Deadpool and Wolverine

Story

Wade Wilson, or Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), has always wanted to matter, to be someone, and to be worthy of his ex-girlfriend. But somehow he has always fallen painfully short.

Deadpool is working as a used car salesman and pretending to be happy with current life when he’s approached by Mr Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen), an agent at the TVA (Time Variance Authority). Deadpool believes that his dreams are about to come true and that he’s being recognised for his ability to make a difference. Instead, he’s being recruited because the TVA thinks he’ll make the immoral choice of choosing to live while his universe disintegrates and everyone he cares for dies.

Deadpool learns that the heroic death of ‘anchor being’ Logan, or Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), has ripped a hole in the timeline and is causing his universe to unravel. Deadpool thinks that if he can find another Wolverine to take the place of the one the world has lost, he can save his universe and make things right again. But Mr Paradox has taken control of a time variation machine and has other plans.

When Deadpool and Wolverine show up at the TVA, Mr Paradox casts them into a forgotten realm at the end of time, to which other superheroes and villains have also been banished. Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin), an evil and dangerous mutant with merciless and extraordinary powers, has risen to become leader of this desolate realm.

Determined to save his friends and his world before Mr Paradox can destroy it or Cassandra can destroy them, Deadpool will need to make an unlikely alliance with Wolverine. And they’ll need to stop at nothing to ensure that they make it back – and make a difference.

Themes

Alcoholism; guilt: violence as a way to solve conflict; mid-life crisis; regret, loneliness and worthlessness; being ignored, used or disregarded; desire for power and world domination

Violence

Deadpool & Wolverine has frequent and graphic violence. For example:

Deadpool gets very angry while exhuming Wolverine’s body from a grave. He breaks the shovel, bashing it against the ground.
Deadpool dismembers Wolverine’s corpse and uses the bones to smash through skulls, stab into chests and impale eyes. He kicks Wolverine’s disembodied skull. Teeth fly out of the skull as it flies through the air. Blood and skin literally fly off the bodies of the men whom Deadpool is attacking. He bashes a skull, stabs characters in the neck, chest and groin, and rips a head from a character’s neck.
A character is shot in the head.
A character says that he prays that ‘fire finishes the job that God never had the nuts to do’.
There is a reference to a character wanting to take his own life.
Deadpool’s ex-girlfriend tells him that her new boyfriend hasn’t gotten her shot yet.
An assassin rips the hair from a character’s head and then abducts him. The man is so terrified that he apparently soils himself.
Wolverine is stabbed.
Deadpool is thrown, pushed, stabbed, shoved and repeatedly threatened as he journeys through different timelines.
A character is stabbed through his bottom, and blades emerge from his genital area.
A character is hit in the head by a sword, while another character is shot in the chest.
A character smashes another character’s head, and Wolverine stabs Deadpool in the head.
There’s a reference to one Wolverine getting killed and another letting down an entire world.
Wolverine and Deadpool are both stabbed with what looks like a fiery poker.
A man is stabbed through the chest and genitals. Characters are often stabbed or impaled in the genitals.
Deadpool and Wolverine slash, hit, shoot and stab each other. Wolverine is stabbed through the neck with a sword and is impaled by 3 swords. Meanwhile Deadpool is stabbed through the chest and is about to have his head ripped off.
A superhero character blasts into flame and shoots at another character with fire. He loses power, lands crotch first on the side of a sign and falls down, smashing his neck against a metal beam and landing on his head.
A character’s head is chopped off.
A character has the skin ripped from his body. He stands momentarily as a pile of bloody bones before collapsing onto the ground in a nasty mess.
Wolverine is blasted underground and dragged under the dirt.
Cassandra puts her fingers through Deadpool’s skull.
Wolverine and Deadpool fight in a car. Blood spurts over both as Wolverine repeatedly bashes Deadpool headfirst into the console. They stab each other, shove and throw each other through the car roof, windows and windscreen, Wolverine bends Deadpool’s arm until it breaks, and Deadpool strangles Wolverine with a seatbelt. The pair continue to stab and bash each other, spraying blood over the inside and outside of the car, until they both collapse. Wolverine looks like he can’t move, and Deadpool is wrapped like a mummy in seatbelts.
Wolverine blames himself for the fact that his friends were killed because he wasn’t there to protect them.
A rocket launcher is used to blast through a gate. There’s a fight scene in which multiple characters try to kill each other with, knives, guns, swords and so on.
Magical cards kill men and blow them up.
A creepy man with a snake-like tongue is strangled.
Wolverine says that he wanted to stop killing in revenge but he couldn’t. He kept killing people, including innocent people.
A character says, ‘I am going to boil your brains’.
Cassandra is repeatedly shot in the chest.
Cassandra says that she killed an amateur magician and brags about ‘wearing his skin for 4 days’.
Many characters are stabbed through the chest and back during an epic fight in a wasteland.
A variant Deadpool is repeatedly shot in the back and chest. Deadpool uses this variant as a human shield. Blood gushes out of the variant’s mouth as he tries to confess that he doesn’t regenerate. Deadpool promises him that he’ll be OK as a bullet shoots the variant in the head and his brains are blasted all over Deadpool’s face. Deadpool tries to do CPR as blood gushes from numerous bullet holes in the variant and spurts from his severed neck arteries.
Deadpool and Wolverine must fight an army of variant Deadpools to get into a subway system. They stab, kick, impale, blast and bludgeon their way through, with severed body parts falling onto the ground. Blood splatters everywhere as numerous characters are violently killed on a bus.
Cassandra tries to control the time machine and is trying to destroy the universe while Wolverine and Deadpool try to stop her. All look like they’re being torn apart by the pull of energy surrounding the machine. Cassandra seems to explode in the process, while both Wolverine and Deadpool also disappear and initially seem to be dead. They reappear later.
There’s a reference to someone wanting to urinate on another character’s barbequed corpse.

