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This year is shaping up to be even bigger, with more superhero movies lined up than in any previous year — even after Fox's rescheduling of The New Mutants, now set for a 2019 release.

Not exact matches

The lines between good guys and bad guys are refreshingly blurred, and the movie is at its funniest when it genuinely subverts the formula — as with Deadpool's ill - prepared attempt to assemble his own «X Force» superhero team.

That latter sequence is the movie's funniest, featuring a variety of cameos (including a blink - and - you'll - miss - it one from an uncredited movie star), as well as a punch line that's exactly what one would expect from a superhero team that includes a member with absolutely no superpowers.

Overloading the movie with superheroes might please fans of the comic books, but the rest of us will be chewing on our own spleens when the umpteenth brightly - coloured dude turns up to spout one line of dialogue, then drop off the map.

With so much on the line - and a full decade of movies leading up to its story - Avengers: Infinity War is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated superhero movies of all time (though we're anticipating one other 2018 film even more).

And the movie's very last line — except for the much - anticipated post-credits sequence, that is — is absolutely perfect in its bittersweet longing and quiet humanity... words I never thought I'd be able to use for a superhero movie, and that's part of what makes Captain America so special.

The trailer is quite self - aware, much like Deadpool, especially in parts when he takes a dig on the superhero movies by saying lines like «we need them young enough to carry their own franchise for 10 - 12 years».

More importantly, as Captain America: Civil War proves, they can balance a full - to - bursting line - up of superheroes and what is essentially three different movies — an extension of Winter Soldier's espionage vibe, an Avengers movie in everything but name, and a PTSD psychological drama — while still delivering something coherent, character - driven and more satisfying than the a series of things - blowed - up - real - good set pieces.

Effectively remaking his earlier 1940s - set romp The Rocketeer, Joe Johnston directs Captain America not as a brooding exploration of human frailty, as today's superhero movies tend to be, but as a ripping yarn, one which has its share of funny lines, but without any irony to undermine the Boy's Own heroics.

The movie is a superhero comedy and a 3D computer - animated film by director Chris McKay, and it is from the Lego Batman story toy line.

Where other superhero movies pore over their characters» origin stories, in Suicide Squad only Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn — who gets all of the best lines — and Will Smith's Deadshot, an assassin with heart — are fleshed out in 3D.

While Hollywood hides behind generic superhero movies that only pretend to speak to social issues, Donald Glover puts his body, soul, and voice on the line.

Backing up T'Challa are a formidable line of women: his mother Ramonda (Angela Bassett, whose steely presence would be an asset to every superhero movie); younger sister Shuri (newcomer Letitia Wright); love interest / ally Nakia (Oscar winner Lupita Nyong» o, of «12 Years a Slave»), a Wakandan spy; and the all - female security force known as the Dora Milaje, led by the fierce Okoye (Danai Gurira, best known for TV's «The Walking Dead»).

In 1998, when the other superhero movies starred known entities like Batman, New Line Cinema made a film about a leather - clad, kung - fu vampire, played by Wesley Snipes, who fought other vampires at underground raves, and barely concealed sex dungeons.

Strange will be one of a long line of superhero movies this year when it finally arrives in theaters on November 4.

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I would see another Marvel movie if I had a friend who wanted someone to go with, but I won't be lining up for The Fantastic Four, Ant - Man, and the big - screen debuts of whatever other obscure superheroes Marvel Studios has up its sleeve.

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).

Bottom line is, as perfectly as Ryan Reynolds played the Merc With A Mouth, it was going to take more than fourth wall - breaking and superhero satire to propel a comic book movie into Oscar conversation.