Marvel Deadpool and Wolverine The movie has captivated audiences around the world with its mix of action and R-rated comedy, making it one of the summer’s few outright blockbusters, but LGBTQ+ film critics haven’t been thrilled with it, criticizing it for including a number of gay jokes.
Deadpool and Wolverine Deadpool is rife with “gay panic” jokes that poke fun at its two male superhero protagonists, the spandex-clad Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and his muscle-bound sidekick Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). Because Deadpool’s sexuality has long been the subject of playful fan speculation (he’s “pansexual” in the comics), many viewers have interpreted these jokes as a kind of inside joke, taking the franchise’s vague gay innuendos to another, often raunchier, level.
Ryan Reynolds seemed to acknowledge as much when he posted a YouTube promo that was clearly a parody of cum facials.
Gay film critics aren’t laughing.
Parents Critic Guy Lodge led a parade of discontentHe condemned the film as “school-level homophobia.”
“Homosexuality is treated as a mere gag, neither fulfilled nor rectified by the film itself,” he writes.
“This is the kind of puerile schoolyard homophobia that’s barely ameliorated by Deadpool himself identifying as queer. At this point, maybe the next time Disney explores the character, they’ll take a more progressive approach.” few “Either bring attention to his pansexuality, or just have him have sex with Wolverine.”
Other gay critics also considered the gay jokes immature.
Joe Lipsett, a critic writing for Slash Film, a site dedicated to “queer” horror films, criticized the film’s “gay college frat jokes.”
I left Fantasia to go see Deadpool vs. Wolverine… and I wish I hadn’t.
It’s shockingly bad – from the CGI blood, the gay college frat jokes, the low stakes, to a terrible villain (poor Emma Corrin!).
It’s an absolute mess.https://t.co/jwDyKvGpL3— Joe Lipsett (@bstolemyremote) July 25, 2024
Other film critics were outraged by the film’s gay jokes.
Me when Deadpool makes a joke about being gay and getting canceled for it five times in a row
pic.twitter.com/EEtWOurG4E— Ethan 🔜 #TIFF24 ? (@notfunEman) July 27, 2024
I found it really annoying when Deadpool refers to gay people as “gay” in the new movie as if he’s not queer himself. I hate how his queerness is always treated as a joke and never taken seriously.
— Gwen Tschumi ⚰️ (@gizzverse) July 27, 2024
At the risk of moralizing too much, I think the film is sincerely homophobic, so I find the idea that people need to be more “normal” about the fact that in this cultural moment, general audiences really enjoy non-stop gay jokes extremely frustrating.
— Teru🏳️⚧️ (@EPM106) July 26, 2024
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