There is almost no gore, certainly no sex or nudity, but there is plenty of profanity and copious (jestful) references to pedophilia. This “family-friendly” cut does serve as an interesting example of what the MPAA will or will not tolerate in terms of securing a PG-13 rating. And the edits make the sequences harder to follow. They pale in comparison to, for example, James Wan’s PG-13 punishing submarine fight sequence that opens Aquaman. Absent the R-rated gore, the fight scenes in Deadpool 2 feel lightweight and lacking in intensity. Think Patrick Hughes' The Expendables 3, which features all of the mayhem of the first two movies but without blood and gore that would make it into an R-rated movie. If Deadpool 2 were intended to be PG-13, I’d wager that the action scenes would have been constructed as such, presumably with the option of adding CGI blood in postproduction. First off, David Leitch’s complex action sequences are edited into a hyper-edited mess.
Nonetheless, this version of the movie fails in that regard as well.
Absent the interludes (more on that in a moment) which exist purely to entice repeat domestic viewership, Once Upon a Deadpool exists as a theoretical “What if Deadpool 2 were PG-13?” test run specifically for territories like China that might be inclined to play a less vulgar and violent version of the smash superhero franchise. That figure single-handedly pushed Venom past the $763m and $734m global totals of Deadpool and Deadpool 2, and I imagine Fox/Disney would like at least some of that money if possible. That major marketplace, which is going to become the biggest moviegoing marketplace in the world in the very near future, did play the PG-13 Venom to an estimated final gross of $270 million.
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