Deadpool 2 (2018) poster
2018 · action · superhero · comedy

Deadpool 2

Directed by David Leitch2h 0m2018
ElsewhereIMDb7.6743kRT83%Metacritic66TMDB7.519k
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • funny
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, extreme action / superhero, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.

Our read · Deadpool 2 (2018) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · superhero · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want filthy-mouthed meta superhero violence and unlikely found family.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexgraphic violencedrug usecringe humiliationgoresuicide theme

Skip it tonightYou can't stand nonstop swearing, gore or dark suicide gags.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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