There’s a distinct lack of narrative focus at work here. Meanwhile Chris D’Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) – still seething from the death of his crime lord father – has rebranded as The Motherfucker and vows revenge on Kick Ass, enlisting his own gaggle of villains and raising holy hell. Taking to the street, Kick Ass is joined by a cohort of superhero partners (including Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes) inspired by his antics whilst Hit Girl takes leave of the vigilante scene to do a spot of growing up, wandering onto the set of Mean Girls as she does so. He gets himself back in the game by commissioning the tutelage of Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz), who obliges, then promptly hangs up her own mask and leaves him to it. It’s a breathless opening movement, flying past like a third-act montage, which sees the freshly retired Kick Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) don the neoprene suit once again as the hero bug begins to bite. Whilst it’s not without a certain vulgar charm, Kick Ass 2 lacks the anarchic wit and sense of fun its predecessor had in spades. Wadlow takes on both the writing and directing duties here and you can’t help but feel he’s bitten of a touch more than he can chew. Though his role in Kick Ass 2 is by no means the largest, Carrey may have made a telling contribution to the narrative by spotting the oncoming iceberg. Happily for him, and sadly for the rest of us, it may have been an astute decision on his part to disassociate himself everything that follows.
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All said and done, this movie definitely kicks ass.It was well before kick-off when Jim Carey took to Twitter to rule himself out if this one, reasoning that he could no longer promote a film as violent and trigger-happy as Jeff Wadlow’s follow-up to Matthew Vaughn’s wonderfully brazen original. But violence aside, there's also the message about the real hero being the person behind the costume and not the accoutrements. 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. Politically incorrect dialogues aside, Kick-Ass 2 is actually quite a fun ride. Another involves Hit Girl paying cheeky homage to Kill Bill Vol 1's Yakuza battle scene. In one violent sequence, the ripped Mother Russia (Olga Kurkulina) feels the rage and shreds a bunch of cops using a powered lawnmower. 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. Gravity (Faison), Ass Kicker (Augustus Prew) and Battle Guy (Clark Duke). Not to be outdone, he finds himself a new team comprising Colonel Stars and Stripes (Carrey), Night Bitch (Lindy Booth), Dr. Dave (often parodying Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker) is turned down by her. But she has her own issues -an over-protective dad, an identity crisis and fellow students who try to erode her self-esteem. High-schooler Dave (Taylor-Johnson, alter-ego Kick-Ass) tries to convince Mindy (Chloë, playing Hit Girl) to train him. 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.
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 people living out their fantasy versus living a 'regular' life.
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.
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