'Deadpool 2' First Screening Reactions Are Out

The first reactions to Deadpool 2 are out and, for the most part, it looks like this one will carry on the ultra-violent, ultra-sexy legacy of the first...

...but will it carry on the surprising seal of critics' approval?

Well...mostly, yeah.

The film hits next week, but a handful of critics saw it tonight, and Twitter is already alight with reactions to the movie. For the most part, the positive reviews are jubilant and the negative ones are just kind of "eh," so it seems likely that the same people who loved the first one will turn out again.

Hell, even the most negative review we saw concedes that the film will likely make $1 billion.

Deadpool was an odd animal: long in development hell, the X-Men spinoff featured few marketable characters, carried an R-rating, and was made at a third the budget of most major superhero films. It came out to widespread fan and critical acclaim and made more money than anybody could ever have guessed.

Coming in the middle of the summer movie season, sandwiched between the most-anticipated superhero movie of all time and a Star Wars prequel, this film had none of the "stealth" of the first, and so fans have wondered whether it could recapture the magic.

Here's a little bit more of what the first people to see it have to say...!

Deadpool 2 opens in theaters on May 18th.