BY VICTORIA WILKINSON
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Deadpool, the Marvel film which has been highly anticipated by many, came out Feb. 12. While some people found it to be obnoxious and juvenile, the movie was humorous with a somewhat intriguing plot line, depending on your sense of humor.

A lot of the jokes and references made throughout the film were ill-humored and childish, but some of them were just so ill-humored and childish that they were funny.

You ever laugh super hard at a really corny joke? It’s like that. While most jokes were well delivered, some of them would have been funnier had the execution of the joke been more appropriate.

Teenage comic book fans would appreciate the film primarily because of all the action and fighting and gore.

However, older comic book fans are able to see past that and evaluate Deadpool for his true character: egotistical, annoying and irreverent.

The movie is supposed to be an X-Men movie, but it really does no justice to the original X-Men. The producers tried to give it the same feel that X-Men movies carry out, but drastically failed.

Many X-Men fans had high expectations for Deadpool and were most likely pretty disappointed with the outcome.

It isn’t that the movie was bad.

The movie itself was pretty funny with a decent plotline, but the trailers and teasers for the movie set it out to be much better than the reality.

It got my hopes up just to throw them right back down to the ground.

The budget for the movie was lower than typical superhero movies, and because of this, the graphics and action shots were not as high quality as other Marvel films. The majority of all action was in the beginning of the movie so it left nothing to look forward to for the rest of the duration.

In the original comic book, Deadpool broke the “fourth wall,” which is diverging from the plot at hand and messing with the terms of his reality. The movie does succeed in delivering this making it clear that Deadpool knows more than just his reality but it does make the watcher wonder, how much does Deadpool really know?

While I was watching I found myself wondering if Deadpool knew he was in a movie? Who he was played by? And if he was really just playing along with this plot of the movie?

In traditional superhero movies the protagonist is very much in the film and only aware of the reality he is in in the movie, not knowing it is in fact a movie. However, this wasn’t a superhero movie really. Deadpool is an antihero after all and I guess they decided to stray from the norm of Marvel movies because of this reasoning.

What made this movie tolerable was the originality of the plot and of the character of Deadpool.

Usually superhero movies are about doing good and the main characters are upstanding citizens who only kill when they have to. On the other hand, Deadpool is an antihero and always looking for his next kill, he is somewhat a piece of garbage with no direction in his life. He tries to make it very clear in the movie, stating multiple times that the one thing he is not is a hero.

Overall, the movie was okay and pretty funny but I cannot say I would enjoy watching it again because it really just irritated me.