‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Scores $50 Million Weekdays For $550 Million Box Office

You shut off the theater?

Deadpool is a meta mockery of comics and comic book movies. The entire thing is that he is making fun of the genre and reality. He makes jokes about the actor to make fun of the character the actor is playing. Deadpool references Reynolds' wife and both of their previous films, he makes fun of Wolverine by joking about Jackman gaining weight after his divorce, he makes fun of Fox because Disney owns them both now. So much of the humor depends on you knowing as much trivia as Deadpool and that makes the movies harder to watch.

He is a fan of the universe he is in because he is literally aware that he is a comic/movie character. The 4th wall breaking is him actually acknowledging the viewer, because he is aware of the viewer. There is a meta joke where everybody else in the movie sees Deadpool turn his head and make a comment as if there was a camera there that they can't see. To everyone else he seems absolutely insane, but he sort of isn't.

The potty mouth aspect is what it is, Deadpool is not a character for puritans and children. Deadpool is former special ops and a degenerate, both groups can fill a swear jar in a polite conversation. Deadpool and Wolverine fighting all the time is part of their relationship from the comics, they work out their differences/frustrations by trying to kill one another and they know they can't kill each other. It is friends or brothers roughhousing taken to the extreme. Their friendship is violence towards one another and on others done together.

To really get the most out of the franchise requires you to not care about cursing as anything more than a part of speech, you need to be a fan of dirty and dark humor, and you need to get most of the references. If that isn't you, you aren't the target audience and that is ok.

I loved the 3rd one the most. Every 10 minutes was another "holy shit" moment and they barely gave a refractory period a chance.

Why they make R-Rated movies where the comedy is clearly aimed at single-digit agers says a lot about the average level of humor in our societies.