After a less-than-satisfactory portrayal in the first Wolverine movie, many fans thought a Deadpool movie was nothing but a dream.

Then in 2014 some test footage was leaked and fans got excited. Ryan Reynolds announced the film later that year, and fans went wild. The leaking of the trailer only added fuel to the fire, and soon Deadpool became one of the most anticipated movies of 2016.

But is Deadpool just too weird of a character to be put on the big screen? How will people who are not fans of the comics like the movie? And is this just another repetitive superhero film? Let’s find out.

I am a big fan of the comic books, so I know what I’m saying when I say that this movie is about as good a Deadpool movie as we’re going to get. I was jumping in my seat when the first credits started to roll, the jokes were perfectly inappropriate, and the action scenes were fantastically bloody.

Though comic Deadpool and movie Deadpool are almost two separate people, the spirit of the character is still there, meaning that in the comics Deadpool is an absolute psychopath, and in the movie he is a funny guy with a bad past. Does this make a big difference? Not really.

The budget of this movie is one-third that of your typical Avengers film, and it shows. This is not the kind of movie with sentient flying robots, or even a big blue dude hell-bent on destroying the galaxy. But what it lacks in special effects, it makes up for in fun. Deadpool, being a mix of superhero flick, romance story and revenge film, and even at one point a horror movie, lives up to the hype.

As a result of these plot shifts and low budget, someone who is not a big fan of the comics may find the movie disturbing, inappropriate, or just plain weird. But the thing is that is what a Deadpool movie should be. It isn’t meant to be an Academy Award-winning movie; it’s meant to be a funny, action-packed, almost anti-superhero film, and that is exactly what it is.

If I were unfamiliar with the character, I would give this movie a 7.5 out of 10. As a fan of the character, I would it a 9 out of 10.