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Marvel Studios' Deadpool & Wolverine is Rated-R... so should you take your kids to see it like Ryan Reynolds did?
The previously family friendly franchise is getting a noticeably more adult entry.
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Since the moment Iron Man set off the MCU back in 2008, Marvel Studios has gone for a specific tone for all their films. There is violence, of course, but nothing graphic. Someone will occasionally swear, but it is usually fleeting and Steve Rodgers will usually tell them off after. They sometimes skirt the boundaries of PG-13 but have never delved fully into the realm R – until Deadpool & Wolverine, that is. Now that Deadpool has been brought into the MCU properly, parents might be wondering if Deadpool & Wolverine is as family-friendly as the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Judging solely on the rating for the movie, which includes “strong bloody violence and language throughout” along with “gore and sexual references,” it might not be the best idea to take your kids to see Deadpool & Wolverine, though that hasn’t stopped Ryan Reynolds from sitting down with his nine-year-old daughter to watch the movie. So if the daughter of Deadpool (that’s a movie we didn’t know we needed) was “laughing [her] guts out” at the adult jokes in Deadpool & Wolverine, does that mean your little mutant will enjoy it too?
Look, we’re not here to tell you how to raise your kids. If they watched the first two Deadpool movies and could handle the blood, gore, sexual acts with a stuffed unicorn, and language found within, chances are that they’ll spend the runtime of Deadpool & Wolverine enjoying themselves. If they couldn’t, then maybe give this one a miss. The thing about R-rated movies is that kids can’t go to see them on their own – parents are perfectly fine escorting their children to the cinemas if they want.
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