Deadpool 2
| Release Date: May 18, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 51 Critic Reviews
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36
Mixed:
14
Negative:
1
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60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerMay 14, 2018
The fight sequences aren’t as good as director David Leitch’s previous work like Atomic Blonde and the John Wick movies, but it’s better than the standard superhero fare, with enough clever touches to keep things interesting. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMay 14, 2018
There is something ever so slightly dishonest about this character, something false about the boundaries drawn around his sadism and his rage. Deadpool 2 dabbles in ugliness and transgression, but takes no real creative risks. Read full review
60
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganMay 14, 2018
Perhaps it’s the effort of introducing so many new characters that has sucked out the spontaneity from Deadpool: still, it’s nothing that can’t be sorted for the likely next installments. Read full review
60
The GuardianSteve RoseMay 14, 2018
The movie’s other major weakness is its continued foregrounding of the white guys at the expense of the consciously inclusive cast around them. Read full review
60
The TelegraphHelen O'HaraMay 14, 2018
With its uncompromising commitment to gross-out injuries, nerdy pop culture in-jokes and inappropriate touching, Deadpool 2 was clearly made to cater to existing fans with every innuendo-filled moment (they should stay through the credits for some important story points that are very nearly thrown away). Read full review
58
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerMay 15, 2018
Deadpool 2 likes to situate itself as the subversive alternative to so many bloated X-Men films, with all their grave self-importance and bombastic action, but even more of this go-around resembles those movies than its predecessor, and if it reads to you as more than a bit hypocritical, just know you’re hardly alone. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesJen YamatoMay 15, 2018
In Deadpool 2, the manic antics fly fast, but the franchise loses its edge as wise-cracking antihero Deadpool goes dadcore, attempting to infuse standard-issue four-quadrant studio blockbuster beats into what was once a revolutionary R-rated premise. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlMay 14, 2018
Rather than face its own moral incoherence, Deadpool 2 blinks. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJake ColeMay 14, 2018
Deadpool 2 muddies the distinction between parodying comic-book-movie conventions and perfunctorily adhering to them. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMay 14, 2018
Never before have the demands of my inner man-child been so stirred, though, than while experiencing Deadpool 2, a movie that feels scribbled in pencil crayon, drenched in Jolt cola and coated with the dust of a thousand discarded bags of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. Read full review
40
SlateSam AdamsMay 17, 2018
Not too far beneath the movie’s superficial abrasiveness is a desperate desire to be loved, a puppyish determination that is both hard to resist and, eventually, difficult to endure. Read full review
40
Vanity FairK. Austin CollinsMay 15, 2018
There’s no other way to put this: Deadpool 2 is a regular, shmegular superhero movie, distinguished only by an obnoxiously unearned dose of “see what I did there?!” It’s a drag. Read full review
40
Time OutPhil de SemlyenMay 15, 2018
It’s a long movie and when its star isn’t on screen and cracking wise, the boundary-pushing shocks and endless self-references wear thin. Still, if you’re the Deadpool fanatic who recently had Reynolds’s name tattooed on his arse, you definitely won’t be grumbling. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMay 14, 2018
We’ve reached superhero saturation point, and Deadpool 2 is less a satire of that condition than a symptom of it. It has zero suspense — it’s too hip, too meta, for suspense. Read full review
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