A Parent’s Guide To The Marvel Studios Movie

The rating criteria currently listed for “Deadpool 3” is in line with the previous two films. The first movie was rated R for “strong violence and language throughout, sexual content and graphic nudity,” and “Deadpool 2” received the same rating for “strong violence and language throughout, sexual references and brief drug material.” The only entry in the franchise that hasn’t gotten an R rating is the PG-13 re-release of “Deadpool 2,” which was retitled “Once Upon a Deadpool.” That version was rated for “intense sequences of violence and action, crude sexual content, language, thematic elements and brief drug material.”
“Deadpool & Wolverine” may ultimately not be what fans expect, but its rating criteria suggests that there won’t be any explicit sexual material other than jokes and some dialogue here and there. Foul language is also likely to run high, as Deadpool drops over 150 F-bombs over the first two movies. The violence is likely to be the biggest cause for parental concern. For the uninitiated, Deadpool doesn’t fight with a shield or big green fists. He uses guns and swords, and his battles are usually pretty gruesome, often in a darkly comedic way. It may not be anything worse than you’d see in a video game, but it’s certainly enough gore to justify the franchise’s traditional rating.
Wolverine appearing in another R-rated flick should also boost the fake blood use. His last such outing, 2017’s “Logan,” was the first in Fox’s X-Men franchise to treat the character’s claws as the visceral weapons they are. That trend is sure to continue in “Deadpool 3.”