Ryan Reynolds is about to take back the anti-hero Deadpool in the PG-13 movie "Once Upon A Deadpool". (Photo: HECTOR RETAMAL, AFP / Getty Images)

Deck the halls with … Deadpool.

America's favorite "Merc with a Mouth" is back with a PG-13, child-friendly movie, "Once Upon a Deadpool", just in time for the holidays. And unlike the first two movies in the series (which are both rated R), "the only word F in this movie is Fred Aaron Savage," according to franchise star Ryan Reynolds.

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In a new trailer released by Fox Monday, Reynolds Deadpool tells an adult, Savage, a full version of his story, mimicking the format of "The Princess Bride," published in 1987, in which the former star actor played a sick child whose grandfather delivers.

"You're in a PG-13 version of" Deadpool "filtered through the lens of childlike innocence," says Deadpool to his new sidekick. "Nobody does childish innocence better than you, Fred."

Except that Savage is not so innocently stuck to a bed.

"This is not an abduction." I like to think that it's "an unsolicited site enhancement", "tweeted Reynolds with the trailer.

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"Once Upon a Deadpool" arrives in theaters on December 12 for a limited time.

Related: Spoilers! Ryan Reynolds discusses this hilarious scene of meta-credits in "Deadpool 2".

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