Ryan Reynolds wasn’t lying when he said that Deadpool 2 was “bolder and nuttier” than the first. But it is also sassier, more violent and more irreverent. It has more heart too and more feels, and it seriously is a movie about family... go watch it if you don’t believe either me or the Merc With The Mouth himself. In short, Deadpool 2 is a f***ing good time (what, you thought a Deadpool movie review was going to be PG-rated?), even though some of the moments lose their impact along with the novelty factor! Here are some moments that made me go back to the theatre for a second watch on Sunday.

The of-course-he-went-there moments

What did you think the movie started with? Of course, Wolverine (his figurine impaled on a tree) and how he copied Deadpool and went the R-rated way with Logan. But Wolvie wouldn’t be allowed to get away with one-upping Deadpool by dying in his film. “F*** Wolverine! First he rides my coattails with the R-rating, then the motherf***** ups the ante by dying! What a d**k,” and then he blows himself up. And he does better than die once. He dies many, many times.

Of course he talks about how much money the first Deadpool movie made and where it stands compared to the highest-grossing R-rated movie, The Passion of the Christ. 

We were waiting for the X-Men digs and they came in aplenty — from Deadpool complaining about how the studio still doesn’t throw them an X-Men, even “pigeon-wings” (there is a surprise there) while recuperating in the X-Men house, to him moving around in the wheelchair and wreaking havoc, to him pretending to use Cerebro.

The ha-ha moments

The opening credits, of course, which went full 007, with Deadpool posing both as Bond and as Bond girls. Then there were the expected credits — something that went like... starring someone who doesn’t want to share the spotlight with anyone else; and, my favourite, “directed by one of the guys who killed John Wick’s dog”. 

Every single moment with Colossus. The highlights being when DP hugs him and touches him inappropriately, when he goes the Say Anything way and woos Colossus back with music, when he is rescued by Colossus and propositions him crudely.

Peter’s application to X-Force. Where he just appears because he saw the ad and it looked interesting. Of course he is hired.

DP dubs his new team the X-Force, which is “forward-thinking and gender neutral”; and when Domino (a fantastic Zazie Beets) complains, DP asks Peter to pipe down, because he is so gender neutral he can’t tell the difference!

Deadpool is dying; no, seriously he is dying, but he just won’t let you get emotional because “dying is so hard” and he keeps not being able to breathe his last. Even when he sees the bright light, it is just the sun shining in his eye.

He does the superhero landing, and hurts his knee. 

Juggernaut rips him in half and he can’t help but keep fanboying over him.

Deadpool is growing new limbs; this time it is his legs and the sequence that follows involving everyone from Blind Al to Domino, Weasel, Dopinder and Cable is just howlarious!

The Oh-no-he-didn’t moments

His dig at Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, when he tells Vanessa: “I was fighting a caped badass, but then we discovered his mom is named Martha, too.”

His dig at the DC Universe in general when he tells Cable he is “so dark, are you sure you are not from the DC Universe?”

When Cable asks him who he is, he replies: “I’m Batman.”

He calls Cable “an old f*** with a Winter Soldier arm”.

He tells Cable: “Shut up Thanos.” 

While fighting Juggernaut, he uses the “hey big guy, the sun is getting real low” dialogue from Avengers: Age of Ultron, but fails to have an effect.

The Oh-shit moments

When almost all the members of the X-Force team die grisly deaths, which includes an excellent cameo by an A-list actor.

When a stray bullet hits Vanessa and she dies in slo-mo. Why did Morena Baccarin have to die?! So unfair. 

The aww moments

Vanessa presenting Deadpool with her IUD and saying that the baby-making factory was open.

Deadpool reeling from grief after Vanessa’s death.

Peter applying sunscreen before jumping off a helicopter to intercept a convoy because “melanoma kills more people”. There is a reason why the Rob Delaney character is a cult favourite already. 

The OH-WOW moments

Domino’s “luck” superpower makes for a fantastic — and contrary to what Deadpool says — very cinematic sequence as she tries to get to the convoy carrying the young kid Russell that Deadpool wants to save and Cable wants to kill.

In the same sequence, Deadpool stabs a katana through the foot of a guy driving one of the convoy cars and is forced to bend over and look between his legs to make sure the car is heading in the right direction. Head rush!

The Deadpool-Cable-Domino vs Juggernaut fight.

The “big CGI fight scene” between Colossus and Juggernaut.

The we-laughed-so-hard-we-peed-in-our-pants moment

The mid-credits screen where Deadpool uses a time machine to “clear up the timeline”. We won’t tell you more, but boy did we laugh and laugh and laugh.

What was your favourite moment from Deadpool 2? Tell t2@abp.in