The protagonist regularly breaks the fourth wall. We don't even get through the credits before the self-referentiality begins-It is "some douchebag's film" starring "a CGI monster," a "British villain," directed by a "tool," featuring "a pointless cameo," and penned by "the real heroes here"-and doesn't relent. The hate-written script is crafted with love. It's a meta-superhero movie in which the superhero is aware that he is in a superhero movie. But then I saw Deadpool.ĭeadpool is a Marvel movie for people who, like me, hate Marvel movies. By the time Age of Ultron rolled around, I went to the movie with a nine-year-old so he could review the thing. After all, these movies weren't for me.
In the end though, they were both Marvel. The larger franchises- The Avengers, Iron Man, Spiderman-have become as predictable as prepackaged single-wrap cheese slices. (To be fair, single-wrap cheese slices are dependable.) Guardians of the Galaxy was funny Marvel. They all have the same stories, the same character arcs, the same special effects, the same plot points.