Deadpool 2 (2018)

  Again, I have been waiting to post this because I didn't want any association with spoilers but now everyone I know who was going to see it has seen it so it's okay.  The synopsis is going to be a little light because there is a MAJOR spoiler before the opening credits.

Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is struggling with his continued existence.  In an effort to bring him out of his depression, Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) makes him an X-Men trainee.  On his first official outing, Wade attempts to calm down a young boy named Russell (Julian Dennison) manifesting pyrokinesis outside of a home for "rehabilitating" mutant children.  Russell has been abused by the system in place and Wade understands, but his own violence leads to his and Russell's being detained and put in the Freezer, a jail for mutants.  There, a warrior from the future named Cable (Josh Brolin) arrives to kill Russell and prevent him from becoming a monster in Cable's timeline.  Wade believes that Russell just needs another chance and puts together a team of mutants called the X-Force to help him stop Cable and save Russell before it's too late.

The original Deadpool was so good and expectations were so high for this sequel that I was actually really nervous about seeing it.  But I also couldn't NOT see it, you know?  Especially after the bonkers marketing campaign.  And I have to tell you, this is one of the rarest of rare creatures:  a sequel that avoids the sophomore slump.  Deadpool 2 is just as funny and just as fucked up as the original, but it also adds more character development and emotional involvement.  It's got a real heart beating under the blood and bullet holes.  If you have not seen it, run.  Do not walk.  Go now.

In my review for the original, I said it made up for every misstep of Reynolds' career except X-Men: Origins, but the mid-credit sequence of the sequel is so good, I am even willing to let that go.  Reynolds can once again do no wrong.  I'll even see him in the goddamn Pikachu movie with Jaden Smith.