Unfortunately, after a strong introduction, he’s not given much to do.
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That’s right: Kick-Ass 2 morphs, for a time, into an update of Mean Girls, and a clever, if overly familiar, one at that.Īnd speaking of Cage, the stunt casting here finds a virtually unrecognisable Jim Carrey playing the most flamboyant addition to the group, the baseball bat-wielding Colonel Stars and Stripes. Forced to renounce her profane crime-fighting ways by the cop who took over as her guardian (Morris Chestnut) when her father (Nicolas Cage) was killed in the first film, she instead makes a concerted effort to run with the right crowd at school. Perhaps the most inspired theme woven into the proceedings by writer-director Jeff Wadlow belongs to franchise superstar Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz). There’s a reason Dave wonders in both films why nobody ever thought of donning a home-made hero costume before, and an equally strong reason why, by Kick-Ass 2, so many other citizens, young and old, have followed his lead. The creators of Kick-Ass understand this, and embrace the crudity as a way of both spoofing this trend and taking it to its logical extreme. They do increasingly silly things both online and in real time to stand out from the crowd of other kids in the same boat trying to validate their identities and make some noise.
That last is important, as in amongst the carnage and cursing that has so polarised critics and audiences alike are a pair of films about young people trying to do good in a world where the deck is stacked against them on all fronts. These are indeed comic book movies the way comic book movies should be made: loud, colourful, snarky to the point of obnoxiousness, hit-and-miss funny, and socially aware.įew can surpass these films for pure chutzpah
Thus, as far as guilty pleasures go in the cacophony of contemporary popular culture, few can surpass these films for pure chutzpah. But as the profane and proud of it sequel to the then-startling 2010 action comedy, Kick-Ass 2 continues, by virtue of the courage of its convictions, a franchise that is perhaps the closest in tone and attitude to the pure anarchic spirit at the heart of any great comic book. The moment is a typically heavy-handed grasp for a laugh, and is of course meant ironically.
The line comes as he and a rag-tag group of vigilantes known as Justice Forever prepare to do battle against the equally knockabout forces of evil assembled by good-guy-turned-evil-mastermind Chris D’Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who has changed his name from Red Mist to the easier to remember The Motherfucker. 'This isn’t a comic book," someone cautions the eponymous, bespoke teenaged hero of Kick-Ass 2, the hapless high schooler Dave Lizewski (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets, the world's first super villain, The Mother F%&*^r, assembles his. With no one left to turn to, Dave joins forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes. Unfortunately, when Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, she's forced to retire-leaving her to navigate the terrifying world of high-school mean girls on her own. With graduation looming and uncertain what to do, Dave decides to start the world's first superhero team with Mindy. When we last saw junior assassin Hit Girl and young vigilante Kick-Ass, they were trying to live as normal teenagers Mindy and Dave. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist - reborn as The Mother F%&*^r - only the blade-wielding Hit Girl can prevent their annihilation. Synopsis After Kick-Ass' insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes, our hero joins them on patrol.
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