"Ashes"

Last week Celine Dion released a new single, and it is a great song. That is not surprising. What is… crazy, is that it is for the movie “Deadpool 2.” You can see the makers of that film attaching an amazing, heartfelt, deeply lyrical song to their film sarcastically, which is exactly what they have done. But, as the Deadpool character mentions in the video for the song, they overdid it. It is too good.

The song is a deeply emotional prayer for God to redeem the bad in life and to turn it into something good. It is downright biblical in its imagery, quoting Isaiah. It also fits the framework of the comic book character, a man who has suffered the worst that life can offer and has turned it into..

Well, not good. That is where things fall apart. Deadpool is not a redeemable character. That is not what the comic is about. It is a sarcastic, irreverent, immature approach to everything. Even the fans of the character admit that his stories are craptastically bad. They are just an excuse to put a self-aware, self-referential, fourth-wall-breaking character on the page. He is a one joke concept. And that is, unfortunately, what the films capitalize on. A chance to make an R-rated comic book movie, not for the sake of a story that demands mature content, but just crass for the sake of crass.

This song may tempt us to think that they are going to try for a more poignant story this time around. They won’t because to do so would be to betray the immaturity that is the core of Deadpool.

But, independent of the film, the song is great.