Reasons for Ratings

Comic book movies are all the rage right now.  After they worked out the kinks that were 'Daredevil', 'The Punisher', 'X3', and 'Spider Man 3', the movie studios got the right actors, the right directors, and the right screenplay writers.  The 'Avengers' universe has a film timeline that goes into 2020 I believe.  All the different movies will tie together.  It's a great way to get people into the movie theaters.  Even the 'X-Men' franchise is set up to go on for a while.  Which, to be honest, I'm more excited about than the other movies.  Mainly because it's not going to branch into a hundred other movie spin offs.  Then there's 'Deadpool'.  The actual comics are hilarious and graphic from what I'm told.  There is more swearing, more blood, and more well....everything.  It's everything that other comics aren't.  It's more adult.  And they made a movie recently.  And of course it's rated R because they wanted to be true to the comics.  And of course younger people wanted to see it because it's a comic book movie.  Even my eleven year old nephew said he wanted to see it.  We told my sister that it's an adult comic book movie.  Not that she wouldn't have checked it out before because she's insanely responsible when it comes to her kids.  

My wife and I went to see 'Deadpool'.  Ryan Reynolds is hilarious and is the perfect actor for the part.  One thing we were excited about was the fact that it was rated 'R' so we knew there wasn't going to be a bunch of annoying kids in the theater.  Well, you wouldn't think so because reasonable adults wouldn't bring their kids to see a movie that was made for adults.  And there weren't any kids in our particular theater.  There was a small group of teenagers that looked like they were in high school.  And they were all decked out in 'Deadpool' clothes so they knew what was going to be on screen.  It was funny.  There were just a ton of pop culture references.  He breaks the fourth wall which was amazing.  There was plenty of action.  And a set up for sequels!  

However, I have seen several posts on social media blasting parents that had brought younger (I'm talking eight to ten) kids to the movie and storming out.  They were expecting a typical comic book movie.  Some explosions, violence, or maybe the word damn or hell, maybe even shit.  I saw one, and I'm paraphrasing here, that said 'I wish I had known Deadpool was going to be an adult movie.  The theater should post something by the ticket counter!'  To which someone responded 'oh, you mean like the 'R' rating it has?'.  It was pretty funny.  

If, IF, you do decide to bring a teenager to this movie, be prepared to deal with, and maybe have to explain, the following:

• teabagging
• a montage of sex scenes spanning several holidays (seriously, it goes on for like five minutes)
• masturbation scenes
• strip clubs
• tons of swearing
• why he references the book 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' when he gets his hand cut off and blood splatters EVERYWHERE.  Actually, that could be a good jumping off point for you and your daughter(s) to have that talk....(sorry/not sorry)

and those are just the things that I remember seeing and thinking 'I wouldn't want my kid to see until they're in high school.'.  We were talking about it after we left the theater and were driving home, and thought that if you had a kid that was a sophomore or junior in high school, they could deal with everything that was in the movie.  Younger than that, and you are on that bad parenting fence where some would shame you for taking a kid to see it.  

But what do I know?  I don't have any kids.  Do whatever the fuck you want.  Scar your kids, I don't care.  But be ready to discuss things you might not be comfortable discussing at this particular time.  I mean, if I watch a movie with my parents and there's a sex scene, I still get uncomfortable.  And I'm in my mid-30s.  Imagine sitting next to your dad and there's like a five minute montage of all these different sex acts and positions.  Uncomfortable yet?