Over Valentine’s Day weekend, the new superhero film “Deadpool” reached some pretty high box office numbers, earning $152 million in four days (then a record-setting $11 million more this Tuesday) — higher than the projected $150 million. This shattered records. The movie is now the biggest R-rated opening in history, it lifted the box office to have its biggest ever opening in February, and it led to the biggest President’s Day four-day weekend, too.
But there’s a problem here. Deadpool is far from the typical superhero movie we’ve come to expect in the last five or so years. Forget what you know about the Captain America, Iron Man and Thor films. “Deadpool” — a production of 21st Century Fox, which also produces the X-Men movies — is littered with profanity, sexually explicit material and “foul-mouthed”characters.
This hasn’t sat well with some reviewers. Will Leitch of The New Republic called the movie “obnoxious and puerile and infantile and has an irritating meta tone so snide that it's constantly in danger of nullifying the entire movie.” Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said the movie “is bad, borderline garbage, but disturbing, too, in that it's just the kind of fake-clever awfulness that might be cinema's future.” And Stephen Whitty of the Newark Star-Ledger said though the film is fun, “it's not for everyone, and definitely not for families.” It’s even been banned in China for nudity and graphic violence.
It also seemed to knock against the Marvel brand, which is owned by — and associated with — Disney, known for making and promoting family-friendly content.
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I saw it and really liked it. But no, I wouldn't recommend taking kids to see it. It's sort of like Mad magazine and Penthouse magazine came together to do a Marvel comic movie on a ten day amphetamine bender.
I took my 14 yo daughter and her friend to see it yesterday. We thought it was a good superhero movie, with a unique comedic twist. It's nothing worse than what they hear in high school or on the web.
Comics for adults no wonder America is failing adult's act like children.
Duh that's why it's rated R children aren't supposed to go to R rated movies
Not for teenagers. Really you think it's okay to take 14 year old girls to see sex scenes and stripper scenes?
11:26. And that makes it ok to take your daughter to? Parenting should be above the web and schools. There is no way I would sit with my teen child while the f word was said 65 times and mf 12 plus times. Full frontal nudity and extended sex scenes.....really?
Happy International Women's Day was not a scene I'd want my 14 year old to see. No....no, no.
You knew what kind of movie you were going to see when you went. Most comics are for adults. But they changed them into versions so kids could see the movies. But since more adults are interested they will be making more R rated movies. It's entertainment...not to be some life altering learning experience.
119 you should be ARRESTED for taking a minor to a rated R movie. Smh.
R rated comic movies that parents take their kids to see and coloring books for adults. This country is just fine. Yep...fine.
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