Deadpool breaks box office records for an R rated movie

Jordyn Long, Reporter

The new and highly anticipated movie, Deadpool, released on Valentine’s Day, has broken box office records of all kinds.

  • Biggest opening of an R rated movie
  • Biggest 20th Century Fox opening ever
  • Biggest February opening of a movie ever

Nobody was more excited than Ryan Reynolds for this movie, who has been trying to play the title character for about 10 years. This was his biggest opening weekend for a movie he has made yet, and it is very much deserved, because I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Reynolds played the super-hero perfectly (I mean, he had a decade to prepare) and was very true to the comic book Deadpool that so many have known and loved.

Deadpool is already known as the bloodiest superhero movie out, and after seeing the movie, that statement is very true.

The humor is very crude, though Deadpool’s jokes make almost every moment of the movie lighter.

He also continuously breaks the fourth wall (The thin line that exists between a story and reality, according to the Urban Dictionary. When a character in a story tells the reader in some way that they know that they are a character in a story, that is called ‘breaking the fourth wall’).  The effect is it made the hero seem both more authentic as a character and more in line with the comic book character, who breaks the fourth wall in almost every issue.

I thoroughly enjoyed Deadpool. The humor was crude and inappropriate but very enjoyable, and I highly recommend it, though I do recommend parents leave the kids at home.

Kids, go see it without your parents.