Ryan Reynolds hides an edgy disclaimer for his edgy movie in latest Deadpool & Wolverine trailer
We get it, Ryan. The movie is going to be really sweary and take a bunch of shots at Disney/Marvel. You don't need to keep telling us.
Deadpool & Wolverine is going to be really fucking R-rated, you guys.
If you somehow didn’t get that from the fact that the movie’s tagline is literally “Let’s fucking go” or from the past two-plus years of marketing telling you exactly the same thing, you can now hear it once again in “disclaimer” form from Ryan Reynolds.
In the Twitter/X version of a new teaser for the movie, eagle-eyed fans spotted a tiny QR code that appears onscreen for a split second between Hugh Jackman’s legs, right at the 0:03 mark. (Shoutout to IGN for helping this very much not eagle-eyed writer spot it.)
The QR code leads to another video that was, of course, immediately posted online. In the clip, Reynolds offers a few quickly spoken warnings to “set the table correctly” for the film. The full list of super dangerous side effects is as follows:
This film is as paper thin as a sequel to Battlefield Earth. We’re mostly going to beat each other senseless, make enemies with Disney, tell a few dick jokes, make a few jokes at my expense, make a lot of jokes at Hugh’s expense, and completely sidestep Marvel’s mandated after-credits sequence, which if you haven’t figured it out yet, is always just a commercial for another movie which will invariably end with a commercial for another movie. So sit back, relax, let us lower your IQ and raise your heart rate while we travel to a vapid Dreamland, a place where grown men and grown women walk around in tights, and act like it’s not a giant cultural cry for help. This is cinema.
Look, we’re not trying to be total party poopers here. Deadpool & Wolverine will likely be more fun than anything else Marvel has put out recently, and this sort of gimmick might have worked if Reynolds genuinely went rogue or was taking any real shots at Disney. It loses a lot of its luster, however, when Marvel releases bits of it—specifically the “we’re mostly gonna make enemies with Disney” dig—as a part of the movie’s Bob Iger-approved marketing on their official YouTube channel. But hey, at least fans get to pretend Ryan Reynolds is above caving to things like the mandated Marvel post-credit sequence while they watch the multi-million dollar movie he made specifically for Marvel. At least the “cultural cry for help” part is spot on.