Review: Kick-Ass 2
Kick Ass 2
By Steve Wood
THIS CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS
Let me preface this by saying that while I was a fan of the first film, it wasn’t due to the fact that a 10 year old girl was killing people in just about every scene that included her. After saying that, this movie is far less interesting by taking Hit Girl out of the equation for the first half. Instead, we get to know Mindy, an awkward 15 year old girl who has never experienced anything a girl of that age should.
Now we have Chris (formally Red Mist) who is still pissed off about the murder of his father, and will go to any length to kill Kick-Ass. Chris’ transformation to super villain (The Mother Fucker) is the best part, basically because he and his team (The Toxic Mega-Cunts) are ruthless killers, which makes Kick-Ass and his crew seem like pansies.
This brings me to Colonel Stars and Stripes, played by Jim Carrey, fans of the first film were surprised at this and excited at the same time. Sure, his role was decent, for all of the 15 minutes or so he was shown, but in the end, his role completely failed. From all the trailers and publicity Carrey had, I would have thought him to be much more of a major character.
The only redeeming factor here would have to be, of course, Hit Girl, even though most of the time she isn’t in her costume, she still manages to get some laughs and do some pretty nasty things to some teenaged girls. When she finally dons the famous costume towards the end, I was reminded what made the first film worth watching, even though I didn’t realize it at the time – she makes these movies work. Something about watching her kill random people is just fun.
The reason this movie failed for me is because we’ve seen this before. Until the first film, we haven’t seen these types of “super heroes”, but since we have by the time the sequel came out, there wasn’t anything special this time around. The violence was toned down almost 100% from the original, and that was a huge mistake, in my opinion. Sure, The Toxic Mega-Cunts dished out some violent stuff, it just wasn’t fun anymore.
Then there is the ending, which doesn’t make any sense. Hit-Girl decides to leave New York, yet she is only 15, has no parents, and no money, what exactly is she planning on doing? Kick-Ass also has no parents by the end of this, so he’s also screwed. The last scene gives some hints at a sequel, and I’d still be curious to check it out, but Hit-Girl would have to be a in it to draw any attention from me.
5/10
Peter
September 3, 2013 @ 10:45 pm
i agree
steve wood
September 3, 2013 @ 10:49 pm
I was watching it and I was like alright…nothing is really happening, and I thought I was Watching Mean Girls for a bit. Then there was that awful “scary movie” FX with the diarrhea gun…just ugh.
Peter
September 3, 2013 @ 11:28 pm
haha, i thought this movie was gonna turn into Carrie halfway thru
steve wood
September 4, 2013 @ 10:13 am
Kick Ass 2 needed a kick in the ass (he he) in order for it to work. When Super came out, the ante was raised 3 fold and this movie couldn’t keep up.
Oh well, both lead actors are going places.