost Ark, Yentl, Top Gun, Terminator 2, Say Anything, Spinal Tap, Frozen, Basic Instinct, Pooh, Robo-Cop, Sharknado, Annie, Stranger Things... I'm sure there's way more.
In terms of comic book references; True Believers on Vanessa's posters, amusing they took a shot at Rob Liefeld - who can't draw feet, "M Day" on some posters in the Essex House, and Deadpool listing off Juggernaut appearances in the comics.
That was a cool surprise to see most of the Dark Phoenix cast make a cameo and Wade didn't even see it. It was also a surprise to hear Kinberg directed that part on the Phoenix set and they green screened it in. The use of Xavier's wheelchair and Cerebro was also pretty funny.
The Essex House of Mutant Rehabilitation. I guess it was the antithesis of the Xavier School and even elements of those deplorable conversion therapy camps. Though the name "Essex" naturally made me think of Mr. Sinister. I think that orderly that was shot in the head was him in disguise because it sorta looked like the red forehead diamond -- I remember that from some of the comics when he was incognito. Or just a coincidence.
It was pretty neat to see Deadpool rip into MCU movies and DC ones. Like calling Domino Black Black Widow, calling Cable's arm a Winter Soldier one, or trying the Hulk calming line on Juggernaut. The Hawkeye one was petty, imo. I think Deadpool was doing the Wakanda pose, too.
Deadpool trying to slice the bullets but not getting all of them was a funny wink to X-Men Origins: Wolverine but the gag got spoiler in the trailers.
The timeline cleaning in the end credits, while not making sense continuity-wise, but still funny to see Deadpool make amends and we technically got a Wolverine cameo, lol.
The Green Lantern scene. Boy, kinda overkill. We get it. It was a terrible movie.
