Ryan Reynolds’ ability to conjure laughs from pain is fantastic, but there are ethnic stereotypes here that need an upgradeToo soon? With Avengers: Infinity War still in cinemas, the world is hardly screaming out for another effects-laden saga of superheroes banding together to defeat a baddie played by Josh Brolin.
But Deadpool is in a different league – or at least a different age rating.
Where most superhero movies have gone family and broad, Deadpool went adult and rude, and revelled in the possibilities a UK 15 or Us R rating opened up in terms of “strong bloody violence”, “strong language” and “crude depictions of sexual acts”, to quote the British Board of Film Classification.
Not to mention a generation’s worth of pop-culture references only an older audience would appreciate.
The gamble paid off handsomely: Deadpool became the second highest grossing R-rated movie in Us history after The Passion of the Christ.
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