I finally picked up Deadpool on DVD and watched it (having missed seeing it in cinemas ). I liked it as it really captures the character well, and a lot of meta stuff was funny.

...but...

I didn't find myself physically laughing out loud at any point of the movie. It made me smile and think, "I see what you did there," a lot. Although the line that Deadpool makes about the studio not being able to afford any more X-Men in the film made me go, "Heh." That was as close as I got to actually laughing aloud while watching this movie. I think that the Honest Trailer describes this film accurately in that the humour seems to be pitched at a 17 year old level and feels like a really long and violent episode of Family Guy. And I guess that this is pretty much what the Deadpool character is - no more, no less.

This isn't meant to be a criticism against the movie per se. Deadpool isn't meant to deliver high brow levels of wit - as I understand it, he's just not that kind of character, so it's not meant to be that kind of movie. So in terms of what Deadpool is supposed to be, I think that the movie is excellent. It is a fantastic Deadpool film that is very true to its original source material. If only the live action Transformers movies could be made as well (I did like how Deadpool even took a jab at Michael Bay)...

I think that I would've enjoyed this movie more if I'd seen in with a cinema audience, because other people's laughs might've prompted me to laugh along with them. But when I watched it by myself there wasn't anything in the film that made me want to laugh aloud.

Ah well... that's what Monty Python's for.