Sexual references

Deadpool & Wolverine has some sexual references. For example:

Deadpool does some sexy dance moves with a hip thrust and then grabs his crotch.
Deadpool notes that he is ‘soaking wet right now’ and that he ‘detects a whiff of necrophilia’.
A character describes ‘smashterbating’. This involves hulk hands pounding the ‘midsection’.
Deadpool tells a young child that he doesn’t have a lot of vaginal sex.
A man’s penis is referred to as his Van Johnson.
There’s s reference to menopause.
Deadpool mentions kissing a bunch of men and tells them he has ‘never been a natural bottom’.
While Deadpool is being fitted for his costume, the tailor repeatedly grabs his crotch and touches his bottom. Deadpool tells Mr Paradox that his tailor is a predator but that he appreciates that the suits don’t give him ‘camel toe’.
Deadpool tells a man that he can see his ‘pants are getting tight’ because Deadpool looks so hot in his new costume.
A character asks Deadpool and Wolverine if they are ‘going to fuck or fight?’
Deadpool says, ‘Get your special socks out, nerds. It’s going to get good’.
A character says, ‘It’s like Pinocchio stabbed his face in my ass’.
Deadpool lands on Wolverine and tells him that before he can get off him, he must get his knife out of his buttocks.
Deadpool and Wolverine are tied up and pressed closely together in a net. Wolverine tells Deadpool that ‘not all of you was asleep’.
Deadpool tells a character, ‘Your fingers are inside me but not in a good way’.
A character mentions that he has had several STDs.
Deadpool admits, ‘They don’t call me … the blowjob queen of Saskatoon’.
A man in a Deadpool costume has extra material to his crotch area, substantially enlarging his groin.
There’s a reference to a stripper and how Wolverine couldn’t save her.
A character says, ‘When I want your opinion, I will take Wolverine’s dick out of your mouth’.
Deadpool asks Wolverine, ‘What is the wind resistance on your blowjob handles?’
Deadpool says to a bare-chested Wolverine, Put your greasy tits away, you slut’.
A character says, ‘I want to show you something huge’. Deadpool replies, ‘That’s what camp master Kevin used to say’.
A character is described as shaking like an angry vibrator.
Deadpool says, ‘I didn’t know my daddy, but I shot out of his dick’.

Alcohol, drugs and other substances

Deadpool & Wolverine shows some use of substances. For example:

Wolverine drinks at a bar. He stands up and then drinks an entire bottle of whisky.
Wolverine drinks shots of hand sanitiser and rubbing alcohol.
Wolverine gargles with alcohol.
A character asks Deadpool for cocaine, calling it numerous other things in the process.
Wolverine shares a story about how he was so drunk that he stumbled home and realised that everyone he loved had been killed.
Deadpool says they’re prohibited from using cocaine on camera.
Wolverine drinks heavily several times.

Nudity and sexual activity

Deadpool & Wolverine has some nudity and sexual activity. For example:

A man bares his chest, showing that both nipples have been pierced. The hoops attached to the nipples are connected to a chain that appears to be attached to his penis. He encourages another character to gently tug the chain and reacts to the touch.
There’s a creepy, deranged-looking dog with a very long tongue that hangs out the side of its mouth. It’s always trying to get its tongue into and around Deadpool’s mouth.
Wolverine is shown with a bare chest, and there’s a close-up of his finely chiselled abs. A man ogles him.

Product placement

The following products are displayed or used in Deadpool & Wolverine:

The Honda Odyssey is taken for a test drive and its features highlighted.
Kia Carnival is used and mentioned by name.
Characters eat Spam, and the cans are clearly displayed.
Disney, Fox and Marvel are repeatedly mentioned. There is a ruined 20th Century Fox sign partially buried in the ground.
Deadpool performs a Back Street Boys dance sequence to one of their songs while killing numerous characters.
Wolverine drinks a bottle of Jim Bean.
The Avengers and the X-Men are repeatedly referred to.
Minions and the movie The Proposal are mentioned.
The Amazon Fire Phone is mentioned.

Coarse language

Deadpool & Wolverine has frequent and extremely coarse language, insults and name-calling.

Ideas to discuss with your children

Deadpool & Wolverine is an action-packed adventure comedy based on the popular comic book characters with the same names. The movie is the latest release from Marvel Studios and boasts an all-star cast with numerous cameo appearances, excellent special effects and a couple of well-timed and choreographed pop music fight scenes.

Because of its frequent and extremely coarse language, gory violence and explicit sexual references, Deadpool & Wolverine is best suited to adult audiences.

These are the main messages from Deadpool & Wolverine:

Everyone needs to feel important somehow.
There are many ways to prove your worth.
Sometimes the people you save end up also saving you.

Values in Deadpool & Wolverine that you could reinforce with your children include teamwork, courage, sacrifice, determination and compassion.

Deadpool & Wolverine could also give you the chance to talk with your children about real-life issues like:

using violence to solve problems
blaming yourself for things beyond your control
using alcohol to escape reality
lying or deceiving others
pursuing power or your own goals without thinking about the consequences.