Nickelback have defended Deadpool & Wolverine against haters and “anyone thinking about even criticising the film.”
The Canadian rock band – comprised of Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger, Daniel Adair – took to their official social media accounts to share a video of them promoting the third instalment of the Deadpool film series and defending it from any kind of hate.
Dressed in Deadpool and Wolverine masks, frontman Chad Kroger says: “We’re Nickelback, experts in navigating irrational hate in the face of tremendous success. We have an important preemptive message for anyone thinking of criticizing the film Deadpool & Wolverine or Ryan Reynolds.”
The ‘How You Remind Me’ singer then goes on to list off the film franchise’s list of accomplishments, including that the first two Deadpool films grossed over $1.5 billion at the box office, and awards that the franchise has one such as two Critics Choice Awards, four MTV Movie & TV Awards, one GLAAD Award, a People’s Choice Award, two Teen Choice Awards and more.
Kroger then went on to add: “As for Mr. Ryan Reynolds, just look at this photograph. That is a beautiful Canadian man right there,” before a photo of the actor is shown while the band’s 2005 hit track ‘Photograph’ plays in the background.
Upon seeing the video while on E Talk, Reynolds responded with: “Oh my god, I mean come on. I love those guys.”
The band’s video follows the same format as the opening scene of 2018’s Once Upon A Deadpool in which Deadpool responds to the Marvel franchise being negatively compared to Nickelback.
“I’ve had it with all this Nickelback hating,” Deadpool said in the scene. “You think that makes you cool with the cool kids in school?”
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In a four-star review of Deadpool & Wolverine, NME shared: “Despite the A-list distractions (no spoilers here), Deadpool & Wolverine is really all about Reynolds and Jackman. In fact, it’s really all about Reynolds – with Jackman doing a heroic job of playing the surly straight man trying to keep up with Reynolds’ sweary killer clown. The first two Deadpool films were funny and violent and original, but this one shows Marvel’s most gloriously inappropriate superhero at his very best and worst.
“Where does the MCU go from here? With an endless loop of multiverse MacGuffins to fall back on, it can probably keep going as if none of this has happened. But if the superhero era really is finally starting to wind down, Deadpool & Wolverine will always be remembered as the film that started dancing on the grave first – to a Madonna song…”