Deadpool is a Superhero movie with a big difference. It’s lewd, crude, and socially unacceptable. It is also brilliant and worth the price of admission.

Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is a former special forces operative, who is now a mercenary. He meets and falls in love with Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). Before they can get married, Wade is diagnosed with stage IV cancer. Wade is approached by a mysterious man, who offers a cure. The cure is actually an excuse to experiment on him, basically trying to trigger any mutant genes he may possess. Ajax (Ed Skrein) leads this project, and is sadistic. The treatment becomes a torture, and it leaves Wade disfigured and slightly mentally unstable.  Ajax reveals that he intends to sell any “successful” mutants off as slaves to the highest bidder. Wade resists, and manages to destroy the lab. He survives, because his main mutant power is the ability to regenerate and heal any injuries he sustains. Now free, he sets off to destroy everything Ajax has built. The plot is, for the most part, irrelevant.

Much of the film is told in flashback. Much of the film also includes narration by Deadpool himself. He breaks the fourth wall often. He pokes fun at the X-Men and other superheroes, even Green Lantern, a role Ryan Reynolds played. Much like Honey Badger, Deadpool don’t care. Even the opening credits have a number of jokes included. There was one confusing aspect of the film that I didn’t properly understand until I visited IMDB – his best friend Weasel is played by TJ Miller, who looks and acts like Ryan Reynolds’ Wade, so much so that I thought it was him.

Make no mistake, Deadpool is for adults. It’s graphically violent, and the humor is not for the light-hearted.

There’s a post-credits sequence that’s very reminiscent of another movie, and well worth the wait.