Warning: spoilers ahead.
“Deadpool” is a movie based on the comic book of the same name, and it is just as raunchy as the series has ever been. This film is rated R for a good reason. There’s plenty of sexual jokes, explicit language and bloody violence. The fact that anyone thought they could bring their children to see this movie baffles me beyond belief, but that’s not the point I’m trying to make. I’m trying to say that “Deadpool” is an awesome movie with the great Ryan Reynolds taking the leading role and executing it very well.
The film starts with Deadpool in the middle of an intense scene where he kills some thugs and blows up some cars to get to his nemesis Ajax who gets away and gives Deadpool some time to explain how we got here. Wade Wilson was your run of the mill bad guy in the sense that he killed people for money but only ones that were worse than him. Eventually he meets a woman who is in the same business, they fall in love and everything is great until Wilson gets diagnosed with cancer. After learning about this, Wilson meets a shady man in a suit who tells him he can turn him into super hero and cure his cancer. Wilson eventually agrees, and this is where he meets Ajax as he is the one who “cures” him. From there Wilson decides to hunt Ajax down for what he did to him.
One of my favorite parts of this film is how Deadpool breaks the fourth wall on multiple occasions and looks directly at the camera to talk to the audience. This is done in order to pay homage to the original comic book joke that Deadpool has “comic awareness” so it is only fitting that he has “movie awareness” too. By talking straight to the audience too, Deadpool can make the film more personal and can slip in some jokes that otherwise wouldn’t be possible if he couldn’t talk directly to us.
Another great thing about this movie is the fact that it is rated R. Yes, I know a lot of kids wanted to see this movie because they thought it was a superhero film, but it most certainly is not. Deadpool himself tells us multiple times that he is not a superhero, so he has no problem being horribly explicit and raunchy. This is hopefully the first of many R rated comic book films to come out because most comic books are pretty explicit and not made for children. Yes some are but some most definitely are not and Deadpool is a perfect example of that. If this movie had been rated PG-13, it would have been garbage. It wouldn’t have lived up to the hilariously vulgar series it was inspired by and a lot of people would have been let down.
So I hope in the near future that Marvel and DC will start to make their movies an appropriate rating based on the source material they derive each film from. The Avengers is probably fine staying at PG-13, but you better believe I’m waiting for an R-rated Batman film to hit the big screen some day.
