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The team review the week's new releases, including Ben Stiller's belated high - fashion sequel Zoolander 2 and the subversive superhero comedy Deadpool

This year's superhero comedy Deadpool was one of the most unexpected success stories in years.

As is becoming increasingly common in our modern blockbuster era, superhero comedy Deadpool 2 got sent back for reshoots earlier this year.

This week the team check to see if Ben Stiller's dumb model is still in fashion in belated sequel Zoolander 2; find out if Ryan Reynolds can finally make a franchise work in subversive superhero comedy Deadpool; bask in the sun in Luca Guadagnino's steamy melodrama A Bigger Splash and wonder if Will Smith's Concussion deserved to be snubbed by the Academy

Not exact matches

Deadpool 2 has raised the bar for superhero comedies, and I can not wait to see it again when it opens in theaters this weekend.

Deadpool 2 is a comedy first and then a superhero movie second.

Also notable: Deadpool cracked the superhero movie awards glass ceiling of sorts with a nom for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, as well as Best Actor - Comedy or Musical nom for Ryan Reynolds.

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The Merc with the Mouth returns in Deadpool 2, the irreverent follow - up to 2016's surprise R - rated smash superhero action - comedy Deadpool that brazenly took a character that was introduced in perfunctory and forgettable fashion in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and shockingly made something electric, alive and artistically viable out of him.

But Tim Miller's Deadpool also seemed to be convincing nervous studio execs that a foul - mouthed, hyper - violent, sex - infused and fourth wall - breaking superhero comedy could be successful if the suits just stepped back and let Deadpool be Deadpool.

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This is not to say that the future of comedy lies in superhero hybrids, not to mention Deadpool is its own sensibility.

The franchise's notoriety as a rebel among superhero movies makes it all the more cooler; Deadpool evolved comedies from a commercial standpoint, for the 20th Century Fox title easily made an estimated $ 53.3 M in its first day (that's including $ 18.6 M Thursday night previews), giving it the highest opening day for an R - rated movie, beating New Line / Warner Bros.» It ($ 50.4 M).

Beginning almost literally with an Easter egg shout - out only hardcore comic book fans will get at the start of a winning «I wish I'd thought of that» opening credit sequence that will be the envy of Hollywood comedy writers and producers, 20th Century Fox's Deadpool makes quick work of announcing it's a different kind of superhero movie... in a good way.

Deadpool was far from the first superhero movie to put a particular emphasis on jokes, but unlike a Guardians Of The Galaxy or whatever, it did partly bill itself as a comedy.

This year's massive hit Deadpool — an official entry, given Deadpool's mutant power and X-Men guest appearances — was an irreverent comedy that poked holes in the fabric of the typical PG - 13 rated superhero universe.