Critic's Rating: 3.5/5
Cast: Jim Carrey, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Donald Faison
Direction: Jeff Wadlow
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes
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Story: Can
anyone become a superhero? It certainly seems so! Here, Kick-Ass teams
up with other vigilantes to form the crime-fighting Justice Forever
clan.
Review: Jeff Wadlow's follow-up to Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass (2010) attempts to penetrate deeper into the contrast between the wish-fulfillment of ordinary peopleliving out their fantasy versus living a 'regular' life. You have an almost surreal situation where ordinary folks wearing clown-like (pyjamas included) costumes dish out the kind of gore that looks quite nasty.
High-schooler Dave (Taylor-Johnson, alter-ego Kick-Ass) tries to convince Mindy (Chloe, playing Hit Girl) to train him. But she has her own issues -an over-protective dad, an identity crisis and fellow students who try to erode her self-esteem. Dave (often parodying Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker) is turned down by her. Not to be outdone, he finds himself a new team comprising Colonel Stars and Stripes (Carrey), Night Bitch (Lindy Booth), Dr. Gravity (Faison), Ass Kicker (Augustus Prew) and Battle Guy (Clark Duke).
The bad guy, Chris (Mintz-Plasse) blames Kick-Ass for his father's death, emerges in a new avatar called The Mother f**ker (the costume being his dead mom's S&M outfit and sex toys), recruits a bunch of 'heavy hitters' and seeks revenge. In one violent sequence, the ripped Mother Russia (Olga Kurkulina) feels the rage and shreds a bunch of cops using a powered lawnmower. Another involves Hit Girl paying cheeky homage to Kill Bill Vol 1's Yakuza battle scene.
Politically incorrect dialogues aside, Kick-Ass 2 is actually quite a fun ride. Beneath the deliberately ridiculous costumes and mock-serious dialogues lies a sea of brutality and gore gleefully topped off with the kind of language that would make a sailor blush. But violence aside, there's also the message about the real hero being the person behind the costume and not the accoutrements. Moretz gives a strong performance. All said and done, this movie definitely kicks ass.
Note: You may not like this film if you are put off by spoof flicks containing a lot of violence, bad language and sex jokes.
Review: Jeff Wadlow's follow-up to Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass (2010) attempts to penetrate deeper into the contrast between the wish-fulfillment of ordinary peopleliving out their fantasy versus living a 'regular' life. You have an almost surreal situation where ordinary folks wearing clown-like (pyjamas included) costumes dish out the kind of gore that looks quite nasty.
High-schooler Dave (Taylor-Johnson, alter-ego Kick-Ass) tries to convince Mindy (Chloe, playing Hit Girl) to train him. But she has her own issues -an over-protective dad, an identity crisis and fellow students who try to erode her self-esteem. Dave (often parodying Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker) is turned down by her. Not to be outdone, he finds himself a new team comprising Colonel Stars and Stripes (Carrey), Night Bitch (Lindy Booth), Dr. Gravity (Faison), Ass Kicker (Augustus Prew) and Battle Guy (Clark Duke).
The bad guy, Chris (Mintz-Plasse) blames Kick-Ass for his father's death, emerges in a new avatar called The Mother f**ker (the costume being his dead mom's S&M outfit and sex toys), recruits a bunch of 'heavy hitters' and seeks revenge. In one violent sequence, the ripped Mother Russia (Olga Kurkulina) feels the rage and shreds a bunch of cops using a powered lawnmower. Another involves Hit Girl paying cheeky homage to Kill Bill Vol 1's Yakuza battle scene.
Politically incorrect dialogues aside, Kick-Ass 2 is actually quite a fun ride. Beneath the deliberately ridiculous costumes and mock-serious dialogues lies a sea of brutality and gore gleefully topped off with the kind of language that would make a sailor blush. But violence aside, there's also the message about the real hero being the person behind the costume and not the accoutrements. Moretz gives a strong performance. All said and done, this movie definitely kicks ass.
Note: You may not like this film if you are put off by spoof flicks containing a lot of violence, bad language and sex jokes.
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