Once upon a deadpool vs deadpool 2 reddit

‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ was not perfect by any means, but it was way better than it should of been and it has me more excited for the future of Marvel and Deadpool now. It also made the flaws of Deadpool 2 more evident.

Let me start this off by saying Deadpool 2 is my favorite of the 3 Deadpool movies (4 if you include the super duper cut). The reason why Deadpool 2 is my favorite is because it was the most comic-accurate Deadpool in terms of Wade Wilson being human. He had real emotion and it was great. The other reason is that Deadpool 1 seemed like it was strictly for shock value while making deadpool more like the internets version of Deadpool. It was still a good film that was funny but it wasn’t “my” Deadpool and that's ok. I don’t expect them to make a character identical to the comics, since characters change and evolve with time. Plus movies and humor are subjective.

When I heard Deadpool 2 would have a PG-13 version, I was intrigued but scared. I mean, how can they remove the violence, language and jokes? Well after watching ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ (twice) I am really surprised with how much of the movie still worked.

Let's look at the bad of it first though. They seriously dropped the ball with the beginning of the movie. The beginning was so choppy. They removed my favorite actions scenes, they removed the blood, they omitted the Logan joke and the cocaine joke (which they totally could of pushed for). These are problems that could've been handled better. The problem is they couldn’t reshoot the stuff and they didn’t plan the fight scenes around a PG-13. The rating wasn’t the main issue, it was the fact they had to work with pre-shot footage. They also played it VERY safe. PG-13 movies can have blood. Like a lot more than they showed. They also removed jokes that were totally ok like the mcrib joke and the prison wallet sound fx.

Let's get to why I loved the movie despite those flaws. Deadpool acted and talked more like Deadpool from the comics. He was more meta and his jokes weren’t reliant on swearing to be funny. He was more absurd and creative with his expletives. The bleeping was clever as hell and acted just like the swearing symbols in the comics. Some of the redone jokes were actually better in some cases too (though that is subjective) Overall it just felt more like Deadpool from the actual comics. This also made me so happy, since it means that Deadpool isn’t about a rating, but it's the character and the jokes. So many of the jokes in the original used profanity as a crutch. This is the flaw I never noticed with Deadpool 2. Seriously I never realized how much of Deadpool 1 and 2 were just sex jokes said differently with random nouns. There are times where I laughed even though it wasn’t funny or well written, but because he dropped some f-bombs. The problem with that is they wear off after and lose their impact after over-use. Once upon a Deadpool got creative with the censorship, which in itself if more clever than just crude humor.

If they announced a PG-13 Deadpool movie now, I don’t think I would be too upset. I think they would have much more blood and violence than ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ offered. It also wouldn’t be a disjointed film since they could film around the restrictions. They can take the restrictions and use them as a way to get more clever jokes. In fact, the jokes would have to rely on clever writing instead of the shock-value the movies seem to rely on. To be honest the movie got me hyped since there is a very real chance that Deadpool can appear in mainstream Marvel movies and the movie shows that he can work very well in a PG-13. Spiderpool can actually happen now.

Sorry for my writing style and thanks for reading!

TLDR; In some ways, Deadpool PG-13 is more like Deadpool than Deadpool.

EDIT: Sorry for the messed up grammar in the title

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Summary:

In an attempt to milk this franchise dry before the Great Mouse takes control of everything, Deadpool must kidnap Fred Savage in order to give him a PG-13 cut of Deadpool 2 that maybe will prove how lovable and family friendly the Merc with the Mouth could be.

Director:

David Leitch

Writers:

written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Ryan Reynolds

based on the comics by Rob Liefeld, Fabian Nicieza

Cast:

  • Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Baby Legs

  • Fred Savage as himself

  • Josh Brolin as Nathan Summers / Cable

  • Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlysle

  • Julian Dennison as Russell Collins / Firefist

  • Zazie Beetz as Neena Thurman / Domino

  • T.J. Miller as Weasel

  • Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead

  • Jack Kesy as Black Tom Cassidy

  • Stefan Kapičić as Colossus

  • Leslie Uggams as Blind Al

  • Karan Soni as Dopinder

  • Shioli Kutsuna as Yukio

  • Eddie Marsan as Orphanage Headmaster

  • Terry Crews as Bedlam

  • Lewis Tan as Shatterstar

  • Bill Skarsgård as Zeitgeist

  • Rob Delaney as Peter

  • Alan Tudyk as Redneck

  • Rhett Reese as News Helicopter Pilot

  • Paul Wernick as News Cameraman

  • Brad Pitt as Telford Porter / Vanisher

  • James McAvoy as Charles Xavier / Professor X

  • Evan Peters as Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver

  • Tye Sheridan as Scott Summers / Cyclops

  • Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy / Beast

  • Hugh Jackman as James Howlett / Logan / Wolverine

  • Juggernaut as himself


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What is the difference between Deadpool 2 and Once Upon a Deadpool?

Once Upon a Deadpool has been edited into a PG-13 film and includes a bunch of new footage, along with alternate takes and lines, plus segments of the original Deadpool 2 that have been simply dropped because they're too graphic.

Is Once Upon a Deadpool appropriate?

The MPAA rating has been assigned for “intense sequences of violence and action, crude sexual content, language, thematic elements and brief drug material.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes some sexual innuendo and obscured nudity, references to sexual abuse, many fight scenes that result in little blood and ...

Is Deadpool 2 on Disney plus?

Deadpool 2 is now streaming on Disney Plus.