While I'm sure there isn't a ton lost in translation because of this, I still expected some kind of super quick summary or callback to the first film for those of us who had decided to pass on it for. There's never a recap of any events from the first film, and you just kind of have to piece together things about the characters from information you're given along the way via Deadpool 2. And while Savage admits he did not, Once Upon a Deadpool continues to operate as if the viewer did.
Just like in the film version of The Princess Bride, things cut back and forth between Savage with Deadpool and the story of Deadpool 2-and it works! However, it seems everyone involved with the film-including the titular character-truly believes "everyone" saw the first Deadpool film from 2016. While the two bicker about Savage being held hostage, the "Merc with a Mouth" opens a storybook and proceeds to tell the story of Deadpool 2 in a more sanitized fashion. This re-cut opens with Deadpool having kidnapped actor/director Fred Savage (playing himself) and tied him (sans pants) to a bed in a room reconstructed, with almost perfect attention to detail, to look identical to his bedroom in 1987's The Princess Bride. Dubbed Once Upon a Deadpool, this re-cut of Deadpool 2 repackages Deadpool 2 for a wider audience, but doesn't revisit the first film at all. Currently, the best options for such editing are services ClearPlay and VidAngel (with the latter being sadly limited by movie houses that have legally blocked them from offering filters for their movies), but I haven't seen either of the Deadpool offerings. If you're at all familiar with my reviews and my personal approach to watching movies, you'll know I don't typically watch R-rated films unless they've been toned down, whether by a filtering service or from some other editing process. In a truly unusual move, Fox has not only re-released the R-rated superhero pseudo-spoof action comedy Deadpool 2 to theaters, but they've edited the crass and ultra-violent film down to pass as PG-13-just in time for the Christmas season. Movie Reviews (Main) > Movie Reviews (Main).Indie Reviews (Main) > Indie Reviews (Main).
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